It’s difficult to find a good balance for your information stream these days. I try to keep the process as simple and automated as possible, but it’s really hard. There are RSS feeds and there’s real life, and sometimes it’s just plain impossible to combine the two.

I have installed an RSS reader on my PC solely tracing comments on my favorite blogs. I use Google Reader and Netvibes (Google Reader is taking over, though) and in my bookmarks I keep a “Daily” folder in addition to a whole bunch of theme folders that I scroll through quite frequently.

But there are just so many minutes to get through it all every day. I get up at 5 in the morning, and spend 45 minutes reading general news and some tech stuff before I go to work. I rarely find the time to read RSS feeds at work, and when I get home in the afternoon there’s my wife and two kids.

They’re very lovely and they’re the center of my life, but they’re also, let’s face it, very time-consuming. So when I get home from work, we’re cooking, eating and cleaning up after dinner, playing with the kids, doing some laundry, cleaning a bit and putting the kids to bed at 7.

Then me and my wife spend some time together, updating each other on today’s events, discussing and planning the next few days, unless one of us must go out to do the shopping - which is about every other day.

And finally, at 8-8.30, I can sit down by my computer while my wife turns on the tv. I spend an hour or two scrolling through my feeds, maybe posting another blog entry, recording some music or reading a book.

It’s a busy life.

Is it a good life? Sure it is. I love my wife and kids, and I love every minute I spend with them. It’s also quite exhausting, and I would really like to slow down a bit and work a little less, while maintaining our income level. Any clues?