Dichotomy?

A good friend asked me earlier this calendar year...

- How is it that you live life every day going between life on the water and life on land...?
I kinda shrugged my shoulders and didn't really know what he was talking about...

but, the words have stuck in my mind ever since.

Days like today... I could go without living on the water.
Yet another cold front has slammed through this week. The winds from the north screaming across the river lifting the water to a frothing boil tossing wetness and sea jellys onto the dock. I got completely and utterly soaked walking to the sailboat today, and it wasn't raining. shoes, socks, pants. soaked. soaked with brackish brown river water. I changed and put my slicks on to walk back down the dock and back to the office. took my slicks off at the car of course.
These are the days I think it is seriously a pain in the ars to live on a boat and try to have a "normal" professional job.

working so much, I find it much more difficult to maintain a sustainable "happy" life aboard the boat. I'm considering moving off. I'm not really sure how I genuinely feel about that.
I just haven't found a marina that allows live-aboards that is close to work and doesn't have what I consider some kind of "fatal" flaw. There was my favorite dock (except for the summer bugs) that is over an hour away from one office, over 2 hours away from my other office, and 3 hours from the main office... there was the way overpriced dock on Casey Key with the smoking drug addicts and midnight boarding... there was the fixed dock that was nearly impossible to get onto during low low tide and that Athena slammed against because the "nice" dock staff would loosen her lines at low tide and not retighten them... and now there's the floating dock (which is cool, but) that is 17 miles, or about 4+ hours of motoring, away from the Gulf and sailing. It has officially been 3 months since I've taken the boat out; 3 months since I moved up this darn river. Sailboats shouldn't be up rivers.
It's definitely more difficult to find a place to live on a boat these days, then it is to find a place to live on land.
There are other things I miss. some things I could change about the boat in order to miss less. but, I just don't seem to have the energy with all the time consumed by work.
something big just slammed into the hull of the boat...
Perhaps, I don't deal well with going from boat life to land life. I just don't think the two mix very well. not as a low key sailor trying to carry on a full time professional job anyways... there's a lot to deal with. although, i guess mainly, my issues are primarily finding a good place to live that is near work. If my favorite marina was near my office, things would be so much better.
something just slammed the boat hull again...
Time to retire to my floating bed.
things keep hitting the boat hull...