So I'm starting to learn the value in doing little things when you can, rather than trying to find time for a really big thing that you just can't find time for. See I've always been this sort of person who wants to be able to sit down and have an endless amount of time for one sort of project or activity, so I can make some meaningful headway. But who's got that sort of time now in a busy life? Not me, and I know friends of mine don't – well most of them, there are some exceptions – and anyone who has "manager" in their job title probably doesn't either. I figure of all the 4 billion people on the planet, at least 95% of them have "manager" in their job description. So really nobody has time for anything anymore. At least not like our parents used to back in the old days before computers were around to suck time out of our eyeballs. I realised though, if I add up all the odd 15 minute segments of my day that I spend sitting around doing nothing in between the big other things (normally for work), I've actually got at least an hour spare that's idle time each work day. Well, this is what I'm going to use to make time for things like writing – cause I never have enough time for writing – and other activities I really can't think of right now, that I always complain I never have time for. Very new age of me I have to say!
So I also have a countdown now for my first ever trip to The Paranoid States of America. Work is sending me over there, and I am going to experience finally what it is to see America and Americans on their own turf. Going to be interesting to say the least. Now that I know that America thinks Australia is part of the Axis of Evil , I wonder what sort of reception I'll get!
If I'm not back in a week, send me TimTams to gitmo!
Andy.
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