My life has been far too busy and I'm always tired. My current schedule usually has me up before 5 a.m. to get to work on time. After that, thanks to us only having one car, is a three hour ordeal to get home. This involves an average of two bus rides, the wait time for said buses, and a two mile walk uphill. In summer. This schedule ensures that by the time I make my way home I am both exhausted and sweaty. After a short nap I get maybe two, three hours before having to go back to sleep in order to be back up to do it all again. Currently I'm averaging 5-6 days a week, so I'm just not finding the time to blog. I'm not finding the time to do anything at all, really.
So that's my excuse for not updating in a while. My life seems so hectic and tiring that I haven't bothered trying to be productive creatively, I'm just trying to make ends meet. Sometimes in life there are long stretches where that is all you can do. My free time is limited, and even that is often full of bullshitty drama that I'm getting sick and tired of, but that's not anything I'm going into detail about.
I have managed to follow all manner of sports even though I've been unable to actually watch any. ESPN3 doesn't work so well on our connection usually. It's hit or miss with so many people accessing it at once. Between streaming Netflix, Hulu, Youtube and Ashes downloading music it's hard to get a consistent stream. Not to mention the somewhat odd and limited selection ESPN3 provides.
I would LOVE to watch the Tour de France since I'm a huge fan and it has been a regular part of my Summer for the last eight years. The only channel that covers it in America is Versus, aside from the French channel in Maine, and I only get the basic channels. It saddens me to miss out on this sporting event and miss Versus' excellent coverage. I watched the first few days when I was in Maine over the holiday weekend. Caught Tyler Farrar take home the July 4th stage for America, and since the US doesn't have a top contender all we can hope for this year is some stage wins. Farrar beat Cavendish and Hushovd that day, but I expect the Manx Missile will win plenty of stages this year.
I can moan on and on about the Tour but I won't. Watching it live isn't an option so I turn to Yahoo Sport's live coverage online which is pretty good. Like Cricinfo's match reports it has a very detailed live update system with a surprisingly cool graphical interface. If that's how I have to follow it this year, so be it. I'll get Versus in time for 2012 hopefully. I've also been following Sri Lanka's tour of England in cricket, which has seen some good results for both teams. The Tests seemed to go in England's favor but the ODI and T20. It's been fun to follow. I understand England have a series against India later this summer as well which should be even more exciting to follow. Indians are passionate about their cricket! I'm not sure if Australia's in action. If they are I'll make sure to catch as much as I can, that's my team after all.Now that I'm out of my recent funk expect a lot more posts. I'm attempting to find my motivation and if there's none to be found I'm going do damn well force myself to write anyway. I've been idle for too much of this year and that has to change. Trust me, this is a good thing. I won't waste the few hours I have each day.
Well I'll be briefly on hiatus after this coming Tuesday since the fifth book in George R. R. Martin's fantastic A Song of Ice and Fire series is released after the longest six years of my life. I'll hammer that out real quick and get back to writing in short order.
