Distractions

Morning earworm: Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith. There is a story involved ...



A dream during the night; I am sitting in with a band, testing out some new experimental piece of gear. They decide to play this. As I'm adjusting my sound, they take off into it, in the wrong key. Nothing new there, so I transpose and join in, waking up around the second verse. I wonder how many other earworms are dream hangovers like this? It isn't the first time here, either.

Didn't get much done that I had hoped to yesterday, largely by allowing myself to get sucked into an online game. I confess a bit of self-indulgence there; as part of the morning routine I usually go a few rounds on something like Minesweeper or Spider Solitaire as part of the waking up / engage the brain process before getting down to business. Occasionally I will wander over to MSN and hit the Game page, knowing that these tend to take a bit longer to get through. Yesterday I opted for a round of Jewel Quest, which typically goes 15-20 minutes, timing out after 40,000 points on average. Once, a few days back, I passed this and got stuck for over an hour, finally letting it time out at around 170,000. Sure enough, I got that one again. Normally, these free online versions stop at a certain level - apparently this one doesn't. Again, I let it go entirely too long and finally gave up, letting it time out after I hit 300,000 points and squandered nearly two hours. Not my most productive morning.

Time is limited today as well - the Wife is only working a half day, so anything I want to get done in the Bunker will necessarily occur within the next few hours. Not that I am complaining, mind you - the prospect of distraction here is far more interesting than any computer game ;-)

The attitude that life owes us something, if not everything, encourages life to thwart our endeavours.