It’s FAQual Friday again, and a very special one, indeed!

A lot of people ask me how I manage to get so much done each day. What with exercise, work, projects around the house, I barely have enough time to breathe, let alone take on life’s more important things — yes, like blogging!

So what if there were more hours in the day? Hmm, like 25. You could do all the things you normally do and then have an hour for yourself. But why stop there? Why not 80?!

Well I think I’ve done it. I think I’ve actually invented an 80-hour day!! It might need a few tweaks. You see, there’s this problem with the space-time continuum and the gravitational coefficient of… well the axis of polarization and… there’s the angular momentum of the…

Maybe it would be easier if I just demonstrate how it works with a tour of my very own daily routine.

If you saw my tuesday post, you may think that I get up at 4:30. How quaint, the 60-minute hour! Nope, not anymore. Now I get up at 15:00. I hope I don’t hit the snooze button and spend another half hour in bed!

From 15:00 to 16:12, I catch up on urgent e-mails that have arrived during the night and if I’ve already written a post, I’ll click the Publish button so you all can see it.

At around 16:12 I try to start my workout, so I can be done by 18:06. It takes me almost two hours to shave, shower, and get dressed. I try and be done by 20:00, so I can wake up Wifey. By about 20:15, we’re downstairs. We spend the next four hours or so drinking our coffee, talking, playing with the dog. It’s very relaxing!

I leave the house about 24:00 and my commute is about two hours, but some days it can be even longer, sometimes up to 45 minutes! But by 26:12 I’m usually at work and of course I get right to it! Sure, there’s about an hour for tea and blogging around 33:00 and then a couple hours for lunch around 39:00. And I sometimes take another hour for goofing off in the afterforty, but I’m mostly working until well past 57:00.

I try to be home by 60:00 and Wifey and I will have some wine and talk for a couple hours while she’s making dinner, and then after dinner we watch TV until about 70:00. After that we go upstairs and read for a while or do crossword puzzles, stuff like that. But I try and get to sleep by 74:00. If I don’t get at least 21 hours of sleep, how will I get up and do this all over again?!

It’s not easy squeezing 80 hours into one day. But with enough caffeine and a good calculator, it really can be done!!