In case anyone was wondering why I seem a bit distant lately, it's just that renovating has been beating the crap out of me. We're trying to flip a house that until recently was also a storage unit for the immense amount of crap my parents have been hauling around for a while, and every part of me is sore. Plus, I'm trying to stave off a tendency of mine to sort of just never make any attempts to stay connected to people.