The past four days seem to have dragged on like an eternity. I thought the last time I had managed to blog was over a week ago, but it turns out it was only Monday when I penned my last entry.

Over these past few days I thought of loads of things I’d wanted to write about; reams of insights, asides and footnotes to fill this article with, but can I remember any of them? No.

I’m not sure where all my thoughts have disappeared to, but I will try to salvage the last few ones that became attached to my brain with static or happened so recently that not even my goldfish memory could forget them.

In an unusual turn of events, the first three days of this week I spent in the offices of other designers.

On Monday I met Paul and Sarah, a local design firm who have asked me to help out on some of their future projects. All on a freelance basis, it’s another source of work and I’m looking forward to some collaboration in the future.

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday waltzing with Microsoft Powerpoint, creating an important internal presentation for a chain of hotels. I suppose that opting to juxtapose a graceful dance with a Microsoft Office application is like choosing to use concrete as a sandwich filler. The two things almost certainly don’t belong together. An added strangeness (like deep-fat-frying your portland butty), the whole process was carried out on a Mac.

This particular brief was an outsourced project from the firm that keeps Gaz and Ross off the streets, so for those two days I had to dig myself out of my bed at 6am to ensure I could catch the train into Sutton Coldfield. It’s not like 6am is unreasonable in principle; just one of the definite benefits of a home-based business is the ability to throw yourself into your office almost directly from your bed. Contending with thinking before 9am can be considered something of a novelty, and added to the whole ‘proper-job’ experience. I was both surprised and delighted at the pub-to-office hours ratio.

There maybe a few loose ends to tie up tomorrow, but essentially that’s now finished, clearing the way for me to bulldoze on with the remainder of projects that are still on my desk. Thankfully my phone has now fully switched onto the new network so normal voicemail service has been resumed and things are looking up.

Oh, and one last thing, I designed Nature’s campaign poster this week (she’s running for a Union Exec. post in Lufbra) and it was the first time I’ve drawn anything in ages. It was brilliant to get back on a sketch pad (see above).