If you think you might want to follow Eric's great advice, alexhawk posted in the Forum that he is going to be at PS Weekend this year. He also posted that he is going to be staying at the InnDulge from Thurs to Sunday night.
Do the same thing that my sister who always hosts Thanksgiving does. She sends an email around to the family telling everybody that they are not to speak about politics. It works and makes digestion much easier. Here I would trade a good ol' barebutt fuck for not talking about the merits of NAFTA.
Please say "hello" for me. I PM'd once, not wanting to intrude because I know that he was going through something. However, I did not hear back so I thought I would just hold off until he signed back on. I think we all miss him.
I heard a great quote the other day.
"I hate all this gender fluidity. I miss the days when straights was straight, gays were gay, and bis were lying."