Ack. 4 months is a rather long time to not post anything, and as I am sure you will all agree, something I should be quite ashamed of. I’ve been a busy little bunny doing various things that all conspire to take me one way or another away from what I love best (The internet, and level design).

Real work, mostly. I spend 4 days a week now at my “day” job, although I got a promotion in early September, the days working there are a severe dent to mental my capacities (such as they are). After coming back from a day of working there I can just about manage to sit in a computer chair for 6 hours and vegetate before sleeping. Joy.

I’m also back in full Open University swing, entering the third of what looks like it will be a 6 year (6!!) course. More joy.

All this isn’t to say I haven’t done things I’m happy about. I’ve actually been running with a few friends of mine a website design/hosting company that although isn’t time consuming in the strictest sense, those hours spent working on client websites are a draw on my precious time.

I’ve also managed to find my love of level design, buried way deep down, and dusted the old girl off. I worked on one map already and finished it off as much as I felt I could before pretty much discarding it (It was a good idea, and I may revisit it, but I’ve been out of practice for so long the first few maps will probably never see the light of day). I’m working on a second map which if things carry on the way they are at the moment I wont get to work on for another 6 weeks or so. Yet more joy.

Last but not least, Wavelength. Ooohhh Wavelength how I have spurned thee. It’s become quite popular over the last few months and weeks drawing in several new forum members a day and receiving quite a few page views more than the previous months which is all just fantastic but I’ve got so many plans to improve the backend, to improve the front end, to improve ALL of it, not to mention writing content for it! And I just Have. No. Time. Damn it.

There are other changes in my personal life too. Big, massive changes. But that’s still a work in progress so I’d like to save it for another post, and I promise I’ll try and make sure that’s not in 4 months time. Probably.