Tempus Fugit

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Time by Pink Floyd

Time flees
Time flees, time flies, time flows with or without us. It's been almost 6 months since my last entry. Since then my position at work changed. I'm now in a group that technology strategy and have an opportunity to use my graphic art and multimedia training. A happy advance. An opportunity to seize.

Little by little, step by step I'm continuing to gain control of my life -- exercising more, getting more done. The key for me is early to bed, early to rise.

Latitude, Letterman, and Longitude
In a recent article for the Journal of Labor Economics, “Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman, and Longitude,” authors Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers, and Mark L. Pocock researched the effects of daylight savings 'spring ahead' across the country shows that television, not the sun, determines sleep schedule. Interesting. Seems to be true in my case since late night TV watching seems to be the current main cause of days that are "frittered away." Days I don't give in to this impulse usually are my most productive.

I love the animation in the Pink Floyd video. I desperately want to do one like that. But in the words of Pink Floyd:

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

It's time to take action.