Using my time

I wanted to write consistently at least twice a week, but I have found that I have very little time during the week. Compared to my first two weeks of work, my new job site cuts down on my free time considerably. I lose at least an hour and a half to the commute, and I’m also more tired because of the increased physical demands. If I brought my laptop then I could write in the car, but I’m not going to leave a thousand-dollar laptop in a location where it could so easily be stolen.

For the past two weeks I wake up at 4:45, get ready, and go to work without any down time. By the time I get home and take a shower, it’s about 5 PM. I might play a bit of KoL or guitar before dinner. After dinner I talk to Mom or play games, KoL, or guitar. About 8:30, I get ready for bed. I might read a little, but my lights are typically out by 9. I generally spend about an hour on KoL and 30-45 minutes on guitar, which I think is reasonable. That leaves between 60-90 minutes (depending on the family activity of the night) which I waste on other things and which could probably be spent more productively. Oh yeah, I was also watching electrician videos, but I watched all the basic videos and now I’m struggling to find topics that seem relevant.

What other goals do I want to pursue? I want to improve on my calisthenics, but an extensive session of push-ups, l-sits, and handstands only takes about 5 minutes per session and I wouldn’t do more than three sessions a day. In other words, it’s not even worth scheduling, but I do need to start doing it. In my current situation, I’m around a lot of Spanish-speakers, and I even ride to work next to one. It’s a perfect opportunity to improve my Spanish, so I should figure out a way to work on that. Maybe go back to that grammar website and finish it off with about 10 minutes a day, and then alternate between reading and watching TV for another 20 minutes. Sounds good. I also want to work on my knowledge as an electrician, but I’m not sure how to do that. It’s a research topic for a weekend, I guess.

Another research topic, though not necessarily for the weekend, is something that I can do during the commute that doesn’t require a whole lot of concentration. Rubik’s cube is one idea, but I’m not going to do it for more than twenty minutes, and I would be inviting ridicule for sure. If I find an interesting book then I might be able to make that work, but I feel that at the moment I don’t have access to any, and a Spanish book would definitely take too much concentration. Spanish grammar is a possibility, and I could do vocab flashcards too if I made them in the evening.

Once I move out, I plan to do cooking on the weekends. The weekend will also involve laundry, cleaning, and probably grocery shopping for the week (in the early morning). I’ll update my budget too, and hopefully play tennis with Jared. I’ll try to find something social to do once that becomes more of a possibility. Then again, if I start spending all day at church again, that will probably fill up my schedule.