First, I must apologize. Earlier this year I made certain claims of having certain things ready to launch before certain, passed, deadlines. Those certain, passed, deadlines have, in fact, passed, and for that I am sorry.

The fact of the matter is that I have been very busy. And while everybody makes claims of being very busy, I am actually very busy - by any reasonable metric.

For my day job, I am a system administrator (among other things) for a consulting firm. This means that I am a consultant, which means that a baseline of effort for a quiet week hovers around 45 hours. My day job can easily exceed this.

In addition to this, I am involved in running a ministry at church for the Middle School peoples. This is not a negligible effort, as it includes 2.5-3 hours of participation on Tuesday, teaching a 1.5 hour class on Sunday mornings, and at least an hour of preparation for that class some time the previous week.

Whatever scraps of my time are left are usually divided up between leisure for my sanity, chores associated with being alive, and the Malex Media Network.™ This means that I have barely enough time to write a new Malex Minute episode every week, let alone finish the web site or create a new show.

The situation might seem hopeless, but I am experimenting with a solution: The “Everyman” Polyphasic Sleep Cycle. Or, more simply, long days.

As I write this, it is three in the morning on Saturday. I have finished sleeping for the night. I am sitting in Waffle House, and have just finished an early breakfast. I will write for the next four hours or so, followed by a twenty minute nap and breakfast again. I will then handle the rest of the day as it comes.

Unless I oversleep somewhere, I will only end up sleeping a total of four hours today, and I will do the same tomorrow.

As a side-note, I find that Waffle House is substantially busier than I would have initially expected. It is full of mildly-rowdy, costumed folk. Of course it is the evening of the Friday before Halloween, and the bars have all just closed. Having just woken up, I would venture to call this “Saturday,” not “Friday Night,” but I would wager that this entire room full of people would disagree... But that is alright; my computer clock agrees with me, and that is all that matters.

I will now proceed with finishing up the next batch of Malex Minute episodes. Feel free to archive the resulting, sleep-deprivation-induced drivel. I'm sure the scientific establishment of future generations will be very intrigued.

And I'll have to post another blog entry updating you all on my progress with this new sleep cycle later. So far it's been great fun, but I'm guessing I'll be approaching zombiehood sooner than later. We'll see.

ttyl!

--Alex