Fall up here is really, really beautiful. There’s a reason our region is inundated with campers traveling at 30mph down the freeway every October because apparently they can’t both drive and look at the trees. It’s frustrating, but it’s a small price to pay. It would be nice if I could enjoy the beautiful part–I might try to take a hike next weekend up to the top of a mountain and get a good view of the foliage from the top of the hill. Mostly, I’ve been in the office, working.

Soon, winter will be here, and everyone’s scrambling to make sure they can keep their homes warm. When I’m not in the office, working, I’ll be trying to get the house ready for winter by getting those last remaining summer projects finished up and getting the winter projects completed before things dip below freezing. I’m also trying to get stuff off to the food bank, and I’m hoping to contribute to the home heating oil fund as well.

And I’m still running back and forth to the home office every week for work, which believe me is not a short commute.

I’ve been trying to squeeze in gaming when I can (a few hours on the train once I’ve finished my work, a few minutes at lunch, maybe a half hour after five).

Blogging, well… it’s not exactly news that it’s been a little quiet around here. So I’m going to shutter the blog for a little while. I’ve got a lot of plates spinning, and time to come up with quality content is getting harder, not easier, to find, and I don’t feel like I’m doing my excellent commenters (and believe me, I think of all of you as my friends), a good turn by being so flakey.

Did you know that Secret of Mana just came out on Virtual Console for 800 points? Hey, Fable 2 and Fallout 3 and even the latest Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion will be out before much longer.

I’ll be around, it’s not like I’m dropping off the face of the earth, and no, I’m not giving up on “the cause.” I just need to focus on these aforementioned plates at the moment. In the meantime, you should be able to find lots of excellent news and discussions over at The Iris Network Forums. And if you are so inclined, you can always find me at one of my online gaming accounts.