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[Blastback]

Shingles took some of the sight in my left eye.
been fighting that for a whole year. kinda hard to read and write now.

**** man, that sucks.

I've always been an on and off member for years, get caught up with life etc. Did have a fun trip to Yellowstone last year. Soooo many grizzly bears. And wolf puppies.

Sounds like you had fun.

Yeah it was beyond great. Sadly I really needed it, health scare a few months earlier (I'm fine it was a false alarm) and the same day that happened I found out that one of my best friends for 23 years had committed suicide... Still struggling with that.

[Just Negare]

Some of you lot have had it pretty rough, hope things are improving for you fellas!

I've just had work and adult stuff cutting into my free time. I do tend to lurk the forums and basically read the TFer news when published here.

[Ironhidensh]

The back to back combinations of Trump vs. Hillary, then the four year shitshow of trump, then Corona basically burned me out of social media and the 'net in general. I took a massive step back. Its been great for my stress and real life relationships.

Also, my youngest son has borderline special needs. Extreme ADHD and emotional processing disorder makes a massive requirement of my time (and damn near destroyed my marriage, US big pharma can eat a giant back of goat genitals) so I've been quite focused on all that happy adult ****.

Not to mention, my love for my fandoms has been plummeting in the wake of creative directions I just don't care for.

The Transformer movies have burned me out. Bumblebee was good, but Rise of the Beasts was another dumpster fire. The IDW comics ended, and I just can't get into the new one. I'm only interested in the G1 styled toys. My kids never got into Transformers, so its not something I can share with them.

On the Star Wars front, well, need I say anything? Disney seems bound and determined to bury it in the ground. Honestly though, when they killed the EU, I never really got over it.

So yeah. I lurk. I read some news here and there, but I don't really post anymore. I've all but abandoned Facebook and Twitter. I read a lot nowadays, and just hang out with my family.