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Is the plural of hiatus hiatusi or hiatuses? Either way, I took an unplanned one last week. No writing, no podcast work, not much of anything but hanging out with people who were in town. Got to hang out with Blue Flavor on my soil, show a few of them the "New York office" and did plenty of sitting around in bars and walking in the rain late at night.

And now I'm back to work, both for Blue Flavor and the podcast. We've nearly completed shooting for episode three of MRTV and we're hoping to get it out as early as next week.

Answers to a few questions I've received since I announced that I've joined Blue Flavor:

Will we be moving to Seattle? Nope—I'll be working remotely from my home office in Brooklyn and traveling to Seattle fairly regularly to hang out and work directly with the rest of Blue Flavor. With Katia about to start grad school, we're going to be in NYC for at least the foreseeable future. Luckily for me, everyone at Blue Flavor understood that and didn't let it stand in the way of bringing me on board.

Will I continue to work on SimpleLog? Absolutely. Even more so. Everyone at Blue Flavor is just as excited about SimpleLog as I am, and I plan to continue to add features and better the application. It will remain open source, free, all that good stuff. Additionally, in the near future, I'll be opening up development to a few key contributors so updates will be even more frequent. I love SimpleLog and I love working on it and I'm not stopping any time soon.

Will the podcast continue? Of course! We're on a temporary hiatus while I'm at here at SXSW, but as soon as I get back we'll finish up episode 18 and release it. Have you listened to episode 17?

Will I write more or less on this site? More. I'll be working on some really fun and interesting projects in the near future and I'll write a lot more about the things I'm doing. One of the primary reasons I joined Blue Flavor was to get back to working for interesting, diverse clients and on exciting projects. In addition, Shawn and I have started planning some new short films so I'll be talking about that too. And, as always, I'll continue to write little bits of fiction.

Once I get back from SXSW (which is a blast so far, by the way) I'll be writing more about what Blue Flavor means for me, for this site and for Blue Flavor's clients. In the mean time, hopefully this answers some of the pressing questions.

Today I can finally share some exciting news I've been keeping under wraps: I've joined Blue Flavor! In the coming days, I'll have a lot more to say about this but for now I just want to say that I'm thrilled to be a part of the team and look forward to working with this fine group of people. And what perfect timing—Blue Flavor has just launched its new site.