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Absentee blogger – an excuse for general lameness →

To my own utter dismay and shame, it’s been over three months since I’ve written a post on this blog.  I’d love to have a real excuse for my complete failure to put fingers to keyboard and tap out even the most basic stack of words, but I don’t.  Instead, I’ll blame it on the following events and hope that I’ll be forgiven (or that my absence from blogging means that no one revisits the site anymore, and thus I get away Scott free).

In the past three months, I’ve…

Quit my job and started up a small design/development agency – you can find it here: twotwentyseven.com – massive amounts of paperwork, meetings with bank managers and sorting out sites/business cards/etc have chewed into my spare time a fair bit.

Been awash with work at my current agency – up until leaving Publicis, my workload has increased exponentially – with an initially small client becoming ever increasingly all consuming.  It’s been fun so far, but it does mean no skiving to write a cheeky blog post.

Being healthy.  This means an hour or so in the gym, at least 3 times a week.  I’ve lost a stone and a half in 3 months, and put on some quality muscle.  I’ve also lost a fair chunk of my time to sweating away like a…  well, sweaty thing in running shorts.

Started dating my flatmate.  Dangerous grounds initially, but all seems to be going swimmingly well so far.  It does however mean I’m now spending my free time with the gorgeous lady instead of hunched over a keyboard experimenting.

So, whilst the above doesn’t really excuse a lack of correspondence from myself, it may go someway to explaining it.

With a new start (again, go visit twotwentyseven.com!) comes new ventures and a change in lifestyle.  I’ll be redesigning the blog, and separating it into two parts – one something more akin to tumbler with a general feed of stuff going on in my life, and the other focused on my inner geek.

Come back in a few weeks, and if everything hasn’t gone horribly wrong, there should be a shiny new site to look at…  along with some relevant up-to-date content.

nath.