Throw it to me!

It is wierd how time flies by. Usually the good times fly by and the bad times seem to drag on. This is no more evident then with my home away from home, Summit Camp. It seems that the two and a half months I spend down there each year go by in the blink of an eye, yet the nine months until the next summer take forever. Well usually thats the case. This year is different. Time seems to be going quicker then ever. I have trouble believing it when I see the countdown to Summit 07 is already below 130 days. The hardest part is knowing that unless my life does a 360 I will not be apart of Summit 07.

So why is time moving so quickly? What is it that is keeping me busy? How am I using up all of this time?

Well work takes up a fair bit of my time. Five shifts a week. Hour commute each day. The fact that it is shift work and mostly evening shifts. I find that most of my days are wake up, waste a few hours around the house, go to work, come home late at night, crash out and start it all again the next day.

I have managed to use my days off to do things, but not very often. I am finding that I end up spending most of them lounging around the house. This could be due to the fact my social group has been declining over the past few years. Most of us are at that point in our lives that we have careers to focus on, significant others, and everything that comes with them, that take priority, and futures to be thinking about. Everyone seems to be going somewhere, yet I am at a stand still. I have my ambitions, and have done all that I can for the time being to make them happen. I am attempting to broaden my social circle, but to no avail. What is one to do? I guess I just need to ride it out. Eventually someone will throw me a bone.

So back to the issue at hand, how is time flying by when I am at a stand still? Has anyone else felt this way? Be kind and at least wave as you pass me by, I have a feeling I may be here awhile.

For the second time this winter

Back at the start of the month I hade the pleasure of driving through yet another blizzard at 11 pm. As we sat at work, each of us in our respective offices, we kept looking out the windows seeing less and less of the world around us and more and more of the blowing snow. All of the night staff were calling in saying they could not drive in. My collegues were all making arranements to spend the night at work. I, however called home and said “I may be a few minutes later then normal tonight”. Here is a glimpse of what I had to drive through, only when I attempted it there was not daylight. Thanks go out to Ginnia for the picture yet again.