Hello! It is time for accepting culpability. The news is: I do need extra time to complete the translation on my big ongoing Translation Project.
The first reason is predictable and unentertaining: I did underestimate the amount of work required to finish things up, and the amount my professional work would take me away from the project. I will emphasize again that I am the holdup here and that the delay is my fault. I apologize to everyone involved and everyone waiting.
The second is an emergency that's eaten up my April and much of my May. In brief: about a year ago, I had an issue with someone giving me unwanted attention (referenced briefly here). Well, there was an unexpected sequel to that last month, and the response from the local authorities was just...abysmal. It took further legal intervention to get things straightened out, and the problem has had an impact on my living situation, as I'm not getting the support from the authorities I need on this. Addressing the issue has taken a good deal of the time and energy that would've gone to the project for the past several weeks.
So that's the upshot. To provide some evidence here that forward progress is being made and that I'm not just faffing about, I'm going to aim to post an progress update every two weeks here until completion. I'll warn you that the first update may not have much, as I have to wrap up the Current Difficulties, as well as take care of some reviews re: file formatting I was supposed to do at the start of April when issues arose.
Again, I apologize; I should have better news in the weeks to come.
