Sorry I've been a bit remiss in writing entries. The last two weeks were a bit crazy. First, I was rushing to get the book done. As you know, I finished writing a few weeks ago, but then I had to do the author review, when I get all of the comments back from the copy and tech editors and have to make revisions. So that took some doing, but I'm happy to say that I finished that up last Friday. I'm going to enjoy some free time this week - it will be a bit strange to have a train ride to San Francisco this week and not have any writing to do - but I am working on a proposal for my next book already, so we'll see if the publisher accepts that so that I can move forward.

Second, I've been insanely busy even without the writing. Two weeks ago, I had something going on almost every night. Monday and Thursday were both teaching nights, and Tuesday and Wednesday were back-to-back user group events for the CS4 release. Then last week, I ended up teaching a class (PHP) during the day, with a one-on-one ActionScript each evening for an hour after that. On Thursday, I set a personal record by teaching 3 different classes in one day - PHP from 9-4, ActionScript from 4-5, and the HTML from 6-8. Yikes.

But the good news is that things are much slower this week. Today is a special family day thanks to Columbus Day. We're going to take the kids to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm, and I'll try to post some pictures later on. Tomorrow is my first day off where I don't have to either be writing or feel bad about not writing in a long time, so I plan to enjoy that. Then I'm off to SF for the remainder of the week. I'll be attending the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group meeting on Weds and the meeting of the local Flash user group - very creatively named San Flashisco - on Thurs. I also plan to try to squeeze in a movie or two, so it will be fun.

And I will get back to tech-related posts soon ...