Thought I'd just update this, for no reason. Just felt like it.
Life is...taking a very, very gradual trend upward, I guess? This larger trend has been seen for about a year (almost exactly), and a much smaller-scale upward trend in the past few weeks. But the past few months have seen, ultimately, a very low trend (till recently).
Still wondering about the near future. There seem to be pockets of time where a lot of things happen at once, and stretches of time where not much happens at all to anybody. It's been a pocket of events for a few of us.
We can only look to the future with a smile and hope.