Missing in action and rebuilding my life

My apologies, but I've been missing in action for the past, well, a long time. Over the past 8 or 9 months or so, I've experienced a couple of life changing events. Life sort of went haywire and I was struggling to handle it all. First, I lost my job, and found that no one is really interested in hiring an almost 60 year old who spent the better part of the last 30+ years in tech. Ageism in hiring…