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Yesterday, my mood was relatively good. We had returned from hospital the evening before, relieved that my wife didn't have to be admitted. It also helped that I completed a large task for work in Excel. The nice weather almost a confirmation of the relief associated with both.

Today, I have a wall of emails, a further backlog of tasks, and multiple meetings which will prevent me from spending time on those tasks. There is no indication of when we will be able to recruit the people for my team so I'm still doing everything. It's all too much.

The greyness of the day matches and amplifies the greyness of my mood.

It's been just over a week since I went back to the doctor and started on my meds again – just a low introductory dose that will be reviewed after four weeks. I know that it takes a while for them to take effect so I'm not expecting instant results, I certainly don't feel that they're doing anything yet but that's as anticipated.

# I've made a couple of tweaks – why do I sound surprised!

• The latest post on the home page is truncated again with a 'read more' arrow
• The RSS feed once more has a customised version of Matt Webb's pretty feed xsl stylesheet

I didn't want to exclude anyone not using weblog, nor necessarily people not even using omg.lol, so it is open to anyone

May is as good a time as any to jump back on the blog (I have put a few thoughts over at the Carousel) but I can't promise I'll post every day this month. Anything is better than nothing, and however many times I do post throughout the month will be enough.

I'll be keeping things restricted to just the Daily Feed.

Anne suggests bloggers choose a guiding topic for the month so as to feel more inclined to post. I suppose if I were to choose something it would be mental health but we'll see what happens.

# Still, currently in Preston Hospital with my wife so not an ideal start to May.

1. National Blog Posting Month, itself an adjacent to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November each year ↩