I've been away from DA for a while due to the real world inflicting itself upon me in a variety of ways (not all of them unpleasant but distracting). However I have entered the second of the IDEAS 2005 contests and look forward to seeing how well I do I am slowly catching up the backlog of deviations, journals etc and should be a bit more active over the next few months. I am also thinking of running a contest of my own but I shall keep the details to myself for the moment.