In which I return to send my love to a friend

My goodness, it's so easy to stop doing something, and then find ways to avoid starting again.

BUT, since I shamefully allowed my friend Day Break's birthday to pass unremarked on [date redacted] (which, really, wasn't all THAT long ago), I shall attempt to curry favor by returning after my long absence to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY [name redacted]!  I hope enjoyed your [number redacted] orbit about our Sun.

I hope you celebrated the day with friends and family, and that you did something fun in [city/town redacted].

Who, me?

I plan to go back and fill in some retroactive news over the past 10 months, since last I posted, but here are few key notes:

1) Mom is home again, and happier, and slowly getting stronger.

2) Opening a comic book/game store is really hard work.

3) I may be evolving into a romantic relationship with an old friend, Miss Hannah-Belle Goulet, a woman I have known for many years.  I'm not plunging into it, I'm not smitten, but I am definitely interested and it feels... homey.  Too early to make too much of it.  She has kids, an ex about whom the less I say the better, a home 100 miles away, and I'm not sure if she sees it the same way.  But she and her kids just stayed overnight yesterday, and it was fun.

4) The process of making my home what I want continues, not as quickly as I would like.  The root of the problem is that I'm truly bad at budgeting my funds, something I should learn to do before I do myself a real mischief.

5) Man, I really like playing games with my friends.  I'm still playing Deadlands, I've added a 13th Age organized play campaign on Tuesdays, a Star Wars Edge Of The Empire game on Wednesdays, and I'm looking for more.  Pity I can't find a game that involves regular cardio workouts. :P