September

Overbooked

September's only just started and already I'm behind. It's not just me that's feeling it. Candace is getting started on reading the stack of books for her Masters Degree before classes start in a few days. She's also still moving her stuff in to our place from her old house. My daughter's schedule is full again of skating, piano and gymnastics and still no room for Aikido. I've noticed the past few years (and it seems obvious in retrospect) that September is more than just the back-to-school time. It's when everybody seems to stop relaxing, knuckle down and get back to work on whatever it is they do. I've mentioned before that I have trouble getting myself focused when the workload grows. I don't think it's an uncommon reaction to want to go out and do something different when everything you're in the middle of seems to get boring and stagnate. For example, I had a little success working on a web app login page the other day so last night I sat down at the computer to figure out the next step. And spent an hour-and-a-half reading xkcd. Not just the comic but Randall's blag too. That kind of took me full circle in a "holy shit how does this guy have time on his hands like this" sort of way.