So, in the wake of the incident that we shall hereinafter refer to as The Unpleasantness, I've been taking advantage of my newly-freed time to do things like an archeological dig through the accumulated stacks of paper in my designated inbox, the re-folding and re-organizing my T-shirts in alphabetical order and taking a pair of suede shoes I ( Read more... )

Folders. For Apps. Before this, I was rearranging my app screens so all the music stuff was in one row, all the social media stuff was in another row, etc., so I could get to things that were related fairly easily. Now I just drag apps on top of each other to form wee sub-app buttons that allow me to toss things in buckets instead of rearranging ( Read more... )

So I'm in one of those 'clear things off of the To Do List so I can think straight' kind of moods and as a result I finally installed the new needle on my long-neglected turntable and I'm now listening to my vinyl copy of Rio. Because, you know, I had to test it properly and all, and what better way to test it than with the first record I ever ( Read more... )

So I checked this nifty book out of the library called Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus, which is roughly about how our brains have been shaped by the messy process of evolution and the flaws that result from that ( Read more... )

. . . I was batting one of those "I should really do that sometime" projects around in my head and I dusted off the copy of iLife 04 that I had and the next thing I know I was downloading images from Wikipedia Commons, fiddling about with the Ken Burns Effect (that is actually what they call it!) and ultimately came up with this:

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. . . in the ( Read more... )

So, now that I no longer have a novel to work on, what have I been doing with my time ( Read more... )

I now have a full-length mirror nailed to my wall instead of propped up in the corner. This is a good thing ( Read more... )

I decided what I really needed to do was get all my schlumpfing out of the way at once, so I set aside the eight hours I would normally spend at work and confined myself to bed for those hours, emerging only to refill my water glass and make tea. Each time I was hit with a thought along the lines of "ZOMG! I have to take care of that!" I would ( Read more... )

By the way, forgot to mention, you won't be seeing nearly as much of me on the internets between now and my trip to London. That's because it's Lent, and I've decided to reduce my leisure surfing to one hour a day ( Read more... )

Today, I have decided, shall be devoted to the principle of:

ANTICRASTINATION!

So if I'm able do something right away, I'm going to make an effort to do it instead of shrugging it off until the grand and mythical Later.

We shall see how this experiment shakes out. I've got to go mix myself some breakfast now.

Today (so far) I took pleasure in ( Read more... )