Rip Van Winkle
Ill. by N.C. Wyeth, Public Domain

My, it’s been quite a while since the last update here, hasn’t it?

Rest assured, I am still alive and kicking. Just renewed my LLC for another year, and I’m hard at work. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve been doing and what I’m working on today.

2009
Started a part-time job doing electrical engineering to supplement the income from Thatch Mound. Unfortunately the job quickly turned into a basically full-time job, and sucked away all the time I had to work on The Naked Loon and some of my other unreleased projects. On the plus side, I earned more money in 2009 than any other year of my life to date.

2010
I left the electrical engineering gig in March, and have been spending most of my time since working on a new project that I’m really excited about.

Here’s the current status of my various projects:

• Seattle Bubble – Active and updated daily.
• Sound Housing Quarterly – Active, new issues published quarterly.
• The Naked Loon – In hibernation. I really hope to bring it back.
• Priced Out Forever – In hibernation.
• “Project PicSmack” – New! Fun! Exciting! Currently in private beta test!
• “Project Sahara” – On the back burner for an indefinite period of time.
• “Project Pubblefish” – Dead and gone, never to be released.
• “Project Madison” – Mostly dead. Probably not coming back.

There will certainly be more details to come on the mysterious new “Project PicSmack.” For now I’ll just say that it’s an idea I had about nine months ago that I think has some big potential. Hopefully I’ll have a big launch announcement to make here in a month or two.

That’s all for now. I’ll be doing my best to begin updating this blog again at least once a week. We’ll see how that goes.