11 Jul 2005 badger   » (Journeyer)

Movers
Waiting for the movers to arrive. Chisty and I have been packing since Friday. Mostly Christy as I get crazy when packing. Last night was okay, though. Maybe the 4AM hard-to-stay-focused bit overrode the stress-case-where-transitions-are-concerned. Wonder if I can take anything useful from that?

Anyhow, everything that's going is now packed. Just waiting for NorthAmerican Van Lines to show up. Hoping there's no screw up on the date and time. They scheduled us for this week. Last week when they had a definite date they called to let us know they'd be here on Monday in the morning. But for some reason they showed up at 8AM on Friday. A few phone calls later and we were told that Monday was very busy and they had been hoping they could load our stuff early. Since we'd been planing on using the weekend to pack, that didn't work out. They promised to still show up today as originally planned. We'll see.

My two year-old has been asking about (demanding to) watch TV all morning. Luckily he hasn't figured out how to plug the television in and out. Unluckily he's not willing to acknowledge the logicality of leaving the TV alone in preparation for the movers arrival.

Away from the Internet
We've found a place to stay in Granite Bay, CA. Called the local telephone company there. Phone and DSL should be hooked up on the 26th of the month. So, not accounting for Murphy, I should be lacking in Internet connectivity for ten days. I'm wondering how much email I'll have by then and how long it'll take me to dig out from under it. At least the hiatus will mean I can concentrate on some of the programming tasks I've set myself....

I do believe I'm an information addict. I habitually read all the email from the mailing lists I subscribe to. When looking for information on google, I click through a couple pages, opening new tabs with whatever looks half-way promising. Then I read those eight or so pages (and any threads if they're part of a mailing list.) Most damning of all, when I'm at a computer without Internet access, I often find myself fuzzily typing on keys unable to concentrate on the task at hand. This condition usually lasts for a few hours after which I give up on whatever work I was attempting to do and go find a newspaper to read.

Hopefully, ten days off will force me to resume creating content instead of consuming it.

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