Time waits for no one...

You may have noticed that I’m not writing as much lately; I’ve gone from two or three posts each day back in August to two or three per week lately. I could just say that I’m taking some time off for the holidays, but that would be bullshit. I could say that I’ve lost some of my interest in keeping this blog or web-journal of trashpile or whatever you want to call it, but that too would be bullshit.

The truth is that my time is taken up with my primary role as care-giver for my eighty-year-old mother, and I find that I’m having to spend more time at it every day.

So I don’t have as much time to write these articles now. I can no longer write in the afternoons, and I can’t write in the mornings, as me mum needs more attention these days. So I can only seem to get anything done in the evening after she has gone to sleep.

The problem there is that I’m not really at my best in the evening, but if that’s the only time I have to write then that’s when I’ll write. It’s really not much of a hardship for me, since I usually write off-line anyway and post later, doing final editing as the text goes on-line. If my output has to suffer a bit until I get this time-management thing worked out, then that’s what will have to happen.

I’ve also got a couple of other irons in the fire, like collecting these articles into a book (like anyone’s ever going to read that) that will probably be available through Cafe Press or something like. And I think I’ve proved to myself that I can still write, so perhaps it’s time for me to take another stab at fiction. But that’s still in the future.

I really am looking forward to taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays; that part wasn’t entirely bullshit. But don’t think that I’ve lost interest in keeping this blog; I’ve gotten used to venting on-line and frankly I like being able to unload, even if it’s just a bunch of political crap. So I really am going to try to work out this time-management thing; but it’s going to have to wait until after the new year when, hopefully, I can give it more time.

So please keep checking in.

The Blues Viking

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