A friend alerted me to this thread topic yesterday and I had a sliver of time to say:
1. With Masters ending, necessary revision, presentation in the summer all dovetailing with my need to get caddying full bore I abandoned most pleasures, such as the board.
2. I was lucky enough to get an adjunct professors post at a community college while caddying still had 45 days of life left in the season
3. I was lucky enough to secure a small contract to write a club history for one of the clubs for whom I have enjoyed a long work-caddying relationship, when looping ended that took up that half of the time.
4. Unfortunately, my communiques with TEP also stagnated in early May as I found only 25 hours in the day. Once I put the Club History to substantial completion I may be able to resume a forum with him on some of the germane issues of economy, club sets and GCA that we had hoped to explore.
I hope that my many correspondents, well-wishers, and "combatants" do not feel abandoned or attribute my absence to a lack of sustained interest in the milieu - I'm just too poor and too hectored by economy to devote the time to a meaningful post. But I suspect everyone slept well in the nights since (except perhaps Election Night).
I am Vinnie Kmetz
hope to rejoin meaningfully later in the winter
cheers
vk