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After a two week hiatus, I finally had an opportunity to catch up on some of the more important forum threads. I want to assure our members that we are still here, but real life has thrown many of us several curve balls over the past few months. Kyle is super-busy with a new job that pretty much has him exhausted at the end of the day. Emulated switched jobs. LightWarriorK has been busy nesting with his fiancé in a new home; and those are only the ones I know about. As far as the rest of us, it’s most likely school, work, family, or a combination thereof.

As some of you may have heard, my mother passed away at the beginning of the month. While it was no surprise and more of a matter of “when” rather than “if”, it was still a very stressing time. I have to praise Hospice for all the great work and support they provided to ensure that my mother’s quality of life was as best as it could be during the last few weeks of her life. Needless to say, coupled with my brother’s passing almost a year ago, it still has hit the family hard. I just hope that I don’t fill in the trifecta next year around the same time

Having been my mother’s primary caregiver for the past two years took its toll on me, my job, and my wife. Fortunately, none of the damage is permanent; but still, there is a lot of work to get back to a normal life, which includes Veterancraft.

That said, we are still in a holding pattern waiting for a viable Craftbukkit replacement solution to appear. Mind you, I have been out of the loop for most of this month, so one of my first goals is to update my understanding and get a better feel as to when we can expect a viable solution. Our two primary contenders are Sponge and Spigot. Last I knew, there were promises that one or both were going to offer a solution sometime this month.

Regardless of which solution we adopt, there will be a ton of work to make it a smooth transition. We have a lot of improvements waiting in the wings, but without a clear direction as to which way the wind will blow, development has stalled and they sit idle for now. Like I said, I won’t know more until I have had a chance to get a better feel for where things are. Hopefully, I will be surprised and see a light at the end of tunnel that it isn’t a train