So, I kind of did drop off the face of the earth since @WritersConnx. It started with tearing my internet laptop apart, to clean out the dust and old heat paste to get it ready for Discord. That kicked off yet another yak shaving multi-day marathon, and I'm not done. More parts come tomorrow.
The good news is that the flash RAM I installed in my writing laptop is smoothing out a ton of wait spinner related friction in my process. The bad/good news is that I've started about three new stories since then.
As for the project that counts, 7LAP, I could find about three completed but not done (ready for the self-editing checklists I use) chapters in it at this point. Some are out of order, since I worked out ahead on one group of characters. Another is waiting for me to fill in setup details, as I find the payoffs later in the episode.
For this project, at least, I'm finding it helpful to think in terms of 2-3 chapter episodes. My plan was to have each of those 11 episodes be about 4.5-4.6k words. I don't know if that's reasonable for what I have outlined. Either way, as soon as I manage to get anything truly done, there will be a lot of it. I should be able to start a normal once a week with buffer posting pattern then.
Whether you celebrate or not, or get it off work or not, I hope your day is drama free. Except for your writing, of course. Cheers.