Crash....And Reboot

It should be clear from the absence of any posts for the last three months, I've been away. Without going too deeply into detail, it'll suffice to say that I've been out of work since the beginning of September. Naturally, this entails a dire financial situation--that still needs correcting--with sidebar issues that make it hard to focus on tech developments (most cost $$ that I don't have yet).
I'm not giving up yet. I may have had to relocate and lose some stuff, but if it's humanly possible, I'll recover. It's kind of a system crash and reboot situation.
I've not been entirely out of the loop...I'm still gathering and digesting the information paths for what's going on in the tech universe. I guess what's changed is that (for now) many of the gadgets and new software, etc. that I was interested in because they seemed attainable to me are now just interesting because they represent advancement of tech. I guess that's what it's supposed to be about anyway...