So when I had to take my video editing machine into Apple (YET AGAIN... 4th time since December for the SAME issue! Apple - you're really pushing my buttons lately!), and then two days later I happened to spill water on my new MacBook Air and it shut off not to turn on ever again. (I may have cried a little) *Ahem...* I found myself sans computing devices at home. At first I kind of panicked. I mean, I couldn't work on my book. I couldn't work on various side video projects... Nothin'.
And then the evenings at home began to pass quietly, pleasantly. I sat and read, went for hikes in the hills (yay for great weather!), played with my Nephew. These are, of course, things I normally do anyway, but I was so much less rushed. I was so much more relaxed. I realized that I would spend all day at work, working on computers, just to come home and turn on more computers and do more work. What kind of a life is that, really?
Look at what the last five months of not traveling have done to me! They've wreaked havoc on my adventuresome side. It's time to get out and go somewhere! (Luckily I'm flying away from here on Friday.)
Now I have one computer back home... and I didn't go to bed until midnight last night - for no reason at all. I stayed up playing around with the computer, dinking around with a video project and not really getting anywhere because I was so tired in the first place (long weekend!).
So I'm thinking that really I don't want those computers on so much. I think I'll ignore them on purpose when I get home. How about that? Of course, I will have to work on projects from time to time, but I think ignoring computers from 5pm-9pm would be quite in order, don't you?
PS, that water spill is going to cost me $800 to fix. Considering the laptop only cost $1300... ARGH!
Okay computers, did you get the memo????
Wait. You are writing a book? When did I miss that?
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