Life is kind of boring, these days, and I guess I'm OK with that. I've spent the summer in a kind of workaholic hibernation – while working, I've been working hard and pretty focused, but I'm not actually working that much, at least relative to the kind of hours I used to put in as a database programmer. So, never exceeding 50 hours per week, certainly, whereas there was the spring of 2006 when I easily put in well over 80 per week.
You'd think, then, that I have lots of free time, still, to do various things. … pursue various hobbies. What are my hobbies and pasttimes? I claim several. Here is a progress report on my hobbies and pasttimes – I assign points on the basis of how I feel I'm doing in these pursuits relative to how I wish I could be doing, ideally.
1) I blog. Evidently – you're looking at it. Progress: seven out of ten points.
2) I write. Not this blog, I mean, but my novels and stories. Progress: one of out ten points.
3) I study Korean. I really do… not as well or as dedicatedly as could be hoped, though. Progress: four out of ten points.
4) I hike (both rural / mountain hiking and "urban" hiking, which is really just exploring-on-foot). Progress: two out of ten points.
5) I read. Books. Stories. Texts. Progress: six out of ten points.
6) I jog. I was jogging really well at the first part of summer. 3 or 4 times a week, 3 to 5 km each time. Then it got rainy. Then it got hot. And I got lazy, or something. Actually, I hate jogging. But I really need the exercise. Really, really, really. Progress: one out of ten points.
7) I cook. I like cooking for myself, I like messing around with food in my underequipped "kitchen." But I don't do it much, even though whenever I do I'm satisfied and pleased with having done so. Progress: two out of ten points.
8) I meditate and do "buddhist"-type things. In an entirely atheistic way, of course. I have a semi-lapsed zen practice, of sorts. Progress: two out of ten points.
So much for progress.