On the topic of work, road trips & writer's block

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It has almost been six months to the day that this blog has been updated. This is inexcusable and consequently here are the excuses;

1) It has been very, very busy at the shop. The crush began in August (the last blog posting) and has been unrelenting ever since. The simple solution would be to hire additional help to manage the workload and to some degree that was the solution. But as a business survivor of 2008 (remember Lehman Brothers?), you learn not to trust short term business trends. So you suck it up, put in long hours and satisfy each and every customer.

2) Contributing to this work crush has been the success of the new products at RedWingDigital.com. This is a new business model for us and it takes time to hammer out a smooth workflow. But if it were easy, everybody would be doing it. Look for new products soon.

3) It is supposed to be quiet in January so we closed the shop for ten days and took a long road trip to the most remote part of the United States that we could find. However, this January was the busiest January ever even with ten days removed from the calendar. It isn't fair to have a customer wait for my vacation, so it meant even longer days once we returned.

4) This stuff doesn't write itself, especially when you are tired and have convinced yourself you have writer's block.

That being said, I promise not to allow that kind of break in the blog pattern to ever occur again.