Well, it's been about a month since I last blogged "properly". I've been offline for a few reasons; one being health (I've been sick, and am sick again as I type this), the other being I've just been quite busy with lots of things. What have I done? Well, I've been;

• On a holiday to Adelaide for 4 days for a nice relaxing holiday
• Enjoying my birthday
• Focussing on trying to sell our investment property
• Learning a bunch of songs for a Monstar concert extravaganza in 6 weeks (more on that later)
• Working hard!

Given there's been a bit of a break in blogging, and we're just over a 3rd of the way through the year, it's probably worth revisiting my goals for 2008 and how I'm tracking:
Completed;

• Have 2 incredible nights with Dream Theater...
• See that Huckle leaves this world in the most comfortable way possible

In progress;

• Move into our NEW HOUSE.
• We have a garage! It's all happening very quickly - I'm not complaining mind you.
• Ride the DWS wave at SDM.
• All is going well so far, coming up to crunch time when it all changes "for real" (July 1)
• Continue to grow with Aurora.
• This year has been spectacular so far with my darling daughter
• Go overseas again, hopefully for work.
• Stay tuned for more - in planning at the moment
• Surprise Steph with fun and exciting adventures, and little things to remind her that I love her
• We've had some good times thus far, need to do a bit more I think
• Hire some kickass people (to join the already legendary team) for SDM
• We've had some great people join the team this year - and it's only going to get better I think
• Continue learning the drums
• I'm not playing nearly as much as I was at the start of the year, but that's OK - focussing on guitar and Monstar at the moment
• Keep blogging. Target wise, again, I'd like to get at least 10, preferably 15, blog entries a month
• So far I've done 32 entries this year, 8 a month... I need to up it seriously
• Inspire some people.
• Not too sure how to gauge this one... it's a little bit vague. I'll try and do something on this...
• Continue to give support to those who need it most, including those people I do and do not know personally
• Financially this is well in hand, but I think I need to start doing some volunteer work (or similar)
• Speak to my sister, clear the air.
• About time for another phone call / email
• Learn more "management stuff" for work.
• Learning by osmosis at the moment. Have put the prospect of doing a course on the backburner. I have joined the AICD though and am enjoying that.
• Quit smoking
• Well... this one is a long story. I did give up for 3 weeks at the start of April.
• Have a bucketload of fun and make sure everyone else around me does as well
• :)
• Make some deeper connections with friends.
• I'm seeing a bit more of Sean (again, not nearly enough), and am consciously trying on this one.

Not yet started;

• Grow the family.
  

So, that's not so bad now. And a pretty decent way for me to go through the "update" blog entry, to make sure I remember to do the things I said I was going to do :)