I’m typing this entry in Notepad2 because our office’s internet connection is down. This event has lead me to a sad realization. (Trint turn’s on Word Wrap. Grr.)

During my usual work day I have a lot of short delays. Getting latest from source control. Compiling my project. Copying large amounts of files to the live web server. These are just a few of my daily twiddle-thumb events. It’s during these brief bursts of inactivity that I do most of my web surfing. Consuming the web 90 seconds at a time.

But today, with the net inaccessable, I am going nuts. What is wrong with me? Have I become so dependant on a constant stream of input that I can’t sit for two minutes without some stimulation? Seriously. I’m not making this up. Within ten seconds of staring at the little hour-class icon, I start twitching like a crack baby. I think I need to go on a nice long camping trip. I need stimulus-detox.

Okay. My deployment is done now. Hopefully the web will be back up before I have to do another compile!