Time keeps slipping into the future.
I wish there were more of it these days. And no, it is not all work related that keeps me from having enough time, though I do fully admit that it is the biggest user of my time. Beyond that though is just time management. I am asking this, because I was talking to a friend this eve. A fairly close friend, though we have not spoken for almost a year (that is a whole other long story). But neither of us have time to work on armour construction these days, much less those blast furnace projects he was always experimenting with or the stupid things I would see about doing to make a process of doing something easier. And as I thought about, I filled up some of time in the last few months with blogging, but really not that much of it. And of late – the last few weeks in particularly, I have not even really had that much time for even blogging. So I am just going to thinking things through out loud here for a bit and see.
Fundamentally I spend between 8-10 hours for five days at some office or another. That few weekends, I have done another 3-5 hours on Sunday. And at least once in the last two weeks I put in some extra hours late one night/early one morning. But add that all up, when rounding up and you get a big number like 55. Add to that an average commute time these days of an additional 1.5 each time and now we are up to 18, but really that should drop back to at least 15, as I don’t make the long trip everyday – some offices are closer and sometimes I stay somewhere that is closer to the office. So that is about 70 hours.
Now consider the amount time of time I spend exercising and such. Well, I can tell you I do approximately 40-45 minutes roughly hitting about four days a week. In between days I try to get in at least 30-40 minutes of walking too. I will go ahead and bump this up to a full hour though, as I also shower after the gym at the very least. So now we are at 77 hours.
Okay so what else? Will typically I would guess another 10-20 hours per week of some sort of entertainment. Lately that can include a movie with someone, going to one of the coffee houses and listening to music (or some other musical venue), or maybe just going out to socialize some with some friends maybe at a my favorite Irish pub, maybe over just dinner, or maybe just at someones house. I will take the higher estimate here of 20. So that gets us to 97 hours total and I am going to go ahead and round to 100. If the rounding bothers you, consider it blogging/writing in my journal time and those lucid moments when I am contemplating the mathematical formula for describing how many combinations can X women have X children occur (yeah, it is deep – and no – you really do not want to know the reasoning that lead to such a question – look at the pure math of it).
So of the things that I can readily let my mind wrap around that I do the one thing that is left is sleeping. Now on average I am up until between 1:00 and 2:00am in the morning most of the time. Most often I am also awake by around 7:00am in the following morning, though sometimes I get up at 5:00 or even 6:00 and on rare occasion I sleep until around 8:00 But we will take the average here of roughly sleepy for 6 hours per night. Doing the math that is another 42 hours. That brings the total to 142 hours per week that I can roughly account for.
interestingly enough there are 168 hours in a seven-day week. Which means I am loosing just slightly over days worth of time weekly. And here I thought September had went by so fast because I was so busy, but the reality of it is that I have just lost 4 full days. Actually, considering 30 days for the month, 26 hours per 7 days lost, that works out to a 111 hours or roughly 4.6 days worth of time gone.
Wow, I am now completely realizing why I feel like that I am always a week behind at the end of the month. I see fully how come I am still struggling to get things done in September that were due in August, as at this point in the year I should be a full month behind of January 1 – assuming I was even then. Further, I feel that since I can not account for those hours otherwise, that I must have surely found a way for time travel to occur, or at least the speeding up of the time in relation to the space I am occupying. Maybe that is it. Maybe I am moving to fast in relation to the things around me. Now here is the killer about this. To those of you observing me (and here again is one of those lucid thoughts) from a stationary position, account to Einstein and something called relativity – this means it actually looks to you like I am moving more slowly. Now take this one step further and I completely understand now how come everyone thinks my generation, despite our numerous accomplishments are considered slackers.
Anyway the short of all this rambling (or the long depending on your perspective) is that I think this weekend I will have some time to get in a few blogs and if not, will it probably because relatively speaking it looked like I didn’t do much at some point, but I was probably just moving to fast without keeping up with what I was doing otherwise. And maybe I will get some of the rest of those pictures put up online as well (you know those picture essays – would you know it had hits on those this week when the pictures were not there – way it goes isn’t it?).
