Saturday, July 2, 2011

In My Free Time

Sans children I have discovered this strange new selfish, free, invigorating, lonely thing they call free time. I have chosen two objectives with this very expensive so-called "free" time: 1) get in really good shape, 2) write a novel.

The report on objective 1 is all positive. 5k time is down from 30 minutes to 22 min 44 sec. Belt has tightened one notch.

As for the second, it turns out writing a book is hard. I have written the first 20 pages four times.

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