And the only prescription... is more sporadic website updates cowbell !
In my last Pants update way back in August I mentioned that I was feeling a bit under the weather thanks to a certain fever. Unfortunately instead of Peggle fever, cowbell fever or yellow fever (or any of the other fevers I wouldn't mind getting...), the fever I had was in fact glandular fever. And it sucks to be me because here I am three months later and it's still hanging around, meaning I'm still feeling quite fatigued at times and often a little braindead.
I took almost a month off work to try and recover but now I'm back at work again. In theory my break from work could be considered a holiday, but the most I got up to for that month was a few hours of Peggle each day in between 16hr+ sessions of deep sleep. It was most unfortunate timing for me, considering that one of my other big passions in life (aside from Peggle) is my fondness for stupidly expensive sexy camera equipment.
You see, just a week before glandular fever hit me bad, I went out and bought a new DSLR camera — a Canon EOS 1D mkIII, the smooth & svelte outline pictured below:

The EOS 1D is one of Canon's flagship cameras and it is a huge step up from what I was using previously for most of the photo galleries currently on the site. I'd talk more about the camera (and I probably will later...), but I can't say too much at the moment because I haven't actually had a decent chance to use it yet thanks to my god-damn chronic fatigue. Sniff... :(
I have used it a little bit since I bought it in August (and already know it was definitely money well-spent), but given my illness and my workaholic-ness I'm yet to give the camera a proper workout yet. What I can do though is post couple of sample shots from a few events I've shot so far. The general consensus of the feedback I get is that I'm waaaaay behind with my photo gallery updates (duh!) so I figure this will give Pants visitors something to look at until I get all the proper photo galleries sorted out.
The three shoots posted below don't really have a common theme aside from the fact that they were all shot with my new EOS 1D and they each had an unknown or foreign element to them, which is about the most tenuous link I can think of to group all three shoots together...
And although you don't even know who I am, I hope you had a happy birthday today Fiorella. :)