Apologies

It's been quite a while since last I posted anything here, even when I had promised to do it on a more regular basis. But forces greater than my own had prevented me from doing so. Physical exhaustation mainly. I don't remember I have mentioned before what my dayjob is.

Along with some uncles and cousins I run a business. It's something like a stationery shop/internet-cafeteria/candy shop and it is located a few steps away from a High School. What I do it ranges pretty much everything from a clerk job to admin stuff such as running inventories, acquisition reports and requests, consumer attention and even a primitive kind of tech support for computers an copier machines. My work schedule keeps me there from 7 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. The business, actually two establishments located some 50 meters apart, are an hour and a half away from my place. That means that I'm home between 11:00 P.M. and 5:30 A.M. Substract enough time for me to have dinner and take a bath and I have something like five hours to be distributed among reading, writing, sleeping and being online.

Now, this is a time distribution I'm used to since several years ago and it had never before bothered me in any way. But as of late I found myself utterly and completely tired at the end of the day. Just how tired, you ask? I started a book sometime last October and haven't been able to finish it. My comic books are getting piled without reading and I'm only doing two of three at a time twice a week. The newspaper and various mags I read regularly are just getting a quick look-through before being piled in a corner of my desk. My e-mail is the only thing online that it's up to date and that's just because I take care of it every night at work right after closing time. A script for a five pages comic I was asked to do several months ago was just completed a couple of weeks ago and the corrections to it just this morning. A number of pieces that should have been published here or in La Hoguera weeks ago are in a folder in my PC waiting for a last look before publishing. Movies -other of my favorite hobbies- have been put aside in favour of more sleep-time on weekends. I guess I've been to a theater twice this year. And my house, or at least the part of it where my stuff is, lokks like a war zone.

I guess this come to show how my body is not willing to cope with my lifestyle anymore. Even with the fact that I don't drink, smoke or do drugs -other than coffee, chocolate and the odd hot and spicy candy- I have to realize I'm no longer 20. Actually I turned 31 a few days ago. And this have nothing to do with anxiety over my age or me beginning to feel old. I feel fine physically speaking and even lost some weight in the last few months, but I think that is a nice moment to stop abusing my body and try to change the way I manage and distribute my time.

So, I can't and won't make any promises about how often I will post, but I can assure you that I'll do my best to not allow the weeks to pass by without even stopping to say hi. And I'd like ti thank those people who somehow care or have the patience to go through my rants. It really meants a lot to me to know that there's someone out there reading this.