{"id":4004,"date":"2006-12-16T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:36:19","slug":"my-mind-is-broken-no-no-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"My mind is broken.  No, no, that&#8217;s a -good- thing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself feeling like my iBook is my connection to reality, and that&#8217;s dangerous.  I&#8217;m using iCal in my continuing quest to try and actually do what I say I&#8217;m going to do.  I&#8217;m using it as a supplement to my memory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using it to stay in touch with people, because I&#8217;m a hermit, and have no time, when I do really have time, I just choose to use it to try and write, and end up reading <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> or <u>The Cryptonomicon<\/u> or obsessively refreshing my friends&#8217; page, which I use to stay in touch with people, because I&#8217;m a hermit, and have no time&#8230;. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>eBay must be an addiction, even if I&#8217;m a low volume seller and buyer.  I&#8217;m doing good things, right?  I mean, by selling the things that collect dust, and the things that we don&#8217;t need, and buy things that are useful to us, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullspectrumsolutions.com\/portable_task_lamp_52_prd1.htm\">full spectrum desk lamps<\/a> for work and <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ih=017&amp;sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&amp;viewitem=&amp;item=270067714702&amp;rd=1&amp;rd=1\">upgrades to the iBook<\/a> so it runs faster and does things better and can help me manage my life more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>Right?  Good things?<\/p>\n<p>It helps with holiday shopping and it helps with getting me good music and it helps with letting me vent and get my emotions out in a forum in which my friends and family can keep up with me because I&#8217;m a hermit, and have no time, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been feeling better, I&#8217;ve made some decisions.  Once again, I&#8217;m trying to influence the things that I can, and let the things that I can&#8217;t do what they&#8217;re going to do.  I&#8217;m reviewing the person that I want to be, and the person that I am, and what changes must be made to bring that about.  I have a deadline for <u>The Glass Crown<\/u>, and a projected release date, and I&#8217;m pretty scared about it.  Not about not hitting it, not about hitting it, just freaked out about it in a general sense.<\/p>\n<p>The last two nights at Meijer&#8217;s, I&#8217;ve been having Adam moments.  I guess only a few of you know what that means, because it&#8217;s still mostly stuck in my head and not on paper.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bar rush here at Theio&#8217;s.  People are loud.  I&#8217;ve got my iBook&#8217;s volume on max to my headphones.  iTunes is also maxed.  People are loud and drunk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying out this whole tucking my shirt in business.  <lj user=\"radi0raheem\"> says that if I&#8217;m going to rock the belt buckle that <lj user=\"plasmonicgrid\"> gave me, I should definitely tuck in my shirt.  No stealth belt buckle.  But, really, it&#8217;s because <lj user=\"benniferus\"> says she likes the way I look when my shirt is tucked in.<\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a hard time pushing the laptop away.  I&#8217;m having a hard time pulling out the purple notebook and writing straight-up fantasy.  Maybe I need to let all of these Adam thoughts out of my head, because there really are quite a lot of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself feeling like my iBook is my connection to reality, and that&#8217;s dangerous. I&#8217;m using iCal in my continuing quest to try and actually do what I say I&#8217;m going to do. 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