Greetings, earthlings

[Ben Wing]

thanks for the update.  very sorry to hear of your sufferings; pain 
really sucks.

the next few weeks should have lots of activity.  Stephen will be 
merging his xft work, Marcus Crestani will be merging his incremental 
garbage collector, and with luck i'll be merging my unicode-internal 
workspace.  luckily, there is hardly any overlap (and none with your 
bignum work), except that a bunch of structures (specifically, anything 
containing lisp objects) need to be converted into proper lisp objects 
in order for Marcus's GC to work.  this is something you could help 
with; although Marcus has done a good chunk of the work, there is still 
much to do.

ben

Jerry James wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I figured it was about time I showed my face again.  I'm sorry for the
>long delay, but things did not go quite as planned around here.  We
>arrived in Logan, Utah on June 1st, as planned.  However, not as
>planned, the truck containing all our junk, er, stuff, did not show up
>until June 3rd due to a sudden illness on the part of the driver.  We
>also got snow that first week we were here, making the whole thing a
>rather surreal experience.
>
>On June 16, I made a Wal-Mart run (because you *need* tons of stuff from
>Wal-Mart after moving a family of 6 cross-country).  A light up ahead
>turned red, the people in front of me stopped, so it seemed like a good
>idea at the time for me to stop, too.  Unfortunately, the guy behind me
>didn't think that stopping was such a great idea.  Witnesses said that
>his brake lights never came on.  I was doing 0 MPH.  He hit me doing an
>estimated 40 MPH.  (It turns out that he was reading a piece of paper
>lying on his passenger seat, rather than watching where he was steering
>his large van.)  My car was totaled, pretty much every vertebrae in my
>neck and back was jolted out of alignment, and I had various other
>bruises and scrapes.  I spent the summer in physical therapy, and
>falling asleep at odd times because of the powerful pain killers I was
>on.  I have spent the fall playing catch-up, due to not getting a bunch
>of stuff done this summer that I was planning on having accomplished.
>That has left me no time for hobbies, including XEmacs.
>
>In any case, the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become
>visible.  I'm hoping that I can manage a return to something resembling
>activity on XEmacs around the new year.  If anything urgent has come up
>that I am responsible for, please let me know and I'll try to work it in
>before then.  Otherwise, look for me to resubscribe to the mailing lists
>around then.
>
>Best regards to you all,
>  
>