<p>Hi!&#0160; </p>

<p>Umm...Hello?</p>

<p>It&#39;s been a long time since I&#39;ve written here.&#0160; Heck, it&#39;s been a long time since I&#39;ve written anywhere - including work stuff - and that&#39;s just lame because the &quot;work&quot; writing?&#0160; It consists of me enjoying myself and then writing about it.&#0160; And I haven&#39;t even managed to do that.</p>

<p>You may or may not be asking yourself why.</p>

<p>Well, for the lamest, most overused reason ever:</p>

<p>Because I&#39;ve been Busy.&#0160; </p>

<p>(Note the capital &quot;B&quot;.&#0160; I totally did that on purpose so that my excuse would seem Important.)&#0160; </p>

<p>(Didn&#39;t work, did it?)</p>

<p>Seriously folks, I&#39;ve been busy.&#0160; I swear.&#0160; I&#39;ll even tell you about it, but not now.&#0160; (One of the benefits of taking a break is that I&#39;ve improved my already impressive procrastination skills.&#0160; I&#39;m sure that they will come in handy someday.)</p>

<p>OK, maybe I wasn&#39;t busy <em>all</em> the time, but for a while there I kind of forgot that I had a website, and that I had made a commitment to write.&#0160; Then I got a little check in the mail for a past writing project, and it kind of reminded me that this writing thing?&#0160; It&#39;s not so futile.&#0160; Oh, and then I was reminded that I do indeed have a website (by friends who very clearly know that I am alive, but who still called to ask if I was OK.&#0160; Because I hadn&#39;t updated my blog.)&#0160; </p>

<p>(I&#39;ve created a monster, I think.)</p>

<p>Most people that write choose to do it because it feels good and because you are just driven to do it and <em>blah, blah</em> I&#39;ll spare you the commencement speech.&#0160; That&#39;s why I decided to do it too.&#0160; And I worked at it, and just when I was getting a little momentum, just like that, I didn&#39;t need to write.&#0160; In fact, I needed to not write.&#0160; </p>

<p>So I didn&#39;t - for eight weeks.&#0160; </p>

<p>And it was good.</p>

<p>But now writing is ever so gently calling me again.&#0160; </p>

<p>And that is even better.</p>

<p>So I need to get to work, but I promise that that includes updating this here site.&#0160; </p>
