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March 16, 2006

Life : Yes, it has been a long time

The problem has been that I actually had three events which consumed my mind share, one after another.

First there was the original work-crunch. I'm glad to say I managed to care for my health (physical and mental) much better through this one than the last. I'm not as young as I was, and last big crunch at work I dove in like a 30-year-old and burned myself out after a few days. This time I ramped up more slowly, giving my body a chance to adjust to the faster pace, and was more careful to listen when it started to say "enough" at the end of each day. The result is I managed to put in a lot of extra hours over two weeks and still had energy at the end. The fact that I had been exercising regularly before this also helped I am sure.

But that's not all….

The timing of the original crunch was driven by a bunch of people coming to our SF office from around the world (no details, as per my "I don't blog on work" rule). As it turns out, it was decided that a subset of them would stay for the following week to work with me on an unrelated task. This was essentially a training exercise where I had to spend a fair part of the week teaching them about something. It was actually quite fun for me (as has been previously established, I love to teach); but "teaching" uses pretty much the same part of my brain as "blogging". So, while my hours were normal, I didn't really have any mind-share left to think any deep thoughts to blog about.

Finally, I had previously committed to preach at my church on a particular day when my pastor was out; and as it turns out, just as the people I was teaching at work left, it became time for me to prepare my sermon, which again took up whatever mind-share I had for blogging.

So, I spent 4 weeks with no real mindshare to spend on this blog, and then a few days where I really didn't want to think any deep thoughts.

But now, hopefully, I am back.

Not sure I have many big thoughts yet; but I'll find something to say.

Posted by Steven at March 16, 2006 09:30 AM