Thank Goodness I Don’t Have a Hobby!

 There are many hours in the day.  Yet each day feels so short.  As many hours as there are, there seldom appears to be enough.

It’s next to impossible for me to keep up with my real life and my online life.  As much as I’d love to put more time into some of the cool things that exist in the ether, I simply can’t.  It’s a matter of figuring out where I need to focus my time.  I choose to focus my time on my real life.  My kids, if nothing else, sort of demand that.  No, they deserve that.

I will say this.  While I might not always have the time to read everything I want to read or respond to it all, I am out there looking as often as I can be.  The beauty of modern technology and socializing on the internet is that communication can be asynchronous.  This works out just dandy if the recipient is down with the delayed, asynchronous style.  At work, people expect you to answer E-mail quicker than voicemail.  And, honestly, it often works that way.  Clickety-clackety at the keyboard is quicker, cleaner, and less personal, but it also avoids the stuff that crops up when people actually talk to each other.  Networking on the internet is different; the expectation isn’t for immediate response.  That works in my favor.

So, if I seem to be a bit…disconnected…it’s simply because I haven’t perfected the art of balancing the ether with the material world.  There’s just way too much to do in both, and far too few hours in which to accomplish it all.  The “real world” requires synchronized, real-time communication.  The world of the ether accepts asynchronous, delayed communication.  Between the two, I keep myself busy.  Thank goodness I don’t have a hobby!