Let the Games Continue, and Continue, and Continue

As I have mentioned in this blog numerous times, as well as in its capsulated purpose, I like all sorts of games and puzzles.  There can be a problem sometimes with this pastime of mine.  For one, there really isn't enough time to do everything that I like to do.  For instance, last fall I was taking a few online classes for grad school.  The assignments for those classes took precedence over almost everything else.  Fortunately, I was able to make sure everything was done in a timely manner and nothing wound up late.  However, working my puzzles magazines began to take a backseat to other interests.  Instead of the usual two alternating quarterly magazines that I had normally kept in reserve, I soon had three to four of them on hand.  This past spring, I took fewer classes, but one of them had assignments that could take hours to adequately finish.  (I had to compose diagrams based on the syntax of sentences.  Each sentence could take an hour to finish, due to the exacting nature of my unfamiliarity with the Pages app as well as my own aesthetic standards.) Some days, I wouldn't even do one puzzle in one those backlogged magazines.  In contrast, I would always make sure to work a puzzle in my favorite magazine, Games World of Puzzles, whenever I could.  Add in three versions of Candy Crush and a few other computer games, and my renewed interest in tabletop RPGs just kept the backlog growing.  I was barely able to keep from having five magazines at once.  In fact, I still haven't really fully read any of my RPG books that have bought in the past year, one physical and six downloads plus four more downloads earlier this month (Yes, it's the last day of the month.  Every other day in July was "earlier this month."  I hate saying that, but it is the expected idiom.). Just making sure I do a few puzzles each day, while maintaining a steady winning streak in all of my games is getting harder to do.  At least I have the time, with my store doing very little business and having so few new books I would want to read.  My playing time is even one of the reasons why I have all but discontinued my store's blog, Booknotes that is.  Just coming up with something new to say about the store has just gotten too hard.  In fact, I almost didn't come up with a topic for this week's post.  This one just fell into my lap, as it were.  I almost ran out of time to even type this post up, but I was able to finish the back-to-school decorating for the store just in time to start this project, and finish it before it was time to start another project.  I was even able to work a quick puzzle while waiting for the wifi to connect and the email files to come up.  I'm just glad I usually don't work all of the puzzles in a magazine, or I would never have enough time to finish even one before I would have to get the next issue of one or the current issue of the other quarterly.