{"id":458,"date":"2003-02-20T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/"},"modified":"2003-02-20T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-20T19:45:00","slug":"458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/458\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=0 cellpadding=2 columns=2>\n<tr>\n<td valign=center><image src=\"bigdali.jpg\" alt=\"Pardon me, do you have the time?\" border=0 height=220 width=150><\/td>\n<td>I&#8217;ve been spending way too much time thinking about time lately. How there&#8217;s never enough. How fast it goes (dang, it&#8217;s almost noon!). How to get more done, how to set priorities, how to schedule myself better, how I should watch less TV, how to be wherever I&#8217;m supposed to be at all times, doing whatever is the most important thing to do at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is, it&#8217;s driving me crazy &#8211; there is almost never a feeling inside that I actually am doing the most expedient thing. If I&#8217;m at home, I feel like I should be at work. If I&#8217;m at work, I feel like I should be at home. If I&#8217;m working in the yard, and I haven&#8217;t had a break for weeks, I feel like I should be relaxing. If I take a lazy Sunday morning to read the paper, have a leisurely breakfast, and play with Em for awhile before I get to work, I feel like I&#8217;ve wasted half the day. In other words, <i>I won&#8217;t let myself win.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=2>\n<p align=left>One thing is for sure: I want to do more than is humanly possible within the responsibilities I need to meet, and the physical constants of the universe. If there are 24 hours in a day, you can&#8217;t sleep 7 of them, work 8 of them, eat &#038; clean up dishes two of them, spend an hour in the bathroom, exercise, practice an instrument, read books, watch TV, maintain and improve a house and two cars, take care of a kid, have a good relationship with your wife, learn a foreign language, learn to code html, keep your website and blog up to date, garden, and keep in touch with your friends.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending way too much time thinking about time lately. How there&#8217;s never enough. How fast it goes (dang, it&#8217;s almost noon!). How to get more done, how to set priorities, how to schedule myself better, how I should watch less TV, how to be wherever I&#8217;m supposed to be at all times, doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/458\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}