I have been wondering this myself, but I have undergone a little abductive reasoning session to figure out hat could be wrong with him. He lives in Spokane, which is 30 minutes from Coeur d'Alene. Coeur d'Alene rhymes with "Spores on the Brain", which clearly indicates that Aliens have kidnapped our friendly neighborhood knfiemaker and are undergoing experimentation on his brain with some kind of trans-galactic brain spores. The only part I am not sure of is the significance of the 30 minutes between Spokane and Coeur d' Alene, but I figure it either means that Allen has 30 minutes to live before the spores have reached full maturity and spring forth from his brain in a "lets go eat the humans" kind of way, or he will be posting here on the forums in 30 minutes to say hello. I will check back in 30 minutes to see if it is indeed the latter, but if it is the former, I'm heading to Vampire Gerbil's house!
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