Okay, it's time for my monthly post again. I need to see about cranking this back up to weekly, and then maybe even more! We'll see.
I spent a four day weekend in Lodi watching the wife's sister get married. Actually, I watched from a prime viewing location, at the front of the crowd, as I performed the ceremony (in a role I don't get to use often, though I might want to do more):
http://www.simreal.com/fr_edwin.jpg
And yes, I am ordained in a Gnostic church, with an ordination pedigree from the catholic lines... it's.... complicated.
I haven't written any new story words since early June and that's killing me -- but things have been hectic, and I have been tired. Very tired. Right now I'm about to begin skipping tonight's Taichi, which will put me further behind, which will make Monday all that much harder. To justify it, I will have to study the form some, try to catch up, to balance the cost. Maybe even get ahead.
I'm on the fast track to finishing my CS degree -- a task I've been putting off for decades. I'm blowing through classes right now at a rate that justifies my tiredness, but it's destroying my weekends.
I miss having project time. Is it time for my schedule recap? I think I'll skip that today.
I want to... to... build a vision-guided robot arm; write a CAD package; do some web/text-based agent AI; compete in robot combat (I've been talking to a guy online who does, and it reminds me of how fun it sounds); write more; edit more; send my stories in to magazines; but first organize my list of magazines; and it goes on.
This is on top of the usual stuff; not cleaning the house; not doing the dishes; not cooking; not working on the yard; not maintaining the house. Hey, not doing chores is hard work!
The day job is in a design phase, just about to transition through reviews and into implementation. I'll have prototype hardware in my hot little hands in three weeks or a bit less... so that's fun! Or will be. I hope. Unless I get pulled off onto one of three other high priority projects that also need attention.
Don't you just hate those people who use their journals as a forum to gripe? Yeah, me too.
I'll try to be more cheerful next time.
Until then,
I remain,
Cranky.