I believe something I call "the window phenomenon" has occurred. Sometimes, life allows you have the time to do these big experiments on your life and then it gets busy again and you can't dive into it with the same capacity, so you have to do what you have to do while surviving what you have at hand.

I have gone through many patches like this, and I believe he had to handle life while is experimental workstation had to limp through.

Then when he had the time, he had just pulled the plug.