Getting Busy
I’ve just put the finishing touches on a timetable for my weeks from this point forward after it has recently become apparent that my schedule is quite ludicrously busy. It doesn’t look any better when you get it all into a calendar: worse, if anything.
However, I had the period of 3-4pm on a Monday afternoon as one of light reflection: it is my time to write in this much neglected blog; and that means writing about what I’m up to, and nothing else, as the musical, comedy, sporting and everything else stuff which used to occassionally over-stuff this blog have all got places to be nowadays.
So into my timetable I have put events and jobs to-do. I’ve also included around 50 miles of running a week: if I somehow managed not to mention this here (writing about the running I’ve been doing isn’t currently ringing any bells, except that I briefly mentioned I would be running in the Great Edinburgh Run – which I did at the start of May). Anyway, I started running again quite seriously in January. I have run approximately 30 miles a week since then.
In fact, if you watch the coverage of the Great Edinburgh Run – which is a 10 Kilometer event – you’ll see me amongst the leading couple of hundred runners for the first few miles. I fell away quite badly (my stamina is pretty much finished after 3 miles at a decent pace, at the moment, I’ve discovered), but still managed to finish in just over 40 minutes, a time I was a little disappointed in, not least because I did a four minute better time in training! In any case, I’m running for 2 hours a day, and that’s about all of the ‘leisure time’ we have built in to my day.
All of this business is for a reason, though, as we’re looking to extend the 24 Hour Trading partnership this autumn; sell a few domains and generally improve upon the performance which has seen Linda and I develop a few wacky ideas into a 45-strong network of content based websites – some of which are market leading in terms of readership. For example, Remix.vg is in the top 10,000 websites in Lithuania*: a better claim to fame, I have yet to read in any webmasters resume.
In any case, what all of this means is that I’m getting busy, but getting organised. This is bad news for those of you who thought that we’d eventually shut up. If anything, we’re only going to be increasingly noisy. A good job, then, that I quit Facebook a fortnight ago in order to concentrate upon becoming 15% more effective at what I do.
*according to the incredibly sporadic and occasionally dramatically inaccurate Alexa ratings.
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