I’ve been thinking alot lately about my various online commitments… And I’ve come to the sad conclusion that I’m tired of most of them. Or, if not tired of them, just too short on time to continue them. The PTRs I’ve been doing for the past few months take up about 4 hours of my day. That’s 4 hours that was previously used for TCG stuff, site update stuff, dolling stuff, QBee stuff…

Stuff that I enjoy, to an extent, but that I’m not able to fully involve myself in. For awhile there, this holiday season, I got back into the QBee, and determined to be active and an all ’round fantastic little member. But that lasted less than a month. I finally decided to close my own TCG, Bibliophile, and put myself on hold in the one TCG that I’m still in - that is still active, anyway. I’m probably going to leave that, as well. My dolling has dropped off sharply; while I still enjoy doing it, I just don’t have the urge to doll that I had when I rediscovered it ages ago. Its more of an occasional hobby now, at best.

Things with Nepheliad seem to have stalled. I haven’t contacted Carole, nor has she contacted me, in ages. I’d still like to do it - we had some really great plans for it, between the two of us, but at the moment, I’m just not moved to do so. Its sad. I was really excited about that for awhile. Part of the reason it stalled out, though was internet connection. I got the idea for it right around the time I switched form DSL to dial-up, and that just made anything TCG-related unbearably time-consuming.

I never did manage to upload all the pictures I’d wanted & put them on this site. I probably won’t get around to it. Its the sort of thing I might go back and do when Keslyn goes to school, but for now I’m going to keep them on my machine and just spend the time that would have taken enjoying her.

I haven’t gotten in touch with my best friend since… Christmastime. Which is a shame. I’d like to know how she’s doing, and how big her daughter has gotten. I just never seem to remember to squish stuff like that into the day. Truth be told, the PTRs take up so much concentration while I’m doing them that, by the time I’m finished for the day, I just don’t even want to look at my computer anymore.

And I’ve missed two birthdays. Or will have, by the time its a reasonable hour back in Michigan tomorrow. So, happy birthday to my brother Freddy Fred. And happy birthday to my friend, Derick.

And here’s hoping everyone else has more free time than me.