The Blog of Anders Nissen

tirsdag, december 14, 2004

Tough Conditions For The Work Drone

Almost Christmas. It's a hectic time of the year us salary slaves.

It's winter and bitterly cold outside. It's dark when work starts, and it's dark when work is over.
Christmas is called a "celebration of the hearts", but there isn't much Christmas spirit about the Danish weather right now. Not even a single flake of snow in sight, just darkness and cold and rainy weather. Brrr!

Good thing it's warm inside, and that there's candle light, Glögg, Christmas cookies and warm slippers. And it's a good thing that the Christmas holidays are not that far away, so I'll be able to spend time in the presence of my family, protected from wind and weather, and hopefully get into the Christmas spirit!

Speaking of things to do in my leisure time, I've recently bought Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as I mentioned that I would. So far it seems really interesting, and it looks like the movie followed the book pretty closely, but you do get some background information that the movie lacks.
Maybe there's more information in the Director's Cut/Extended version of the movie. I've signed up for a copy of Blade Runner - Director's Cut at the library, which I'll get as soon as it's available. Rather strange, there seems to be a long list of people signed up for it. It's from the late 1980's, so people have had a long time to run to their local library and loan a copy, but I guess it's just a constantly popular movie. Hey, it isn't called a "cult classic" for nothing.
And it just appeared to me, that the Director's Cut version might be rather new, so that might be why it's so popular. Oh well.

But time to read, watch movies, and just leisure time in general isn't what I have the most of right now. For instance, today I worked from 08 to 18. Including time to close my eyes and rest a bit, that doesn't leave much time for leisure. And then there's all those small things that need to be done. Like writing this blog right now. :P
Actually I've done a little bit of calculation, using Einstein's old "Leisure Time Formular" from his books "Theories on Leisure Time and Time Continuum". Of course that's a lie. Einstein didn't take any time off.
But anyway, here goes (time is in hours):
Leisure = Day - (Transport * 2 + Work + Sleep)
Leisure = 25 24 - (0.5 * 2 + 10 + 8) = 5 hours

Hmm. Yeah well it isn't that much, but there's still plenty of time to do all sorts of things. Or so you think! The devil is in the details! Those small things I mentioned can easily eat up 5 otherwise useful hours.

Now I'll hurry up and do something useful with my remaining leisure time before the constant value Sleep becomes a linear dropping value ;)

Take care!