People who’ve been reading this blog for a while now have been asking me why i’ve been so quiet lately. In December and January i averaged about 8 posts a week, which was a pace that i knew i’d never be able to keep up. It just happened to be a productive 2 months i guess. Then in February, i took a week off to visit New York and after that, things have been kinda slow here. After a while, i started getting emails and questions from people asking me if i was having another burn-out. I appreciate the concerns, but no… there’s no burn-out going on 
Once i got back from my trip i sorta took my time in catching up with the insane number of blog posts that i missed and i wasn’t really making a lot of time to write posts or to write code in general. And i do have somewhat of a social life which for various reasons, took up more and more of my time after that trip. That is the first reason why the posts started slowing down.
And then i was presented with a huge opportunity which would involve me relocating to a different country and basically starting my life all over. I gave that some serious thought, and it took me about 3 weeks to realize how great my life actually is. I already have an absolutely great job which i love (even though i bitch a lot at work), and i’ve realized a few other things as well. I’ve got a truly great group of friends that i wouldn’t trade for anything in the world and i’ve got a great family that i wouldn’t want to miss either, even though i don’t spend enough time with them. In a way it’s sad that i didn’t realize that until i had to think about giving that all up (well, not entirely but definitely in a significant manner) but i’m very thankful for finally coming to that conclusion. As you can probably imagine, having to think about something like that isn’t very conducive to blogging or writing code so again, i didn’t really make any time for that.
A couple of weeks ago i made my final decision that i want to stay where i am and i’m pretty sure i’m not gonna regret that. So i figured “alright, now i can get back to actually getting some work done!”. And then something else happened. I met a woman who goes way beyond everything i ever wanted from a woman. She’s basically the coolest, and well, the hottest girl i’ve ever met and so far, things are working out pretty good. Now, i’m the kind of guy who realizes that something like that can end anytime, but until that happens, i’d much rather prefer to spend my time on her than on writing blog posts or writing code. I’m pretty sure you can all understand that
And last but not least, i no longer feel the pressure or the drive to keep writing good blog posts. I’ve always been very focused on growing the audience of this blog and i’m very proud of what it has become. Sure, it’s not the greatest or biggest .NET blog that you can find, but it is something respectable and that’s something that i’ve worked hard for to achieve. But i no longer really care about it like i did in the past. I’m always going to continue writing blog posts, but it’s only gonna happen when i actually feel like writing something. I’m no longer gonna write posts just for the sake of keeping the stats up. That might mean that there will be weeks of very low activity here. It might also change again in the next couple of weeks or months. I really don’t know and only time will tell i guess. The one thing that i am sure of is that the posts that i am going to write in the future will be good
So anyways, that’s the story behind the lack of activity on this blog. I’m sure most of you can understand, and well, i can’t really pretend to care about those who don’t