There is no way today is going to be "normal". I think Chris will eventually come through but if anything it will be late... Still no SSL, 2FA etc... He still has a lot of work to do. Hopefully he had been focusing on the payments but I still would expect a slow payment process since it's likely new code...
I tend to agree with this, I'm still giving LTCgear another week from this point before I give up hope. There is still a lot of work to be done, and as far as I can tell, the work thus far has been done, maybe not in an exactly perfect fashion, with exact updates along the way, as he should have... but there were few updates, and there are small changes happening, the site seems to be up but still needs things... at least he's doing something, but yea, I wouldn't say he's going to have payments done today, I hope so, but I don't think so. I also think that he deserves the benefit of the doubt, LTCgear has been working great for me the past few months I've had it, so I don't have issue with allowing him to fix things in a timely manner, and get things up again. If this means small updates and not a final fix until next week, that's better than magically disappearing with all of our (a whole shit load, a lot just from me) money.
my .02
