Where's Dan?!?

I'm here! Still alive!

Sincere apologies for disappearing for a whole month. Shocking. Clearly I've been very very busy, but of course that is no excuse. In fact, my birthday came and went. Amazing. But basically I've been sitting in that building you saw in the last post and my head has been spinning like a top.

The new job has been much more of everything than I thought it would be. More work, more pressure, more hours, but also more fun and more interesting. Though the balance part I'm still working out. I never knew how good I had it in my old job! I am sure, however, that in the long run it will be good for me, so that's kept me sort of sane. But I almost forgot how urgent everything is when you are sitting next to traders. I don't know how they live with all that pressure. I'm happy I'm not one of them. So hopefully I'll get things under control soon and can start living a normal-ish life again. No more gym in the mornings though and no more peaceful lunches. Darn.

Many people sent me very nice emails for my birthday. And I did a very bad thing - I didn't write back to anyone. Horrible. Shocking. Appalling. I'm working on this right after I post this, so everyone should be hearing back from me soon. I hope to never have to do that again. And I hope everyone forgives me!

I'll do my best this week to get a few of the things promised up here. I really like writing on this site and sharing stories and pics with everyone, so I will try very hard to keep it up. The trouble has been that since I'm working with people and software that are very fickle, I have no idea how busy I'll be day to day and week to week. So if I seem to disappear again for a bit, send happy thoughts my way! Please!

Ok, hope everyone is enjoying the start of spring. I was in Brighton on the south coast yesterday and it was very nice. A good break for me. But now it's raining again, so I'm back inside. Oh well.

Cheers!
Dan