It’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything.  I can’t really say that I’ve been too busy—I’ve been enjoying the summer.  Since the kids got out of school, it’s difficult to get much work done.  So, everything is on hold until September.

I haven’t even been tweeting lately.  I guess I feel social media fatigue and am waning a little on Twitter, Facebook, blogging, etc.  Everything I think of to write about seems too mundane to write once I start typing it.  So, I don’t write it.  This is not what a blog is all about.  A blog should allow you to write what you want regardless of whether it is worthy of someone’s attention—if they want to read it, they will (or won’t).  I seem to be experiencing an inexplicable self-consciousness whenever I start writing something lately. It will pass soon, I’m sure.

On the tech side, I’ve been playing around with Silverlight a lot.  I have a hot and cold relationship with it.  Sometimes it seems like such a gimmicky technology which flies in the face of web standards.  At other times it seems like something that is so cool, you shouldn’t ignore it.  I’m getting a lot of agents calling me about WPF work in the banking sector—so it may be picking up soon (since WPF will probably lead to Silverlight work).

I just got back from a week-long holiday in Paris—well, actually most of it was spent at Disneyland.  I listened to some Michel Thomas French CDs before going over and tried to use French as much as possible with varying levels of success.  Despite learning Mandarin and Vietnamese, I failed the only semester I took of French in high school and always had trouble with masculine and feminine nouns (I had the same trouble when learning Hindi and Spanish).  I think I learned more in the past few weeks than I did that entire high school course.  Still, my French knowledge is really lacking—but having finally visited France, I am motivated to learn more of it.  It was a lot of fun, and very easy to travel to from London on the Eurostar.

Now that summer is drawing to a close, it’s time to get back to work.  I’m going to either start looking for more Overpass clients or find a contract somewhere.  The next few weeks will be pretty busy.

So, immediately following my blog post about how great blogging is and how you should get a blog yourself, I go a month without posting anything.  Sometimes, although I have loads of energy, the things I think to write about seem either so trivial or so complicated that I don’t want to sit down and write them.

But here’s a patchy update on what is going on with me.

I’ve been working a bit over the last month.  I’m just doing some contract work while trying to get some business development going.  It’s funny when you’ve not been working a regular job for a while how un-natural it seems to get dressed up everyday and leave your normal life for 12 hours each day.

I’ve also been getting interested in meditation.  I’ve been meditating twice daily for two and a half weeks now.  It was difficult at first, but I’m getting better at it.  I’ve read so much, researched so much, and had so many experiences that I will write a post on this in the future.  I feel more calm and free from some of the anxiety I feel from time to time.  I’m really enjoying it, but it hasn’t been easy getting started (for me, at least).

I’m still getting up early.  I’m still running.  I still have my American accent, but am experimenting with using the word ‘fortnight’ more often.  Life is good.