Fragmentation

I'm finding that my days are becoming more fragmented. As I work from home, each task is repetitive and therefore should only be performed for small periods of time. (to avoid repetitive stress injuries) The drawback is two fold. The house is a mess because nothing has been finished and put away. And you have a feeling of having done nothing. Repetitive tasks can be rather mindless anyway. Yesterday, I vacuumed, did dishes, made cookies, and cleaned up my birds area. I pulled fleece and made a few batts. I typed in data (bookkeeping) but didn't finish. Papers everywhere. Birdseed still everywhere. Fleece everywhere. Cookies have disappeared. I shipped orders. At the end of the day, I couldn't tell you what I'd done. To top it off, the computer starts to suck you in. Vast periods of time can disappear this way. I lost a lot due to trying repeatedly to get the iPad to do something it apparently can't do, namely, copy a web address from one page into an ancient webmail account. (squirrel mail) I thought there was something wrong with me. It had a lot of heartburn with squirrel mail. I had to put away the keypad and retouch the letter so many times because the cursor just went away.

Today I am just starting to see some progress. I wound balls of yarn, printed labels, updated etsy, shrank photos, started assembling a new case of yarn to sell. I am only one fifth of the way there. Sigh. Sitting at the computer is gonna tighten all the shoulder muscles. The laptop causes you to goose neck to see what's going on. I'm switching to the tablet but I can't perform many of the functions necessary to create my etsy pages from the iPad. The function that makes the screen flip when you move the tablet screws up the custom item placement in etsy.

I love the screen resolution of my iPad. I love the touch screen, arrow keys, and portability of my Android. I love the speed of my laptop and full keyboard. Sigh. Can I have just one device with all three?

Wishing. Courtney said it best on Live Wire when talking about wasting time while waiting to discover your true passion. There's less time to pursue your passion because you've wasted it (watching back-to-back episodes of Archer). I think it might be worse my way. At least she could tell you what she did with her time. It shouldn't take me a day to remember what I did. It should be more memorable. Granted I'd rather be vacuuming than walking through bug infested swamps looking for orchids, but still.

The one thing I did do that was memorable was found an old friend on facebook that I haven't seen in years. That made yesterday worthwhile.