Taking some more time for my stuff

A few brief moments with the kids watching a movie offers me a chance to type this up! And…uhhh…what’s that hammering noise?

Okay, false alarm!

As many of you know (or will know pretty damn quick), I’ve been doing a lot of writing for a DRM News site that I’ve been running with a couple of other people. While the whole consumer rights/electronic media/and such topic is still of interest, I’ve been realizing lately that it’s eating up A LOT of time. I knew it was burning some time, but didn’t really sit down and figure it out until recently. Frankly, it’s kind of appalling. No wonder my pile of books/games/movies to get to has remained virtually stagnant!

On top of spending time writing posts, running admin, and updating the game sales page, there’s also the added time sink of dozens and dozens of extra RSS feeds from gaming, media and tech sites blasting ever more content in to my Google Reader account that need to be waded through for something of interest. And the general material from a lot of these sites either bores the shit out of me, or is so completely and totally biased as to be worthless garbage. But ya gotta look for that good little factoid!

This has been adding up to literally hours and hours of time on a daily basis. Time that I’d like to spend on other things. If we had more people, it might have worked out differently, but we don’t. And the time requirement has absolutely worn me out. Brad’s got a bunch of other crap on his plate, so I’ve been bearing a lot of the already sizable load lately, making it even worse.

So, as of today I’m shouting “No mas!” Technically it’s being put ‘on hiatus’, as we just don’t have the time to put in to it. Honestly, barring some drastic change, I don’t personally see myself going back unless the time requirement drops off. Especially once I’m filling time with other things like ‘a job’. Already, my Reader account breathes a sigh of relief as I cut out a lot of feeds that I really never want to look at again. Goodbye, superfluous bookmarks! Good riddance, excess of information!

Is it selfish? Yep. And I make no apologies for it. Sometimes you have to look out for yourself. And since being tired and bored and more annoyed and surly than usual (I know, I know…tough to imagine) isn’t fun, I’m reclaiming some more of my time.

And now, the REALLY bad news : this means I have more time to write content here, to pick up where I left off here (once the nieces and nephew are gone), and possibly crank up some other ideas as well. Hell, some of the stuff I WAS writing over there will probably appear here, only with just a bit more of a ‘venomous sarcasm and mockery’ angle. Be afraid…be very afraid. I’m going to blast loads of content all over your grillz.

Um…that actually sounded even more awful than was intended. I’ll leave it though, cause that’s how I roll.