Splitting the Second

Oh deary me. So much to do so little time.

Once again I have somehow gotten my hours each day filled up.
I committed to reading 1 book each week of this year. Normally I read more than 52 books a year anyway so this is not that difficult normally. Yet I am struggling currently to make time for it and if I do make time for it I find myself falling asleep.

I am currently playing 3 MMOs namely World Of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online. Normally this is not so bad since I put a few hours into each of them. Unfortunately 2 of them have become very active lately and raids happen almost every night. Trying to avoid clashes of times between these raids of different games are becoming very difficult. I don't want to drop either cause I have good friends in both of them. Yet it is getting to that point. Then there are the other MMOs betas that are starting shortly. (Yes I am fully aware these are all self caused problems and that I am an MMO addict) If this was all gaming going on this could still be somehow manageable but besides these MMOs some of my friends have started playing L4D2 and DoW2 again and invite me to join them often enough. Thing is I want to join them and I feel bad when I tell them I can't come because of other demands on my time so I end up pushing these into my schedule.

Once a week is movies night with the Cape Town movie group (gathering of awesome geeks) I enjoy these outings since they seem to be the only thing I leave my PC for these days. On the other hand since I live an hours drive from Cape Town which has turned into a 2 hour trip thanks to road works going on on the N7. So I basically leave work, dress drive through grab something to drink with them watch the movie get back home and try to get 4 hours sleep in before I have to go back into work.

Then there is work. I feel no motivation to do my work at the moment at all. It is boring and frustrating. I'm pretty sure my work at the moment is to sit at my desk and just be there for when fingers need to be pointed. I am a system administrator of a very bad system which the company does not want to move from. The system would probably work for a small business that would be willing to change to fit the system, My company wants to change and manipulate the systems in such ways that it ends up breaking everything. To say I am a little fed up with being the scapegoat is putting it mildly.

Beside all of the above. Next month my Monday and Friday Dungeons and Dragons games are probably going to start again which will destroy what little time I have left for myself.