Writer's bloc

I realise that after something of a flurry a wee while ago (thanks for noticing fingers), I have dried up for a bit on the old UO front. I have a pretty crap excuse -work- I have been working on a deal for the last few weeks with every man and his dog involved. The good thing about that is of course that the man doesn't tell the dog what he is doing, which means that the dog has carte blanche to go and do its business anywhere it likes, which apparently seems to be in my office. Relax, this is still a (tortured) metaphor, nobody has been taking a dump on my keyboard, but you get the idea.

It had, however, sucked any vestiges of creativity out of me when on two consecutive days when the deal was meant to sign and I was wandering around the city with a cheque with a very attractive number of zeros on it, one of the powers-that-be decided to re-cut the deal. Nevertheless, last night it was done.

Ok, minor whinge over. For now. The challenge this morning was to find something to tell you all - sitemeter tells me that you are both very loyal readers, so I guess I gotta feed the beast. Failing anything popping into my head to entertain you with, however, I have a dilemma for you to help me with. I need a holiday, as I am going to go postal here at some of the cretins I have to deal with on a daily basis if I don't get away for a bit soon. That much is easy.

Problem is that I would like any holiday of more than a week to involve going to Danishland. I would love to go and see the Dane, but she is just starting a new job, and therefore can't really take any time off. So I would basically be spending my days sitting in her apartment or wandering the streets of her home town. Don't get me wrong, it is a pretty hip and happening fishing village with no less than 10,000 inhabitants, but I need to do something fun at the moment, and seeing her nights is certainly better than nothing (seeing her at all would be good, let's face it), but I would like to have something for the days too, know what I mean? It isn't particularly easy to get extended periods of time off work, so I would prefer to save the bulk of my leave for when she can take a break too.

So tell me, am I being a completely selfish bastard for thinking this way, and wondering whether I can do something else for a break for now?

Think of this as an advice column, but one ASKING for advice, not giving it. We will return to your normal, hilariously entertaining and insightful programming shortly.