Still juggling those balls...

An entire month without a new 'Blog entry can only mean one thing - I've been busy. Very busy. This has indeed been the case throughout February - I don't remember ever having so many things to deal with in my life.

Top of the agenda has been my new position in my 'real' job - Despite being deceptively simple at its core, I've been driving hard for a lot of improvements and extensions to the remote management system of which I'm now in charge, which is in turn generating more work and revenue for the company. More revenue for me too - Two pay rises in as many months says I must be doing something right. ;o)

My efforts on this front have had a nasty side effect of slowing my output at Elite Bastards, but I'm now starting to regain my focus on that front I hope. I have a few reviews on the go at present, and last weekend I spent a very pleasant few hours in a Covent Garden restaurant with a couple of guys from AMD, chewing the breeze about CPUs and chipsets (With a very brief mention of R600, of course). The main focus of the chat was, of course, AMD's recently launched 690 chipset - I have all the relevant hardware sat here at the moment, so it's something else for me to crack on with.

Finally, amongst all this, I've been trying to make plenty of time for my girlfriend too. If I'm honest though, I don't think that particular relationship is going to hold out much longer - It's hard when the person you're with doesn't understand your passions in life and what drives you, and that seems to be the case here. Ah well, c'est la vie - It may sound odd and a kind of backwards way of looking at things, but I'm really keen on making myself more time for review writing again starting soon, I've really missed the challenge of growing Elite Bastards and writing definitive reviews for the site. I suppose that makes it official - I'm a workaholic.

So, that's basically my month from a 10,000 foot view - Lots of meetings, lots of running around getting stressed, and so on. I'd like to pretend March will be somewhat calmer for me, but that just isn't going to happen... ;o)