Watch this until the halfway point at least. I had no idea that this was so far advanced.

Cheers to helen_keeble for this. I sat and watched it open-mouthed.

I've mentioned before that I occasionally feel overburdened, that I have too many things going on, and too many calls on my time.

And so I've started (slowly) cutting back on my commitments. I was in on Monday. I'm spending tonight at the cinema and then at home with Julie. I'm avoiding booking myself into things every night.

Which is all well and good, but it doesn't really cut out long-term things, it's just a bunch of short term fixes.

So a couple of days ago I made my first serious cut - dropping out of the Amber game that fetket runs. In some ways this was an easy choice to make - although I enjoyed it a lot it's infrequent and it's not (largely) played by close friends. So when something had to go it was near the top of the list.

It was still a hard decision to make though - I don't like giving things up and detaching from social systems seems inherently wrong to me. I think I grew up in such social poverty that it seems infeasible to me that I now have too many cool friends to be able to spend time with most of them more than occasionally.

So, apologies to those of you I don't see terribly often. The most reliable place to find me will be in The Regent on a Tuesday evening, after badminton :->