[To my dear friends in and out of SL: thanks, for all your love and kindness. ]

Over 3 months without a post, and it feels like longer. It’s been a busy time, but for one reason and another it’s been hard to sit down and do an entry here. The biggest news, I suppose, is that health issues in RL have had a significant impact on my SL self. My racing season went downhill in a big way starting in January, when I lost a good deal of hand dexterity and sensation and also quite a lot of time, in hospital and unable to practice. Not the way I wanted to end my MotoSL season, certainly. And I never imagined it would actually mean bowing out of RaceSL competition completely, but that’s been the upshot. So for now I’m an ex-racer, but I’ll continue to be involved in the racing scene, with some sort of series management duties to be determined. And maybe by the time MotoSL4 comes around, I’ll be back in the saddle again.

In the meantime, I’ve found that all those hours I’m not spending at the track looking for a tenth of a second to shave off my lap times are actually pretty useful for getting other things done. I’ve got some interesting new building projects to talk about, so stick around, and I promise the next post won’t take 3 months to appear here.