I'm just copy-pasting this on everything I'm a part of, but:

I'm so sorry I've been gone/inactive for so long! to put a long story short, a lot of things have come up in a very short period of time in terms of real life issues that needed to be dealt with and I've had to put my time here on hold. things are starting to calm down now, however, so I should be able to get myself back up to speed quickly.

thanks, and sorry again!