Blog Hiatus

I’m back, hopefully, after a dry spell. I’m learning the difficulty in maintaining a blog where the topics require some research, in the face of family needs, a demanding job, other personal and career influences, and the need for some good old down time. For example, I’m a board-certified industrial hygienist, and that has maintenance requirements fulfilled by conference attendance, holding office in local professional organizations, and a variety of courses, include home-study programs. Since I haven’t had time to hold office, and conference attendance is expensive (gotta show the business value in it to get funding support from my employer), I’m a bit behind on certification maintenance points for this year, I’m doing the home-study course – which is another pull on my time.

One of the other lessons I’ve learned is that when your time is limited, you need to pace yourself in blogging – long articles need to be interspaced with short vignettes, news clips, book reviews and so forth.

So, here’s to the return of Impact Analysis. Let’s hope that 2005 postings will be more frequent.