Been Offline Awhile, Been Busy

'Life' gets in the way sometimes. So it's been with me and my posts.

So much going on; so much to do; and such little time. I'm not complaining, but things have been very hectic and upon reflection, hectic has been great.

Family, friends and a lot of work have all -- in their own way -- eaten-up my time for refection and random observation in the last week.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't play it any different. But we've been so full up with activity, I've had not time to think.

Ar work, Pippa and I have had our own individual trials of late, but sharing burdens has only served to provide one another with wise and balanced counsel, but also brought us even closer.

I'd begun to think that having a partner in 'roughly' the same field as me was a pain. We bring our work home each day, and heck, sometimes it's really tedious listening to one's own day-to-day experience played-back by one's co-habitee and partner -- especially when you're trying to switch off.

But this week, I had a fairly simple work problem -- one normally sorted very easily. But with so much riding on success and with so much else to do, I couldn't think straight and was really losing it.

I'll spare the details, but suffice it to say, Pip sorted me out. She claims only to have led me to my own natural and obvious solution to the problem -- an elegant one too, I might add.

But there's something about the woman with whom you're soon-to-be betrothed giving a look that says, "I'm not offering-up my life to a spineless wimp -- sort it out and fast," that galvinises clarity of thought and girds action.

She too, as noted, has had a tough time of late in the office, and I can only hope that my contribution has been equally as helpful.