Time for me to pop up again, I guess. I'm back in the US. However, the day after I returned, my father gave in to a long battle with cancer and died. I had gone home in May to help take care of him, as he was bedridden and unable to care for himself. I asked the military to cancel my travels so I could help him get set up with the care he needed, but they declined. So I spent roughly 24 hours traveling to get home, and woke up the next morning to news he was gone. On the
same day I was informed of the death of my father, someone very close to me surrendered to a personality disorder and has caused quite serious damage. Concurrent with those two things, I started an accelerated master's degree program that was scheduled before I left on my travels. I am frankly in over my head with real life issues at the moment.
This may be more information than is typically shared in a general modeling forum, but I thought you should know. I still have a passion for modeling, but unfortunately I have other things demanding my time. I shared the passwords for administrative control of the entire site to Massimo some time ago and so he has more or less full control of the site. Please, do continue the "farcical efforts" of this "amateurish, half-baked and thoroughly unconvincing extant site", if for no other reason than to keep E.P.'s own personality disorder fires alight for all to see.
If Massimo should decide on taking on some help for the management of the site, that would be fine. In the meantime, I will make sure the lights stay on here, so no worries there. I can still pay the bills.
I do hope to change things for the better, and soon. Believe me when I say I would MUCH rather be quietly passing time at the workbench than dealing with what's currently on my table. In the meantime, model on good people!
