Are you feeling abandoned and neglected?
Posted 28 November 2007, by Aaron
OK, a bit of a melodramatic headline, but what’s going on? Eight days without a post? Only six posts throughout all of November?
Well, the good news is that I haven’t fallen off the edge of a cliff or been run over by a hippopotamus. I am alive and well. The bad news is that this pattern of irregular and infrequent posting is set to continue.
Ironically, November has been an amazing month for this blog. A few stumbles early in the month led to staggering levels of traffic and a significant increase in subscriber numbers. If you are one of these new subscribers I am really sorry - I feel like you’re a guest at my party and that I’ve been ignoring you. I’m not normally like this, honest!
A few potential blogging days were wasted earlier this week after I broke my brand new Mac at the weekend. Well, I didn’t break it, but when you give a new toy to an eager chap like me and mix it with a very limited knowledge of UNIX code, bad things can happen. And they did.
So a few days were spent reinstalling everything and moving all my data from my PC… again! In addition to this I’ve been trying to sell a few things - eBay really can be a time-consuming business - and of course, Christmas present buying is at the front of my mind, or more accurately, should be at the front of my mind - I haven’t bought one thing yet!
On top of all this, today I was offered a pretty big freelance contract which is going to keep me occupied most evenings and weekends for the next seven weeks. Who said Christmas was for partying and getting merry? I can’t moan because it means 2008 is going to start with a bumper pay slip, but it does mean blogging is slipping further down my list of priorities than I’d like it to.
Of course I will reserve some of my time for miLienzo.com - in fact I’ve got a great article coming up on how to set up a web server in Mac OS-X without bricking the computer! However, in an ideal world I’d post three or four times a week - this just isn’t going to happen for a while.
Thanks to everyone for sticking with me during this time of sparse bloggery. It’s great to see lots of new subscribers and I look forward to getting to know you all once I get my blogging butt back in action.
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Tags:Blogging, Christmas, Freelancing, Personal, Workload
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