finite amount of time

It's been a rough couple of weeks with school starting and work ramping up hard. I need another couple of hours each day just to keep my head above water, and those are just for me need the rest of the world to pause or something while I scramble to do work or read a story for a little girl. The best analogy I can come up with is having two wooden cups, one named family and one named work, half full of water with the top of each cup on fire and the only way I have to put the fire out is to pour water from one cup into the other one to fill it. But, if I leave either cup empty for too long it will burn down to ashes so I have to keep pouring the water from one cup to the other so that neither cup stays full for very long. That "water" is the time I have each day and I have to keep my "work cup" from buring down to ashes so that I can keep the lights on and the mortgage paid and such. But my "family cup" is the one that means the most to me.

scans and such

Well, back to the CT scanner for me. Thought I had all the pain stuff cleaned up from my accident almost two years ago but it has raised its' ugly head again. At lest I made it through the hike in the mountains of New Mexico with no issues. Hate being crippled up, have too many kids left to wrestle/soccer/basketball/run/jog/football/dance/baseball with to be "old dad" who can't run. At this point, chewing vicatin to keep active would be o.k., if it just didn't make me so sleepy . . . .