Disruptions of Services

 Next week, I start a term of jury duty.  Every night, I have to check in to see if I am to report the next day.  Even then, I won't know if there will be a trial or if I will be selected to serve until the actual moment.  This will be the only time I will be mentioning my service anywhere on social media.  Of course, I can't comment on actual cases, but I won't even mention things tangential to serving, such as having problems finding a parking space.  I'm just too cautious for that.  Two weeks later, I will be taking my first online graduate school class after a two year hiatus.  Normally, I wouldn't do such work in the summer, but I found an authority on the subject who thought it would be a good idea to go back and finish what I started, even if it isn't the exact degree I wanted.  I'm currently planning on taking two more classes this fall.  Both of these facts have a bearing on this blog.  First, it means I will have less to talk about here. Don't worry about this part too much, though.  I already have ideas for my next two posts.  Secondly, and more importantly, I might be facing less time to write my posts.  When I first started this blog, I didn't own a computer.  I would close of my store a little early and go to the public library and use one of their computers to type my posts.  Wednesdays just had the best fit at the time.  Once I joined Facebook, I would post a link to my blog there.  I didn't have much time, so I limited my early post to only ten to fifteen minutes of writing, rarely going over.  Even after I got a computer, I maintained my Wednesday schedule, ultimately choosing mornings between ten and eleven to type.  I would also start including the actual hyperlink to a post on Facebook, as opposed to just the blog.  With the possibility of spending an entire day in court, two days in a row, this schedule might be changing.  Now, I could easily pre-write my post and schedule it to publish at the regular time.  In fact, I did this just last week, when I knew I wouldn't be near my computer at the right time. (Google apps, such as Blogger, can be touchy when you don't use your regular devices.)  It took me two thirty minute sessions over two days to compose that post.  I could do this again if I know I won't be by computer at the right time.  However, if I had been in court the day before, I will have to cram a day's worth of computer work into a few hours.  I might have to limit my typing time back down to under fifteen minutes gain.  This will mean my post could be half to even a quarter of their usual length.  Furthermore, I might have to delay the Facebook posts to later in the day.  Possibly that evening.  Juggling so much is going to be tricky, but I don't see any other way through this.  If worse comes to worse, I might have to move my blogging to the weekends, where I might have a little more time.  I will do everything possible not do to so, but it might be the only option.