My in-box is completely empty, which is a sad thing. (No, I don't mean on my desk. I mean my personal e-mail inbox.) No one wants to chat with me this morning, leaving me nothing to do but work or blog.

My 8:30 meeting rescheduled to next week, it's not time for my 10:00 meeting yet, and I feel like sliding into the work week very slowly, so here I am.

I love a long, holiday weekend. In fact, I'd like to have a three-day weekend every week. Many's the time I've toyed with the idea of offering to take a 20% pay cut in exchange for only working four days a week. Two things generally stop me.

#1 - At 32 hours a week, I wouldn't be entitled to any benefits.

#2 - A twenty-percent pay cut? That’s insane!

But maybe I could manage it? After all, once I manage to sneak a DVD recorder into the house*, what's left for me to buy anyhow? It's about the only really fun gadget that I want and don't already own.

I'm all about working less and having more free time, but I don't want to give up the money or benefits.** This should surprise no one.

Actually, considering that I'm sitting here dinking around instead of working, and this is a four-day work week already, I should probably just keep my mouth shut.

But. None of that is what we are gathered her for today. Or, at least, it's only tangential.

I'm blogging my New Year's Resolution. I haven't made NYRs in a long time, but this year I'm making one.

Except...now I'm out of time.

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* I need my OaT tapes recorded to DVD. Also, I need two decent sets of Sentinel DVDs.

Sheesh. I'm trying to write two Sentinel stories and three due South stories and at least two more OaT stories and I really don't have time to learn modern technology at the same time, you know?

It's a mystery to me why there isn't some fan out there who owns the necessary machines and is willing to do stuff like this, for a relatively generous payment, so that people like myself don't have to buy equipment and learn how.

A little while ago, I put out a begging letter to one list I'm on. We'll see if anyone responds to my offer of love and money.

** Okay, what I really want is more time for writing, and we all know it. I just spent every free second I had over the last three days writing and I still want more time.

I keep telling myself, in only seven more hours, I'll be home with three or four hours of solid writing time in front of me, but I also keep telling myself that by then I'll be tired and I want to be writing now. I hate wasting my most functional hours on something that merely overpays me grossly, instead of something that aggravates and fascinates me.