Sorry about the break, just Getting Organised.

One excuse for a five-week gap in blogging (to myself anyway...does anyone else notice?) is that I need to Get Organised about blogging. Slim down the categories, update the blog roll, investigate how technorati works and so on. Also set up better ways of finding and linking stuff among the growing heap of items, and providing better navigation to the longer pieces. Then there's what to do about two earlier sites on partnerships and community technolology that I have neglected for ages. Do I really need a separate blog on games? Organising all that should hold things up for another few weeks, because there's no point adding to the muddle is there?
I suspect this inertia is really a case of the August blight I face most years. August is a silly month to go on holiday, isn't it, because everyone else does so it is crowded and expensive. Since Ann and I are both freelances, we are theoretically free to arrange our lives as we like (subject to clients). So why not take breaks other times, and use August to catch up on all the Organising when the demands of projects fall off. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. I end up worrying that I haven't got enough work lined up for the autumn, and fretting that I ought to be meeting people who are, of course, doing the sensible thing and taking a holiday. My to-do list clogs up with Organising activities that I can't tackle because I haven't enough of the more interesting things to do to to get my energy levels up.
It wasn't so bad this year, because we did take a couple of weeks off in Northumberland and Derbyshire. But then if you go away there's all the stuff to clear up when you get back, which makes it difficult to Get Anything Done... and who wants to read blog items about holidays anyway? Thank goodness September is here, and a sniff of autumn (the serious time of year) can't be far away.