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Today I'm in the middle of moving my sites and services to new machines, finishing my new monitoring/alert system because last week monit failed to tell me a server had disappeared, I'm finishing the new CMS, upgrading bits of an old CMS, fixing problems appearing on the new servers, creating 3 new client mini-sites, and still trying to clear the 60+ e-mails that arrived while I was away on holiday. I've also written an excellent nginx control script, which I'll release on richardterry.co.uk next year.

We're also trying to buy a house at the moment - we've had an offer accepted, and it's very exciting, but it has involved far too much time on the phone and writing e-mails to the estate agent, our solicitor and mortgage advisor, getting quotes for surveys and insurance to cover the house, life, the universe and everything, searching for places to source kittens etc. Still, we now seem to have reached the point where all we can do is wait for our people to talk to their people and decide when we can give them money and move in.

Consequently I haven't had time to work on my own sites, and although I do have half of my holiday written up, I still need to finish it off and go through the photos before I can post it on here.

Things are so busy that I've only played the first level of Super Mario Brothers Wii, and haven't even unwrapped Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed 2, or *gasp* the GTA DLC, which all arrived last week. Feels like I need someone to come along and stop time for about 6 months, to give me a chance to catch up with everything. That, or recruit a fleet of mind-reading interns.