linaewen | Friday in Linville

There's not much to report here in Linville, except that it's cold and snowy, and the sun is out today. I had a productive no-computer Wednesday, where my main accomplishment was organizing my tupperware cupboard and the pantry, and actually sitting down and reading a novel for a change. It was a pleasant day! Yesterday was not as productive, I'm not sure why -- I think I was just tired (from having my sleep disturbed by a coughing DH), cold, and out of sorts, and it didn't make for a good day of doing anything. So I just loafed and finished my novel, and unpacked one box of books.

Today I have plans for some errands (a search for warmer socks is in order if we are going to keep the thermostat set low like this) and I have some reports to prepare. More boxes could be unpacked, as well -- I'm thinking it would be a good goal for the day to fill the empty bookshelves around the place, now that they are set up and dusted.

It's already midmorning, so I guess I shall get started on that!

ETA: I was commenting in a friend's blog and came up with this thought, when talking about being on the computer less:

Time away from the computer at the right time is a good goal, that can make a difference to many projects that might suffer otherwise. One of the things I have to figure out, though, is how to do the real work that I have to do which requires the computer without being distracted by the other things that are there at the click of a mouse button. I might have to get everything on the laptop harddrive and then remove the network card, so I stay offline for the duration of that work time! That would help a lot, I'm sure.

I'm thinking I might have to try that today, with the reports I have to prepare. Maybe I'll have to add a "computer on but offline" day to my schedule, in addition to my "no computer" day. :-D

I had an open box as my usericon, but I have changed it to this one by

juno_icons, which I call "Tree Firmly Planted" -- it reminds me of this verse from the Psalms, which is what my real goal in life is, to be firmly planted in doing what is right, and therefore prosperous:

       He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
       which yields its fruit in season
       and whose leaf does not wither.
       Whatever he does prospers. (Psalm 1:3)