It has been a long time since I visited the LPF, and I always liked Big Al's posts. He got sick, and I tried to find something about his status on the LPF, but the Big Al thread seems to have become part of a hard to find archive.
Does anything know anything about him? Because I'm rarely on the LPF, I don't feel comfortable asking there. I know he was fighting hard and getting bad news. I posted some supportive posts to Al. His attitude about his illness seemed amazing.