Not Dead Yet

When friends start sending concerned emails wondering if I've been abducted by aliens, that means it's high time I posted something to my journal.

So no, I've not been on an interstellar journey, nor contracted some horrible disease. My absence has been due primarily to something far more prosaic than that: I've become addicted to a new game. The game is called minecraft and I'll go into it in more detail in later posts. (Doubtless far more detail than you could ever want.)

My battle with paxil-induced lethargy continues and I seem to be slowly winning the fight. Most weeks I manage to get in a week's worth of work. But then I reward myself by firing up minecraft and when I next look at the clock six hours have passed. As a result, I haven't done any geocaching since July and haven't been on the exercise cycle since September. Bad Dean!

I'm giving a talk at a conference in Las Vegas at the end of the month and I really need to buckle down and start working on it, so I'm belatedly trying to ration my game playing time a bit better. Wish me luck.

Aside from that, not a lot new.