A couple of weeks ago now I decided to take a break from writing on the blog due to personal reasons. Being a bit of a geek, it’s fair to say that I have a lot of IT-related personal projects on the boil at any given time. Or rather, I used to.<\/p>\n
However, I found that it had reached the point where I was focusing so much on the blog that I wasn’t giving myself any time to work on other projects that also happen to give me a great deal of personal satisfaction. So I wanted to pull back from the blog for a little while to evaluate where I was going, and what I was doing.<\/p>\n
In its own way, this has been both a challenge and also very rewarding. Rewarding because I actually managed to achieve several things that I’d been putting off for ages, and challenging because it made me realise how much I’ve been using this blog as a measure of personal satisfaction.<\/p>\n
On top of all that, last Friday marked my partner’s 40th birthday, and I would have been remiss if I’d not spent serious time on preparations for that*.<\/p>\n