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There isn’t even close to enough time in my life to achieve everything I want too. I have to be selective. Work seems to take up about 36.25 hours per week (funny that) and that leaves me with only 131.75 hours. Out of that 131.75 hours I need to spend at least 56 sleeping or I don’t function very well, that leaves me with only 75.75 hours. Out of the remaining 75.75 hours I estimate that 7.5 are used travelling to and from work and 7.5 hours getting ready to go to work. That leaves me with only 60.75 hours.

That’s 60.75 hours to:

• Relax
• Have fun with friends
• Do uni work (that’s supposed to account for another 24 hours each week - it doesn’t quite)
• Do other work (yes I have two jobs)
• Exercise
• Cook, eat and clean
• Stuff about on the computer with various projects
• Garden
• Upkeep the yard (as distinct from gardening)
• Perform general home maintenence (like fixing the damn dripping taps)
• Anything else that might just pop-up.

If only there were more hours in the day.

I really did want to get a post together for today but I just couldn’t think of anything to say. So I’m just going to ramble on for a bit.

I really didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning (not that that’s much different from most other mornings) because it was raining. It makes for a very relaxing day but kind of shits me as well because I’m going camping for the weekend. Let’s hope it clears up before tonight. The fact I had soccer at 9:45pm last night doesn’t help my ability to get out of bed. I didn’t get home until after 11pm and I’m really not used to staying up until 2:30am on a week night (as happened in Sydney on Tuesday).

Easter is coming up and Laura and I are going to take the opportunity of a couple of days off work to hit the Brisbane wedding/ reception venues and see if we can’t put together some sort of short list. We also hope to nail down a date.

Uni is in full swing and taking up no where near enough of my time yet. Browny and I are doing the IT Project subject this semester; our project is to build a website for the Shin Dig Social Group. I’ll put the web address up here when there is actually something to look at. We are building it in PHP using a MySQL database - neither of us has used PHP extensively before so it should be a fun learning task.

The word ‘prolix’ meaning:

\pro-LIKS; PRO-liks\, adjective: 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy. 2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length.

Apparently this is one of Kim Beazley’s favourite words.

Following is an exchange of emails between me and my mate [Anonymous] who is an accountant. Most professional service firms record every minute of every employee’s day. He has to break his day into six minute blocks and at least 85% of his time must be billed to a client (and he has to come in under budget for each client).