Proof of Life

Over the weekend I was chided for not updating in a loooong time, so this post is to let everyone know that I'm still alive.

My excuse for not posting is that I have been very busy both at work and at home.  The project that I'm working on at work has been a serious effort, what some of us around here would call a "death march" effort.  It started out as a quick eight week project that turned into a protracted effort that involved misunderstandings in scope and complexity, trying to design to hit a moving target, failed partnerships with external companies, and serious intra-team conflict.  (Please not that the previous list is nowhere near all-inclusive of the difficulties this project experienced)  By the end of the day, the last thing I wanted to do was sit down and write on a computer.  I thought I needed something more mind-numbing than that.

I was wrong.

It turns out that man is made to work.  Work is like exercise for your productivity muscles.  By doing, one further increases his capacity for doing more.

At any rate, I'm still here and I'll be posting more often now.  If nothing else, writing helps me to focus my thoughts and gives me a good pause in my thought cycles.  Sometimes that's just the thing to break the blahs or the non-productivity loops I get stuck in.