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I’m finally back to blogging! It kind of feels the same, but now… more married-ish I guess. Since getting married on January 17th, I have been without an internet connection on my main computer. After arriving back from our wonderful honeymoon in San Francisco, I called to have my existing phone/dsl account moved to our new address. Two days after making that call, a massive ice storm covered everything in rock solid 2 inch ice and things were delayed. As of today my dsl still has not been set up at this address. There have been miscommunications galore between said dsl provider and the maintenance guy for our building about what kind of connections they need set up and new wires have had to be hung etc etc. Basically its a big sloppy mess and I’ve gone back and forth between apartment-pacing anger to nice moments of enjoying simply drawing or reading a book with almost no distraction. These nice parts are what I’d like to talk about.

As a freelancer I set my own time, and before this lack-of-internet, I had gotten into the lazy habit of spending the first hour+ or so of my day farting around on websites and reading RSS feeds and my Twitter to “get my brain warmed up.” Then throughout the day I would constantly check in on these trivial things, because, well… I dont even know really. It was just something to do I guess. Now after being forcefully removed from that cozy situation and put in a position where I might have 2 chances to check email a day on my wife’s laptop down at the cafe she manages, these wasted hours of unnecessary internet “stuff” are put under a much-needed spotlight.

This morning, much to my surprise, my Mac Pro found a wifi network just within reach that is not password-protected. It barely works, but its enough for me to write this post plus a few other things. Now I am going to go through all of the internet-cruft I haven’t missed in the least and just cancel my account or delete the RSS feed or what have you. My mind feels so much clearer and I’ve gotten so much work done during this net downtime that the benefits far outweigh the novelty of stuff like Twitter and checking 100+ RSS feeds.

I guess you could argue its more my lack of self-control than the services and sites themselves that are the problem, and I can agree with that. That may be why I feel like I need to delete some things though, because I know once I have fast internet again I will go right back into endlessly checking and reading trivial thing after trivial thing.

All things in moderation… And occasionally you really need to just delete a bunch of shit you don’t need.