Well looks like after posting a single time I vanished for another almost 6 months again. I don’t really have a ton of things to report, which might be the lack of posting – just kind of living life as it comes at me. I mentioned my new job in the last post – and I am still there, sometimes its pretty intense with the number of projects have I have in the works and for multiple clients all at once – its an interesting juggling act, but it keeps me busy and pays the bills – so I can’t complain.
We bought a house in the early part of June, so a bunch of my time around then was packing, and moving – and bugeting, and all that fun stuff – but it was all worth it. We have quite a bit more room, lots of things to do with the kids, our own driveway and garage – etc. More recently I spent a pretty good chunk of my life installing one of those wooden playset things for the kids – the directions warned that it could take 8-12 hours or something like that, but I burned pretty much an entire weekend with the help of my brother on that one.
My contract work is on the lower side lately – mostly because I am busy with the family and being back to full time I don’t have time to hunt around for clients and work to do – but who knows that might pick up again soon. I have been using that extra free time to spend time with the kids – and then when they are sleeping playing games – and even playing around with XNA a bit still – not sure if I will ever go as far as to buy a subscription and release an Indie game on xbox live – but its always good to have a dream.
Ymiris, Ant, and I haven’t done the friendcast in ages – we really did plan on bringing it back to life – so you never know it might be back sometime in the near future, especially now that the weather is getting colder making it less likely we are out enjoying the fun and sun with our families. 360friendspot is still online however I don’t think anyone visits much anymore, I never really got any writers to take my spot when I couldn’t keep up with the day to day news, and at this point even the forums are a bit vacant. Somewhat said really, as we had a great crew over there, never huge – but all great people, I am happy that I can still be in contact with as many of you that still want to be in contact 
Well maybe I will post again a little later (and much sooner…I promise) but I couldn’t believe how long it was since I posted, and felt like I should get SOMETHING out there to make sure everyone (those of you that care) know I am not dead…..at least not yet!
I always read TheSquid(tm).
Your blog is still in my RSS which is checked daily (though for some reason this post only showed up today?!?) so I’ll still read if there’s a post!
At least you decided to post this after so long, my blog has been a lot more vacant and neglected than yours, lol! Might get back to it one day…