I like posting essays in my blog, they help pass the time at night when I'm plunked in front of my computer for twelve hours at a stretch. I generally take my photographs home and download the pictures on the home laptop and store them in Blogger so when I get to work I can choose which posts to write up and publish. Working nights makes it easy for me to spend an hour or two on an afternoon before I come to work taking pictures for use later. I find the writing pretty easy as I am doing all this for my own selfish pleasure and unlike in my former life I do not have to hew to time lines, or a boss's idea of what my reality should be. I find the blog encourages me to get off my duff and explore and keep a record of my daily life. I'm not Samuel Pepys and this ain't the center of the world but I live in a rapidly changing community and if I get to be old I think these essays will remind me of things that I will find worth being reminded of.
All of which is to say I am taking a few days off because I am knackered principally by all the work I've been doing, over 100 hours this week of sitting up, staying awake and dispatching. My sense of humor is gone, my ability to concentrate is gone and my desire to get off the couch and take photographs is gone. This is normal when circumstances force me to work too many hours- it's happened in the past when I've had to cover too many shifts, so my feeling of total depletion is not unfamiliar to me. I was planning a stop at Solares Hill this afternoon for instance, to see if picture taking could recharge my batteries but I found the Bonneville's rear tire was flat (at home luckily!) with a big nail in the almost brand new tread.
Grrr! One thing I wish were different on the motorbike was that the tires were tubeless as they are easier to repair than the current tires with tubes. New tubeless rims are on my wish list now, before a rev counter and a belt drive! The Nissan Maxima is a fine car but...
Grrr! One thing I wish were different on the motorbike was that the tires were tubeless as they are easier to repair than the current tires with tubes. New tubeless rims are on my wish list now, before a rev counter and a belt drive! The Nissan Maxima is a fine car but...Anyway I realise I have set the pace of daily updates and now I have to break off a bit and sort out my Bonneville, my wife's Vespa needs a freshening as she is ready to ride again after recovering from her wrist surgery, and the boat needs to be launched. Plus I need to space out and catch up on my rest. For just a couple of days I think.
Phew. I need a nap.
