I had every intention of actually updating at some point this week, but I went back to work and then remembered why I have no time. And today's xkcd is a pretty good demonstration of how my working day goes. Especially the bit at the bottom that says "Are you done yet?" "No, and the requirements have changed". This is usually when you're nearly done, it's 4pm and it has to be done by the end of the day...

I get back from work about 6pm - if I can escape early then it's earlier, or if I have to stay late it's later. But it's 6pm if I leave on time. Although annoyingly, it's also 6pm if I leave ten minutes late, because that's long enough for the rush hour traffic to have gone.

So then I have to cook and eat dinner, have a lie down because I haven't had one since I got up. During this time I'll also read my emails and RSS Feeds and Twitter feeds. By the time I've done all this, it's 7pm or 7.30pm depending on how long dinner took and how long a lie down I needed.

I have to go to bed about 10pm because I still need 9-10 hours of sleep because doing anything at all wears me out. So that gives me about 2-3 hours of evening. At some point during that time I need another lie down, so we're down to about 1-2 hours to get anything done.

And you can't concentrate for that long, especially after having concentrated all day, so you have to stop whatever you're doing for breaks, which leaves me with about 0-1 hours to get anything done in, depending on how tired I am. And the further through the week we are, the more tired I get.

Which leaves me with what feels like no evening at all to get anything done in. Hence why I don't get much done during the week. Although I'm sure some days I have more time than that, I just don't know where it goes...

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