S'alright, mate. I'm just glad you're still playing! So many members have disappeared...
Just stopping by to let you know why you have not seen me online in Tri.
My three year old Wii crashed a few weeks ago. I drove up to Nintendo (only 30 minutes from me) with the Wii wrapped in a Spock burial robe to see if they could resurrect it or at very least recover my data. An hour and half later the tech gave me the bad news. They couldn't recover any of my data (game saves, Mii's, message board, photo channel images, friends in address book, game stats history).
They ended up providing me with a new Wii, a year warranty and no charge on the repair.
So, I lost quite a bit of data. Many game saves that I failed to back up to SD card. But, most saddening was the fact that I had lost the many
game saves that Nintendo doesn't allow to be saved to SD card (Monster Hunter Tri, Smash Bros Brawl, The Conduit, Endless Ocean and I think Mario Kart to name a few).
I had around 120 hours invested in Tri and I just can't see my self starting over from scratch and building up a new character again.
I really enjoyed hanging out with many of you. Well, see ya around and perhaps I'll meet up with some of you in other online games down the road.