I like to think of myself as patient and trusting, but no contact at all since this break and not responding to any of us makes me a little fishy. And if he is not planning on continuing these breaks I guess he has the opportunity to "disappear" right now.
I just raised a Paypal dispute so Al now has until August 4th to respond which is plenty of time. If he responds in this time and gets the item sent and tracked how he has done previously, it's easy to close the dispute and no harm done. But like I said, I only had 3 days to get it dispute sorted or it was past the 45 days and payment was basically lost. Hopefully this gives him a sense or urgency to get this all sorted!
BTW I would recommend everyone else look into opening a dispute before that 45 days passes also.