Alright, I owe everyone an update on the situation.  I'm almost a month behind the end date for the contest I haven't had much opportunity to let people know what's going on.

First off, as of April I'm employed full-time again.  I've got a job downtown (in D.C.) - it's fairly high level but the commute is horrible.  Takes about an hour and a half to get in, so that's 3 hours I'm spending in the car, plus 9 or 10 hours a day at the office.  Then I come home, eat dinner, and do some more work from home.

Still, everyone works and that by itself wouldn't have been an issue, but the other thing that has kept me from updating is that in the past six weeks I've been to 3 different doctors and the emergency room for debilitating back pain.  I haven't gotten a final answer as to why yet, but it seems like the best guess is one or more herniated disks in my spine.  I've been on heavy duty pain killers while I wait for the results of the MRI, but I'm not moving around much.  I'm really hoping to get this figured out and behind me as soon as possible, hopefully without surgery (though I'll take it if it will fix the problem).