Oh poop! I just wrote you a hugely long and philosophical post pondering the meaning of life and it's convoluted paths .... and then somehow I obliterated it .... the post, not the meaning of life and it's convoluted paths

I think perhaps the universe intervened and wiped my post out as it was on reflection probably twaddle, and when I say "probably" you could substitute "almost certainly" and the thought would then be more honest
Suffice to say, I am still in the land of the living. Life is ..... well, it's as it is. I survive. I'm not Gloria Gaynor though, I never could get the hang of roller skates.
Sorry to read that things haven't been running smoothly out there for all of you, but I hope that things get better! I'm pretty sure that we deserve a time of plain sailing for each of us!
I shall be back and if you are unlucky you will get to read some of the philosophising of ChairmanPlum! except that that probably should be ChairpersonPlum to be politically and technically correct .... although not totally specific as in that case it would be ChairwomanPlum .... although "woman" doesn't sound quite as nice a word as "lady" which would then make me ChairladyPlum but that has the problem of making me think of char lady .... cleaning is not my forte!
Perhaps I better quit now before I addle your brains