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After an almost 4 month hiatus, I'm finally back to article writing. The last 4 months have been something of a nightmare turned reality, starting the week before Easter. Part of the hiatus involved my mother being diagnosed with heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. She's doing much better now, but it didn't look good for a while. First time diagnosis (at 89) for her, she hates going to the doctor, even though she used to be an OR nurse! Perhaps because she has been a nurse!
The other part of the hiatus involves me personally, and I'm happy to share, but you'll have to email me directly as the content is not really lounge appropriate (that'll raise some eyebrows!)
I consider everyone here to be part of my larger "digital community", and through the last 4 months I have also been graced with amazing community support where I live. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to be surrounded by loving friends during times of crisis. To paraphrase a cliche, keep your friends close and the crazies far, far away, in another galaxy.
While the emotional healing continues, I feel like I've finally regained enough of a foundation to stand on and start letting the creative juices flow again. I've really missed that!
Thanks for reading and thanks to Code Project for creating the connections to the people here that I relied on for some stability amidst all the turmoil, even though ya'll didn't know it.
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Welcome back, look forward to your pearls of wisdom.
As Hoppy (or was it Roy?) used to say: happy trails. 
Lou
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am the meanest S.O.B. in the valley"
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Glad to hear your mother is doing better, always a scare when a loved one gets an unfavorable diagnosis.
Hope everything else works itself out and life returns to an equilibrium for you.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Welcome back!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Happy to hear your mother got better... We can wait for an other article a bit longer if that helps...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Welcome back Marc, glad to hear that your mother is doing well. I'd like to think I helped.
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Happy for you. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hi Marc, I'm going through a similar situation with my mother (88) so I know how it must be, keep the faith
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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89, tough old bird then, here's hoping to a return to health.
I look forward to a healthy flow of rants and articles. Marc the level of respect and appreciation you have achieved in this community is equaled by very few, thank you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I will not pry. I'll just say it's great to have you back in the saddle.
We're an email away if you ever need anything. And that's a pretty broad "anything".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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welcome back
diligent hands rule....
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So I'm working on this WCF service and I need to add Basic Authentication.
Search on the big wide internet and I find a question. On CodeProject. From myself in 2016.
Answered by myself a day later in 2016 
Thanks me, I can always count on you
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Yeah, I've done similar.
Need a way to do something, google it, and the first result is an article on CP about exactly that. Written by me two years ago ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had the same, but that's bad.
Apparently you were once an expert in that area, but you forgot you even knew
I know I had the same problem some years ago and that it wasn't easy, that's why I decided to Google it right away
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Sander Rossel wrote: I had the same problem some years ago and that it wasn't easy, that's why I decided to Google it right away
This is the sign of a true master, and not a low-level rock star developer!
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Discovered that it has caused a very critical bug 3 years later in July 2019 by your self.
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I don't work for that company where I wrote that code anymore...
So who knows 
I recently visited an ex-employer who was working on some code I wrote years ago that now completely froze up the application.
I told them I was glad they were the ones who had to sort it out
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Sander Rossel wrote: Thanks me, I can always count on you
Well, if you can't, who will...?
I've done the same thing. Only, I've found my question, but it still had no answer years later...
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Obligatory XKCD[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had a similar, but less helpful, experience when I was working for a large British Airline that will remain nameless.
I called the Technical Help Desk and asked about a particular system feature and was directed to call the person who "knows most about it in the company", me!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's brilliant
Especially if you have no idea and the phone next to you starts to ring and you pick up and hear yourself (please tell me it was like that)
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Almost. I received a message on one of my pagers (I had to carry two identical pagers, for two systems I supported, but with the same message tone. I was constantly checking the wrong one first.) to call a particular number... guess who's number that was! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hi All,
It's the day in which in NASA launched for the moon, I would have thought Bob would be happy there was the start of a program to reunite him to his brothers... For the landing give Bob a Helmet at least!
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