So... Not-so-hypothetical question:

[hmpf]

To make my life fit into my about-to-be-radically-reduced available time, what should I give up:

- vast majority of friends and online contacts
- jewellery making
- writing
- website building
- Collators' Den archive admin position (BTW; if any of the co-admins are reading this: what's going on with that?)
- sf-community board admin position
- fictionbox.de article writing
- the couple of forums I'm still active on
- Knytt Stories level making
- reading and searching out new fic
- Greenpeace
- vid reccing
- LJ
- gaming
- reading and searching out new webcomics

To be precise: very few of these things I'm currently really doing on a regular basis; most I sort of... cycle through, with some things cycling to the top of the list as rarely as once a year or even more seldom. Still, it's obvious that if I've only been managing to do these things on even this tenuous a schedule at a time of extended unemployment, somemost of them are going to have to go when I start working full-time on Monday.

Problem is, I can't really imagine giving up even the least important of them. Neglecting it for a while, sure. I've only recently started reading webcomics again, after a pause of more than a year. My LJ backlog is of epic proportions. Nothing seems to have been happening on the Collators' Den front in weeks, and I've been too busy to find out why. I only check out fic in my fandoms once in a blue moon. Etc. But the idea of making a clean cut and kicking things I love out of my life permanently hurts so much I can't really imagine doing it.

But there is no other option, is there? At least not if I want to stay sane...

Comments

So... Not-so-hypothetical question:

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

Well, as I understand it, we've been waiting for you. I believe you have the only backup of the Den, so we can't put it back in order without you. Last I'd heard from you, there were nasty virii on your computer and possibly your server, but you'd cleansed the problems. However, you weren't sure if you had a very recent backup that wasn't affected.

This is all from memory, as I'm writing from my mobile and can't access email while doing LJ on it. So I apologise if I'm misremembering, but that's what I recalled. Basically, it seems you and me are the techies. I thought T'eyla was too, to a degree, but I haven't heard a word from her since this whole mess happened.

Oh! Okay. Wow, I suck at communication.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Right. I just checked my outgoing mail and saw that, indeed, I never sent you the all clear. Which, in fact, I could have done about five minutes after that stupid warning I sent out, because it turned out my 're-infection' was just me being too stupid to use some aspect of my webhost's interface. (Maybe I got infected with the "Stupid Virus"? That would explain things...) So, basically, that last warning was a big whopping false alert. And I never let you know it was. Excuse me while I go and hit my head against a nice, solid wall for half an hour now.

Oh, before I begin, have a link:

http://www.allabouthmpf.com/backup.htm

Re: Oh! Okay. Wow, I suck at communication.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

I just clicked the link and went to the backup page. When I click the link there, I'm getting an error message about the link not being found. :(

Re: Oh! Okay. Wow, I suck at communication.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Heh. Apparently I suck at linking, too.

Try it now. The link still led to the place where the file would have been before I started reconstructing my website.