Blimey… I’ve been so wrapped up in learning about machinima and making my film and doing all the various things that go with the show I’m in that I have seriously neglected my friends in both SL and RL as well as my family. I haven’t meant to, but I get so wrapped up in a new project that I just forget everything and everyone around me – it’s been down to my poor missus to all but frog-march me to bed at night for fear that I would just stay online shooting and re-shooting scene after scene until dawn.

The breaking point came when I got an IM from a good friend last night asking me if I’d fallen out with them as I’d dropped off the radar. I’d even missed her really important gallery opening and felt terrible! I was in the middle of a show at the time and couldn’t stop, so imagine how crappy I then felt when a second IM came in from another friend to invite me to his RezDay party and I couldn’t go – this after missing his recent shop opening too.

I got to thinking about all the people and events I’d missed over the last four weeks alone – I haven’t seen Pinkie’s island since she started to add the stream, I’ve missed Jazz’s new show, haven’t seen Janey’s houseboat once,  missed Dafydd’s wedding, cried off two of Natok’s events and stopped not only going to the CNN meetings but writing anything for them. RL is no better – I’ve not spoken to A, D or G for weeks, have not idea how M’s pregnancy is going and haven’t yet spoken to my London-based sister about her new baby.

I am, without doubt, a  bad Burro. I  don’t mean to be, I just get wrapped up in stuff that I lose perspective.

So, to all my RL and SL friends I have ignored of late, please accept my honest apologies and I will do my utmost to get in touch soon and stay in touch. I just need some time to finish this film, but that is my problem, not yours – I’m taking a chill pill as I type