Here I am, a little over one year since I star­ted writ­ing journal posts every two weeks (or so). Recently my tempo has dwindled thanks to work­ing full-time. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop, just that with only so many hours avail­able each day I can’t always do everything.

At the moment I am liv­ing in Cam­bridge for 5 nights a week. I com­mute by bike, which takes about an hour each way includ­ing a shower and get­ting changed at the work end. When I get back after work­ing I brew a mug of tea and spend a bit of time cook­ing and wash­ing up. Once or twice a week my even­ing com­mute is diver­ted via a shop to stock up. By the time I sit down at the com­puter (my old laptop — not a fun machine to work on) it’s often 20.30 and I spend the a while surf­ing the web. After­wards I am pretty much exhausted for the day and all I want to do is watch a TV epis­ode or go to bed with a book. And so the cycle goes on…

It’s nice to be work­ing again, but I for­got how much your free time becomes valu­able. The week­ends, pre­vi­ously a time to con­tinue with all my hob­bies and interests, have become a time to recover and basic­ally avoid sit­ting behind a com­puter. My wrists and eyes are not fond of being parked at a desk for so many hours of the day, yet that is what I sub­ject them to.

Mov­ing for­ward I hope to catch up with some of my draft posts. I don’t know who reads this (espe­cially when I write too much in one go) but I shall con­tinue and strive to come up with new things to write about and per­haps man­age shorter, weekly posts.