Tut tut, it looks like rain.

Well, truthfully it doesn’t really. It has been somewhat gloomy of late around here, and that has certainly cut into my unicycling, although the demands of my work schedule bear a much larger share of the blame. ,br> one somewhat depressing thing I’ve noticed about my juggling is that, since ive started working, i have really had to cut down on my exercise juggling.
ok this term is a bit silly, so let me take a moment to elaborate. i have several sets of props. most often i use beanbags since these are the only props i have four of  (well technically i have a set of homemade balls, but they are very poor and i hate them bitterly). i like the beanbags, they have nice dead-drop and they feel very nice in my hands. they are a very good prop for four, and i even have a spare incase i ever manage to make a stab at 5.
now, i also have a few other props that i only have 3 of–a set of russian balls and clubs. i also have a set of ExerBalls. they are a very nice size, around the diameter of a baseball. they have a very nice rubbery grip and they are filled with lead. each ball weighs about 2.35 pounds, so all told its around 7 pounds when you get all three of them going.
in my younger and more vulnerable days i juggled these quite a lot. at the time they were hands down the nicest prop i had (all the others came later) and i had plenty of time to juggle whenever my little heart desired.
currently, my time is so limited, and i find myself so anxious to improve my juggling abilities, that almost all i have time for are my beanbags. don’t misunderstand me. i love the beanbags. the four ball shower is amazingly fun. pushing myself to make those fast, accurate, throws is exhilarating. but i sincerely and desperately miss the sweaty labor of juggling with my exerballs.
part of it is just motivational. i am usually so drained from work that all i can think of doing is some casual juggling. but oh how i miss the endless hours of endurance runs. the tremble in my arms and the quick gasps as my breath falls into the rythem of the balls.
i just hope things at the paper calm down soon, and i find more time to work in longer, more elaborate practices.