Hey there (to any­one reading…)

…and let us be hon­est, I van­ished for nearly a month so it wouldn’t sur­prise me if I lost a few fre­quent read­ers to the great void that had become my weblog.

What the hell hap­pened, eh? Well not much. After the NPI in May, I was basi­cally warn out. The end of the month had been tough and I’d been left scram­bling to push and write, push and write and when June came, I just let the silence be. No writ­ing — at all.

A few things have taken up my time recently, includ­ing but not exclu­sive to two bicy­cles requir­ing com­plete ser­vices (I’m talk­ing nuts and bolts and bear­ings, not a spit and shine), the begin­ning of sum­mer, Father’s Day and for the past week, my PC crap­ping out on me leav­ing me to find alter­na­tive ways to use it (Win­dows… up yours pally).

I have pretty much got­ten those, and the many other things, done and dusted to an extent where I can ‘relax’ to a degree and focus on Ran Red once more. It’s been tough, feel­ing like you are shun­ning your respon­si­bil­i­ties when in all actu­al­ity, it’s because of your respon­si­bil­i­ties you have to shun it.

I guess that depends on how high a shelf that book goes, in com­par­i­son to fam­ily and the auto­matic gear of life. Though in July, Ran Red will be up there — para­mount again.

Though I have ignored my own weblog, I have tried to keep up on oth­ers’, and I have realised my links have van­ished thus caus­ing me to try and remem­ber most of the addresses. I’m not sure what hap­pened, or what Word­Press did, but where are my shortcuts?!

Most of you seem to be doing well and con­tin­u­ing on with pur­pose and for that, I am happy. It would be a major downer to come back from my sud­den hia­tus to realise every­one had gone on an extended one: no-one likes com­ing home from their hol­i­day first.

Back to Ran Red, and I did mean to put in what had hap­pened over the last few days of May. I won’t be doing that, there’s lit­tle point in look­ing back a month when I should be focus­ing on the next one. My book has got­ten to a place where I can choose to branch off in one of a few direc­tions with a new chap­ter, but which will be a choice I have to make when I sit down prop­erly to begin again.

I was think­ing it might be a good idea to have some­one cri­tique it in some fash­ion, though obvi­ously I am a lit­tle dubi­ous about show­ing my rough-book to any­one because A) Well, I’m proud of it and although I am no del­i­cate flower, I guess I’m still ready­ing myself for crit­i­cism, and B) Sim­ply put, I don’t need any­body steal­ing it. We’ll see on this one. I know it’s healthy and in the end, will pro­vide good feed­back, but still… yeah… maybe I should fin­ish it first?

So any­way. Glad to be back and I’m going to try and post a typ­i­cal (me) ram­ble on some noth­ing­ness before June is up.

(Oh, I need to update my actual site too!)