It's work... plain and simple.
We have been having an extremely stressful, and immensely fun and rewarding project at work. It started off small, then it snowballed completely and all our parameters changed. For myself, I have had the chance to excel and, well, make a damned good impression.
This is why I suddenly disappeared from LotRO. There simply wasn't energy for both.
But... now we're on the home stretch. Delivery takes place on monday. And after that it's christmas vacation until jan 4th.
/S