My impression of our community is that its average age is between 40-60 and that, to be honest, many of us are no longer healthy in all aspects. I'm 52 and also have a handicap since recently. From an objective pov, our knowledge of vfp and the still supported applications should be transfered to younger people. OTOH, the idea that we can be missed is not really appealing, esp. if one is a consultant. Dilemma.

Anyway, good to have you here still among us. Also, because you are such a pleasant person to talk with.

>Folks,
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>I have been more active here in tha last couple of weeks than I have been for a while. More than one person has asked what I've been up to and why I haven't been around. I thought the easiest way to answer would be to start this thread in chatter and give you some of the details.
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>A few years back I took a full time employment position with eMedicine.com, Inc. and changed from independent consulting. That put a major crimp in my "free" time to spend on the forums. Working 10-12 hour days did not leave a lot of time to surf. So I became scarse. I still lorked a lot but didn't spend time responding to questions.
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>At eMedicine I am working heavily with VFP, .NET, ASP, and a bunch of other technologies building and supporting the software that runs a company that authors and publishes medical content on the net and hand held devices.
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>In 2003 I had major heart surgery which put me out of commission for a few months. This caused me to alter my travel activities so I stopped hitting most of the conferences and was spending more time at home with my family. I still work for eMedicine full time and am becoming physically more healthy.
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>Recently I have started to spend more time here on the UT and on the fox wiki, mostly reading and lurking but occasionaly responding when I have something to say. I expect to be around more than I have been from now on.
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>So that's the short and sweet version of what has been happening to me oveer the last few years.