After five months without posting, I was shamed into blogging again at the first Milwaukee area .Net geek dinner (thanks to Casey). I’ll take the fact that *Milwaukee* can support a geek dinner as a sure sign that the .Net platform has become ubiquitous.

It’s been an insanely busy year. I’ve typically been working on two or three projects concurrently – each with clients expecting to see regular progress. Since some of them read my blog, I’d have no excuse for not meeting a deadline but still having time to post.

But I’m not complaining. It’s a privilege, not an obligation, to get paid to do what I do. The day this becomes drudgery is the day I’ve lost all perspective. Anyhow, stay tuned for more posts; I’ve been implementing a lot with (and getting battle scars from) service-oriented architectures over the past year.