Things have been incredibly busy and stressful at chez nous recently. The beloved is acting in a senior role for a couple of months, which basically means she's doing two jobs, I'm trying to get some serious work done on my PhD so I can submit before the end of the year (a little late, but not outrageous), we're looking at interstate business opportunities, considering getting some work done on our house (it _really_ needs it), I'm trying to continue to contribute to Habari, and there are all those other little bits and pieces of life that seem to take up so much time, some good some bad. Oh, and going to French class once a week. The long and the short of it is that I haven't had much time or brain space for blogging for a couple of weeks.

I try to average a post every two days, 15 posts a month. Most of the time I make it somewhere near that, but I won't this month unless some really exciting things happen in the next day that I really have to blog. So the question I have for you today is, if things are hectic and there isn't much blogging happening, but the blog isn't headed for the deadpool any time soon, should bloggers tell their readers (or reader) that it's temporary? Are you as a reader just going to be annoyed at a content-free post clogging up your newsreader, or do you like to hear this stuff from the people you read? Does it depend on who they are? Is a one-liner along the lines of, "Madness in the house (not the band), having a blogging break for a couple of weeks," worthwhile? How many questions at the end of a blog post is overkill? Oh, that's another topic ....