Owing to some extreme fuckups on the part of two different broadband providers and, for a change, none on my part, I’ve spent most of the last couple of weeks without any ‘net connect. Hence the radio silence. But I’m away at a very nice hotel spending some quality time with the S.O. and they happen to have wireless connection so I’m making the most of it for now.

So Happy New Year and I hope your resolutions are, indeed, quantifiable, measurable and achievable. I haven’t worked what out what mine are yet, apart from a) losing 1.5-ish stone in weight and b) learning to spell. That’ll probably do as in 5 or so months time my life is going to be turned upside down again and it seems fruitless in making any plans when there are so many butterflies flapping their wings in distant parts of the world, determined to make my life interesting in ways unidentifiable.

For example, only this morning I got a call telling me that my current contract was going to end sooner than anticipated because, well, I’m not sure what the real reason is but it might be to do with clash of characters and one of the characters involved might be me. Or it’s more likely that there’s a lack of funding for a project that’s currently running about 6 or so months late (even though there’s no official deadline) and my leet haXXor skillz invoke a premium rate so are first for the chop. It’s mixed blessings - glad to be off the project but not relishing having to stand on the metaphorical street corner prostituting myself out to the highest bidder again. It’s hardly the weather for it either.

Back soon when you will be victim to the last two of my Top 20 games list (possibly post-dated to be pre-christmas) and some more invective filled blathering about nothing in particular.