Goddammit!! I'm back.

So why the gap?

Not been on here since February... that was only to put some words in like I do from time to time (occasionally they get read you know!).

So - what the hell happened.

Why the silence for so long...?

Well, there's been a few things that I've been focused on recently.
One of the main worries has been ensuring that I wasn't one of the people culled when the company I work for had to do some trimming on the personnel front.

That's right - some people lost their jobs.

I was not one of them, but we have had about a month or so waiting for the hammer to fall on one of us, not knowing who it is...

It made for an interesting dynamic at work, for interesting read frustrating and uncomfortable being in that environment.
So the past few months or so - I have had no real creative urges (unless you count screaming at the top of my lungs 'AARG'.

Also, have had a new toy...

That being a 1TB external Hard drive.

Which I have moved all the old stuff onto and gave the PC a serious spring clean in the shape of a total cold reset... that's right folks, I rebooted it all from scratch... my PC is born again!

Sadly the downside of this has meant putting all the programs back onto it that I use for doing pictures, animation, music, photos, films... well you get the idea... it's a s-l-o-w process to say the least.

Also have got some shiny new programs and realised that my poor old PC may not be up to the job of doing complex graphics and so on, so yet more upgrades are on the horizon...

A graphics card would be the first choice, as would extra memory.