Goodness!

It's been a little while, eh? You might get the impression I've been off gallivanting, having a variety of adventures that I can now lay before you, like Marco Polo's tales of the Orient.

Well, I went to Melbourne to play Diplomacy, but that's about it.

I've been busy, though. Busy and indolent in equal measure. It's a difficult balance to maintain, I grant you, but here's a brief insight - whereas I said I'd be in the office at People Towers today, so that I might man the captain's chair on a special issue we're cooking up (Model Citizens Annual 2009, to be precise), I'm actually lounging on my bed, fully dressed, writing these words in between browsing webcomics and enjoying the bitter-sweet aftertaste of coffee.

And I certainly haven't been making headway on any of the various other projects I'm attached to. The Chaser Annual 2009 cries out for inroads to be made, other stuff's on hold...and worst of all, my silent vow to myself that all my financial affairs would be in order by July 1 remains unfulfilled.

No spreadsheets prepared. No new bank account set up. Not even a manilla folder for the receipts strewn about my bookcase, plastic tub and wallet.

I'm bloody loving PROTOTYPE, though. A hoodie-wearing anti-hero whinging about having superpowers so awesome that he can kick a helicopter out of the sky? Oh, I am so in.

Even though I'll have to start it again on my home machine. Ah well. It's worth it.