I'd forgotten my password, as I used to stay logged in all the time. For a long while, I didn't know how to request the administrator to reset my password, until just recently.
In addition to that, I changed jobs at my current workplace, back in March, and have been putting in long hours at work. Add to that, that my M-I-L is 90 and living with us, + she has a 92 year old sister, who lives about 2 hours from us, and although she lives by herself, she is in somewhat declining health, and that hasn't left much time for trains, or being active on this forum. Additionally, the last couple of years, with a new house, myself and my wife have spent a lot of money on our house and property, which has included running up some bills on my credit card, and this year, I've tried to cut back my spending, to reduce the amount of debt I/we have.
Over the last couple of years, I've had some conflicting feelings about which scale to focus my modeling efforts in. I started out with Lionel 027 as a young child, and was switched to HO as a kid by my parents, 'due to space limitations,' HO has been it for me since I was about 10 years old, although I continued to occasionally bring out the O trains, and after I graduated from college, debated about switching to N scale. Since dating my wife and getting married about 5 years ago, she's taken to the larger O trains, which I've spent a decent amount of money on. I've been torn between creating my dream layout, the Philly & Scranton, which I've posted about in the Layout Construction pages about, or 'switching' to O, as between the difficulties several HO manufacturers have had over the last couple of years, rising prices of HO supplies vs O prices holding steady, getting older, in some ways generally liking the larger models better, I've been torn between which scale to focus on.
I can relate to many of the other comments made here.
, I was counting on that.