Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Recently the only hours I have are occupied hours. The work situation is stable, but so busy that I don’t even take lunches properly any more. This has cut into my daytime light photography quite a bit. Not that I can find much in a 30 minute circle from work to go visit that hasn’t been captured a zillion times by more skilled hands than mine. So I’ve mostly been just working and trying to sit out this economy trouble thing.
My book reading has gotten a bit slimmer because there were no raises this year, and the promised stock options aren’t likely to be worth anything even if they are granted eventually.
So what’s been occupying my time? I’ve been turning to the only real option for such late night free time – video game racing and catching up on TV. I’ve been playing Gran Turismo 4 and 5 on the Playstation and rFactor on the PC. Both of them with the steering wheel and pedals. It makes a big difference. I’ve also been working on Battlestar Galactica, season 1. Yes, I’m that far behind. I’ve also got a mad desire to start following Formula 1 racing and my traditional baseball. And importantly, I’ve started going to the public library and raiding their audiobook collections. I’ve picked over the local library’s audiobook section, so I’m probably going to raid the classical selection next.
Why do I drag you into this whole dreary thing? I don’t really know. But I do feel that what few readers I have should understand why this isn’t going as fast as I had hoped.
I hope to start doing a photography piece or two, and I have ideas of what I want to do, but it requires daylight hours and I just don’t have as many of those as I could wish for.