Counting From, Rather Than On, Hairy's Return

For 21 planetary rotations, Hairy has not resumed contact. Medbot has been downloaded in multiple copies to probes. Only 8 probes are available. All have been dispatched along spatiotemporal vectors with multiple incidences of intersection with Hairy's recent signal transmission loci.

Interestingly, the loci, accounting for interstellar drift, follow a geometric pattern based upon the approximate shape of silicon-carbon blend DNA. With any luck, contact, and possibly retrieval, will have been managed before seven more rotations.

How have any of you coped with the feeling of absence when your associates have been longer out of contact than usual? Unlikely that any of you have counted molecules in their last known location.