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There's no getting around the singular concentration of proper handicapping. You have to carve time for it out of something else for sure. It's very mutually exclusive to pretty much anything else.
Much of your battle is for time to yourself generally, given your very public and social day job. So that raises the stakes of your personal leisure time, particularly in competition with your family time.
Last thing I want to do—more accurately, to be seen doing—on a sunny Saturday afternoon is sit at the same damn desk I do all week for work to handicap. Not a good look. Doesn't feel good. Like a listless teen wasting away on video games. And I'm a little older than you.
But that's when and where the PPs and races are. I've managed to identify a big race or two on a Saturday that I need to be present for, and allocate some handicapping time for, but otherwise attending to family stuff. Beyond being completely chained to my desk, obsessed, and checked out, my wife tolerates it much better if she can anticipate it, particularly if its scheduled.
Beyond that, I guess you need to pick your spots. Is there any time free for you that's less free for your family? Maybe some time when everyone's doing their own thing? That's the time to handicap. I suspect there's not much of that time, and it might not be ideal for handicapping, but it's a way to opportunistically approach the problem.
Not that you want to encourage family isolation. "Sure, junior, have another round of Minecraft," while you resume poring over $5k claimers at Charles Town.
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