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Resolutions

I’ve just departed from a major turning point in my life. I took advantage of my time between jobs by vacationing for 2 weeks at home in Miami. Who gets a 2 week vacation in their first year of working? After only 4 months at their job? Someone who just quit, that’s who.

While I was home I didn’t think about anything that was remotely related to work, either related to my new job or to any of the projects I’ve been working on in my own free time. Instead, I spent a lot of time either visiting with family, planning my wedding, or playing videogames. I renewed my feverish interest in the whole world of video games, and with good reason; I’m a game developer now and I need to keep my mind packed with inspiration and ideas. I also spent 5 days away from an Internet connection and kind of lost the tight grip my online life had on me.

So fast forward to the past couple days and here I am. I’m commuting an hour and a half each way to Silver Spring for my wonderful job as a Social Game Developer at Freewebs until I move to Maryland in the middle of February, so that doesn’t leave me much free time at home. I’m using my commute as an opportunity to get back into book reading, something I hadn’t done for years, and I’m close to finishing The Hiding Place. At work I’m happily busy with the kind of stuff I like to do most, so lately I haven’t even had the urge to wander off to Gmail, Tumblr, or any of the handful of blogs where I used to waste my time. In the evenings I’m trying to keep up a good diet and get some exercise, something I said I would do last year but never did enough. How much time does that leave for all my Internet involvement? Not very much at all.

So that might mean a little less blogging, or less productivity when it comes to my work on Blueprint or jQuery related projects. I can’t really say for sure yet. Right now I’m thinking that weekends will definitely be devoted to these things, but probably not weekdays. I just don’t have as much time as I used to, and a busy day at the office usually leaves me burned out anyway. I hope to relax more on weekdays, and sleep more, and just overall live with less pressure, and I think that’s a good plan.

I guess these are my New Year’s resolutions. What are yours?