It's all good, man! As you say my stories are always waiting for me, they, "like The Hourglass Effect", are always waiting for readers as well. So seriously, I mean it when I say feel free to read the story at whatever pace is best for you. Especially with how I update these days, it probably would be best for all of us. Haha. Really, I just feel blessed to have gotten so much out of the back-and-forth interaction between writer and reader that FFnet gives us. So again, thanks for all the support over the years, Tiger. It's been a blast.
Wherever our lives takes us from here, I hope it will be a fun and pleasant ride!