Earth to Delta. Come in, Delta. Where the heck is Delta?

Where has he gone??? I had to bounce out from this forum from late August to early October for personal reasons and then he's gone! Say it ain't so! What did I miss? That dude regularly contributed a ton of stuff in a relatively humble way that usually seemed to calm and correct the liberal natives in ways no others could do. He was often a liberal whisperer. Such a bummer his name comes up black now...