Too Little Time
Astute observers – astute in the sense that they can tell the difference between April and May – may have noticed that my blogging has dried up more than a little over the past couple of weeks. The days have been flying by as of late and, while I’ve found the time to keep up on my favorite blog sites, I’ve haven’t had time to update my own. You see, I’ve been spending a large portion of those last two weeks at a location you can rarely find me blogging: work.
It’s not that I haven’t had thoughts. They occur on occasion. Some of them even include subjects outside of HttpServletRequests and “why the hell isn’t this working now”. It’s just that when you arrive at home at midnight, all you really want to do is sleep. And play NBA Street Vol. 2. You have to play some Street.
Lately I arrive home well after the house is asleep. The wife has retired for the night. I normally find her in bed and remind her I’m still around. Yesterday, I found her on the floor of the baby’s bedroom murmuring something about teething. It seems that working late isn’t hard on only one of us anymore.
Cam runs off to grandmom’s before I wake and is well asleep before I arrive home. Spending the week essentially without him has been a bit tough. He’s at that tender age where he changes at a incredible rate. Blink your eyes and he’s different. Spend a week at work and he’s all grown up now. Remember me? I’m daddy.
The whole overtime episode sadly reminds me of Hawaii, my location the last time I put in this much overtime. I imagine that there’s a ocean just miles away (both down and off to the side) that eludes me from behind the walls of my cubicle. If only I had the time to sightsee.
Now that things have settled down a little bit, I’m looking forward to seeing more of the sunlight and more of my son. I even hope to visit my own blog site a little more often. I can’t make any promises, though. A busy workday always seems to lie ahead.
