The nature of the long hiatus

It's been almost a year and a half since I posted. It seems tedious to explain why, but I suppose there are two arenas: personal and professional.

One, I began blogging more seriously at the office. I write a more-or-less daily blog on the intranet and an almost-monthly posting on the company social site; often writing begets more writing, but many details I can't post publicly so it was simpler to let this blog lie.

Two, I pursued some extra responsibilities at the office and, as a consequence, got a significant promotion, involving more responsibility again; more responsibility means less time, which means fewer words when it comes to personal blogging.

Three, a relationship in which I had invested some hopes ended suddenly in October 2008 and I was a bit preoccupied. I've written about it in some other venues and have no wish to recount it here; but for a long stretch afterward I wrote about this subject and no other, and became so sick of my own words that I cultivated silence for a few months -- no personal blog posts anywhere.

So, not much to this post other than that.