I'm more than a bit annoyed right now. For some reason my internet connection is seriously lagging behind. But as Merlin Mann would so, this is very much a "first-world problem". Which I fully understand. So I'm trying desperately to maintain a sane perspective on the situation. :P But I can't. ;) I just hate it when things aren't operating as they should. This might be understandable if I were on DSL, but I'm not. We have a cable internet connection here. This shouldn't be happening! Help me!!! :P :(
I'm frustrated, annoyed and definitely not in the mood to be blogging right now. If you're diving the Net smoothly right now, consider yourself lucky. Don't take your fortune for granted. Look upon my pitiable situation and count your blessings. :P Give thanks to the Digital Gods and live a happy life. ;) :P
I was you once. You will be me.
DS333, stalled.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Point Of No Return
I really need to make an effort to start reading more analog media. I used to, but I've fallen out of the habit. For a long time my reading material could easily be broken up into two categories: magazines & books. Nothing revolutionary. As far as magazines went, my focus was singular. I only subscribed to GQ. When it came to books my interests were wide and varied. But once I latched onto a book, I made sure to stay within a particular theme. I'd usually stick with an author or series.
So this is the way things went. I would receive a new GQ in the mail and read it cover to cover. I'd say, on average, that would take about a week or two. Once I had that GQ in my grasp, that's the only thing I would read until it was finished. Once it was finished, I had the rest of the month to read whatever else I wanted to. That usually meant the current book I was reading. But once a new GQ came in the mail, I'd put the book on the back burner until I was finished with the magazine and then I would continue on with the book. If I finished, I always made sure to have another book on hand and the cycle would continue.
I loved this system, if only because it was a system. Plus, as systems went this was elegant and simple. If anything it was better than an ordered chaos. Which is where I am now. Ever since I started this project, things have gone all topsy-turvy. Well maybe that's not true. Things became undone a long time ago. I just stopped reading my GQ magazines and they kept piling up and up. Things are out of control and I'm sooo far behind. And being the guy that I am, I can't let go. I must do what I set out to do. Or rather, if I want to continue reading this magazine (which I really do) I must read everything in order. At the moment, though, that's a very tall order. I'm at least a full year behind on the issues. I really need to make a decision right now. Actually I've already made the decision, I just need to execute. If I don't follow through, I'll be so far behind I'll have no way of catching up.
I'm gonna start small and see if I can just sit down for an hour each day and see if I can't chip away at this massive wall of paper. If things are progressing nicely I might bump it up a notch. I'm not exactly sure what reading one hour a day amounts to when it comes to getting through one of these issues, but I hope it's enough. My hope is that I can at least take care of 1.5 issues worth of reading a month. In my wildest dreams, two issues per month. I just need enough to catch up.
As I've said... all of this is a must. Because of the system I've laid out in my head, I haven't been able to read anything. Nothing analog anyway. I haven't read a book in over a year. Which is very sad. Especially when I think of how well I was working my way through The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. I need to get back to that. And getting back there means getting through these magazines. I need to. And I can't turn back.
DS333, planning.
So this is the way things went. I would receive a new GQ in the mail and read it cover to cover. I'd say, on average, that would take about a week or two. Once I had that GQ in my grasp, that's the only thing I would read until it was finished. Once it was finished, I had the rest of the month to read whatever else I wanted to. That usually meant the current book I was reading. But once a new GQ came in the mail, I'd put the book on the back burner until I was finished with the magazine and then I would continue on with the book. If I finished, I always made sure to have another book on hand and the cycle would continue.
I loved this system, if only because it was a system. Plus, as systems went this was elegant and simple. If anything it was better than an ordered chaos. Which is where I am now. Ever since I started this project, things have gone all topsy-turvy. Well maybe that's not true. Things became undone a long time ago. I just stopped reading my GQ magazines and they kept piling up and up. Things are out of control and I'm sooo far behind. And being the guy that I am, I can't let go. I must do what I set out to do. Or rather, if I want to continue reading this magazine (which I really do) I must read everything in order. At the moment, though, that's a very tall order. I'm at least a full year behind on the issues. I really need to make a decision right now. Actually I've already made the decision, I just need to execute. If I don't follow through, I'll be so far behind I'll have no way of catching up.
I'm gonna start small and see if I can just sit down for an hour each day and see if I can't chip away at this massive wall of paper. If things are progressing nicely I might bump it up a notch. I'm not exactly sure what reading one hour a day amounts to when it comes to getting through one of these issues, but I hope it's enough. My hope is that I can at least take care of 1.5 issues worth of reading a month. In my wildest dreams, two issues per month. I just need enough to catch up.
As I've said... all of this is a must. Because of the system I've laid out in my head, I haven't been able to read anything. Nothing analog anyway. I haven't read a book in over a year. Which is very sad. Especially when I think of how well I was working my way through The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. I need to get back to that. And getting back there means getting through these magazines. I need to. And I can't turn back.
DS333, planning.
001.159.365
- I completely beat Super Mario Galaxy tonight! :D It entailed beating the game as Mario with 120 Power Stars which unlocked Luigi. Then beating the game again as Luigi with 120 Power Stars which unlocked The Grand Finale Galaxy. Then scored the final star with Mario & Luigi, the 121st. :D
- Enjoying a pathetic sense of accomplishment tonight. :P :D
- I think I might have to unsubscribe to Lifehacker in Google Reader. :|
- I'm loving Quicksilver all the more these days. Due in large part to fiddling around with the triggers. :D
- I want to learn AppleScript.
- I really hate the WGA strike. Which really means I hate corporate America. Those greedy bastards. Avarice will undo this world.
- Biggest sign that I'm an addicted webhead? My brother called me after he was worried about not seeing me post on Twitter for a day. :P
- Not so cold tonight.
- Soon enough the Christmas decorations will go up. *sigh* I fear stepladders coupled with uneven ground. :P
- I hate those dreams that are so intense they make you feel like you haven't slept. Had one of them last night. The highlight (or lowlight, rather) involved me running for my life as I was trying to escape the grasp of lustful, gangbanging truckers. *shivers*
- It's getting harder and harder to torrent these days it seems.
- I wish I could run Leopard. :|
- Time to go to sleep. Or at least wind down for the night. :P
DS333, signing off.
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