OK, so my posts of late have been few and far between. Why? A hectic social life? Well, OK partly. Mostly, however, it's been work.

Case in point. Right now, it's 1.18am. Do you know where your Max is?

He's hunched over a Macintosh, producing animated web ad server banners for such exotic subjects as "e-Statements" and "Instant Loan Approval".

Yes, it's the glamourous world of the website designer.

Still, it's beats the hell out of:

• Being unemployed
• My old job, writing tedious software for ungrateful travel agents

And believe me, even after six months of this job, I still remember how awful it was being out of work, and how relieved I was to finally get offered not only a job, but a job I enjoy, in a whole new field of IT.

I'm also painfully aware of several friends who have recently found themselves out of work. I've been through that, and it's not fun.

After all that, and as if I wasn't already grateful enough for finally having paid employment again, our downtown Denver office is right next to the block where several of Denver's homeless hostels and shelters are. So my drive to work, out at lunch time, and home every day, shows me just how bad things could be.

By the way, "Workin'" is the title of a Miles Davis album. It's playing on my stereo, right now. Click on the link to go to a page where you can here samples of it.