Saturation
I keep being told that we're in a terrible, terrible slump, and IT workers are starving out on the streets. Apparently it's really hard to get work these days. Despite that, I've encountered a monotonically increasing workload since the start of this financial year. Software development, code review, system administration, training, consulting, business management, broadband resale, the works.

I'm currently negotiating with a client who really wants two days of Object Oriented Perl training at exactly the same time as a milestone date for a rather large software project that I'm heading. That date happens to be in about two weeks time. In the same timeframe I had also scheduled needs assessments and SLA negotiations for four new clients.

And here I was thinking that I'd shaken that caffine addiction. :)