My hearing has always been pretty bad, but since October things have been going downhill. Around January it got to the point where I was having a hard time hearing myself talk.
Things are a tad better right now - but in the time I took off to get through the hearing thing a few exciting new ideas came up and right now I'm in the middle of a pretty complicated guitar & banjo project.
The web site is going to be around for a while, but the odds of any kind of an update in the near future are pretty slim. After the current project is finished this summer my plans are to put my instruments away fo a while and leave the teaching stuff to my students.