I'm sorry for your loss. It gets easier but you still miss them. Christmas was not the same without our nerotic, half dog/half teddy bear, bundle of fluff getting excited for his presents and opening his own (it was always amazing how he knew which were his versus the others). We also have a cat, Neko, which is Japanese for cat as he actually came from Japan as a rescue brought back by a serviceman stationed over there. He's really sweet and a loving cat and while I am more dog person, he has really warmed me up to cats.
Back to racing. I think I made a decision to step away from the sport side of GT7 for a bit. I'm been racing it incessently for a year and I may be getting a bit burned out on it. I did no more races since Wednesday even though Suzuka was treating me well as I had this subconscious fear that I would then start to drop spots/DR and I would end the week dissappointed and I didn't want that. Instead, I went back to single player, particularly on my GB account, to complete more of that. I realized that was kind of fun and I am motivated by the completion factor moreso than race finishing results; at least for now.
The biggest driver though, was that I am always wanted to drive Road America (my local home track) and GT doesn't have it. I got Automobilista2 installed over the holidays and while I don't know what I am doing with it yet, I was able to jump onto Road America, pull out a modern Porsche 991 RSR GTE and drive the track. Oh, how glorious it was. That is such a good track and the sound and drive from the GTE car was fantastic. I also got Assetto Corsa installed so I may be exploring the PC world of racing for a bit.
I'll still lurk here and will still do GT7, just less so for the time being...