Oh..Not dead.
Office has been hectic and my home-time has been spent with a vim session on RHEL 6 on display #1, Microsoft Code on display #2 and this on display #3
Porting old code to modern Linux, working on a new release and departing on a 65,000 light year journey (plus doing things like mow the yard, fix the screen on the porch, etc) have left little time for chit chat :)