:: 48 Hours ::
10:27 | view comments
I've been offline for 48 hours. Well, maybe 47, but considering how bored I was during the past couple of days, you could probably count it as double that. Unfortunately, now that I'm back on my computer, my brain is dead. Two days of inactivity, and my mind has shut down.
Fine, I'm exaggerating. I'm writing now, so obviously, something's still ticking up there. The problem is, the restlessness that I've been desperately trying to get rid off the past couple of days has finally gone. That should be a good thing, but now this restlessness been replaced by a lethargy that refuses to let me get out of bed.
I hope a long drive out of town will cure this. This drive will take me offline for roughly half a day - I wish I could have taken this drive yesterday when we had no power. This time though, staying away from the net should do me good. I'll be using my head some other way, an I'll be busy enough, at least, to keep my brain from atrophying.
I seem so pathetic, and self-centered too. The past three paragraphs have all been "I" and "me." This one is turning out the same too. I don't care. My brain isn't working well enough to worry about things like that. The only thing I want is to write something about the past few days. If not for sudoku, some books, and a long night out, I probably would've gone crazy. Thankfully, that's only partly true.
I need to arm myself for life away from the computer and the television. My shelves are stocked with books and magazines, but I've read and re-read practically everything there. Heck, I had to resort to borrowing somebody else's magazines just to read something "fresh" yesterday.
The problem is my life has been swallowed by the computer. My reading materials now are blogs and other articles online. My puzzle-solving lately has been limited to Web Sudoku. With no power feeding my laptop, my world suddenly went dark. I can't let that happen again.
There is life outside the Net, isn't there? Help me find it.
10:27 | view comments
I've been offline for 48 hours. Well, maybe 47, but considering how bored I was during the past couple of days, you could probably count it as double that. Unfortunately, now that I'm back on my computer, my brain is dead. Two days of inactivity, and my mind has shut down.
Fine, I'm exaggerating. I'm writing now, so obviously, something's still ticking up there. The problem is, the restlessness that I've been desperately trying to get rid off the past couple of days has finally gone. That should be a good thing, but now this restlessness been replaced by a lethargy that refuses to let me get out of bed.
I hope a long drive out of town will cure this. This drive will take me offline for roughly half a day - I wish I could have taken this drive yesterday when we had no power. This time though, staying away from the net should do me good. I'll be using my head some other way, an I'll be busy enough, at least, to keep my brain from atrophying.
I seem so pathetic, and self-centered too. The past three paragraphs have all been "I" and "me." This one is turning out the same too. I don't care. My brain isn't working well enough to worry about things like that. The only thing I want is to write something about the past few days. If not for sudoku, some books, and a long night out, I probably would've gone crazy. Thankfully, that's only partly true.
I need to arm myself for life away from the computer and the television. My shelves are stocked with books and magazines, but I've read and re-read practically everything there. Heck, I had to resort to borrowing somebody else's magazines just to read something "fresh" yesterday.
The problem is my life has been swallowed by the computer. My reading materials now are blogs and other articles online. My puzzle-solving lately has been limited to Web Sudoku. With no power feeding my laptop, my world suddenly went dark. I can't let that happen again.
There is life outside the Net, isn't there? Help me find it.