And now, on to better--or at least, other things...

Today, instead of being glued to the computer screen looking for jobs, I:

~defrosted the freezer
~biked in the crazy heat for the first time since Vancouver (it wasn't the smartest thing I've done, but I do feel re-comfortable that I can bike again)
~got fingerprinted for my new part-time tutoring job with the school district. Oh, and signed that I affirm the Constitution.
~drank 3+ glasses of White Grape Peach juice and got a headache.
~had a dinner meeting with a couple from church about planning an evangelistic session.
~researched Hyundai Sonatas and old Acura Integras/Legends online. Dilemma: borrow some money for a newer car, or pay cash for an old car that could be a good purchase?

Huh. I guess I didn't do as much as I thought. Oh, well. Tomorrow's another day.

Lessons learned from a laptop-less week

I am:
~97% more likely to go to bed by 10:30/11pm because I’m less distracted
~83% more likely to feel lonely/disconnected from the “real world”—compounded by switching temp jobs
~53% more likely to feel less administratively on top of things—easy to forget/put off life admin tasks, like contacting the disposal company to pick up furniture
~47% more likely to be motivated to either maximize my time for applying to jobs when I’m at the library OR Gchatting or checking FB (the pendulum swings)
~39% more likely to feel off-kilter because I haven’t listened to songs I only hear on the Web or on my iTunes (Sandra McCracken’s “Shelter” or Oliver Schroer’s “Field of Stars”)
~100% more likely to appreciate that, as boundless as the Web is for connecting to one more person or doing one more thing at the simple click of a button, at the end of the day, the people and the place you come home to is what shapes you most subtle-ly and profoundly. As Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh say in Beyond Homelessness, “The original and truly important worldwide web is biodiversity.”

I am writing this from my re-vivified laptop, thanks to a new adapter with a too-short cord. Thankful once again for the options it opens up, hoping to be more careful of how I use it.