Work is proceeding at a breakneck pace right now for various super secret reasons.  This weekend there's a 48-hour contest again, which I am really looking forward to, but I'm thinking I might not be able to enter, because I do need to keep plowing away at what I'm doing.  I don't know, we'll have to see.  Either way, I will be immersed in serious work at an intense pace.  So that's why I am neglecting this journal now, and will be neglectful in the near future as well.  I'll be back in time, with gifts!
Speaking of neglect, I haven't finished my novel, and haven't been writing an hour a day like I should.  But this stuff I'm doing is important!  On the other hand, I'd hate to lose my inertia and get lost as to what I should be doing.  So I need to make time for that too... it might be a draining couple of weeks!  Back to the grindstone.  I'll try to be less sneaky about my projects in the future, but just let me have this one last shocker.  I enjoy surprising people.