I am still alive... I've just been hibernating for a while.
Well, that and playing City of now that i9 has gone live. It's strange how the Inventions system has gotten so addictive, even though all I'm doing is picking up salvage. Oh, and Nick had a case of Newbie's Luck and got a drop of the Insect Wings costume piece... which he was then able to sell for 30 million infamy (and before anyone accuses him of price gouging, he didn't set the price at 30 million, but because it's a blind auction system that's what someone was willing to pay). So I'll never have to lend him infamy again.
Oh, and I found a cool website:
Emergency and Disaster Information Service. Tells you where all the active volcanoes are, heat waves, earthquakes, epidemics and such like. For example, there's anthrax in Russia right now, and bubonic plague in the States...