As I am now the sole breadwinner in the household and have a son who is not yet old enough to farm gold on World of Warcraft (the modern-day equivalent of going up a chimney or down a mine), I now have to take the whole money-earning thing more seriously.
Unfortunately, it turns out that earning money makes you considerably more tired than messing around and I have been trapped in a system of two rotating balls. The first ball is free time and the second ball is enthusiasm. They rotate in opposite directions:
When combined, the rotating balls define a complicated curve on which, mostly, you are in the middle:
But sometimes you get very high...
and sometimes you get very low:
I call this system the 'Double Boethius' after the Roman philosopher who invented the wheel of fortune - at least according to Christopher Eccleston in the film 24 Hour Party People.
My balls have been relatively low but I feel that I am now entering a period of high Free Time and Enthusiasm so I hope to be more active on the blog front over the next few weeks.
If you who are signed up to my blogging mailing list, remember this: though you may be spammed as many as 2 times a week for a short while, soon my balls will be low and there will be a blog drought once again.
My son also feels the benefit. This morning I made him a robot costume which he loved...
but by this evening he was scared of it. The wheels turn.
Nice post - but you need to brush up on your artistic skills if you think that cutting three holes in a a box equates to "making a robot costume." - Cool pic though! See you Fri
ReplyDeleteExcellent robot costume. Al is wrong. X
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