Other things have taken my attention away from chess, and I have neglected posting for several months now. One interesting observation, is that while I have not been training other than playing 1 G30 game a few times per week, my chess has not sufferred as much as I would have thought, and I think this has to do with not playing any blitz whatsoever.
I do plan on returning to returning to chess within the next few weeks, hopefully refreshed and invigorated due to my chess break.