Dinosaur in the backyard
Highlights: Courthouse coffee w/Mark and Jen. Jikoji works onsite. Pick up Adirondack chairs. Jon & Cheryl visit to prep for the party.
Insights: Another day adapting to adopting a new process. A change to managing my daily focus, (somewhat) removed from technology. It's ain't easy. Old habits die hard, and a phone in hand feels like an unlit cigarette in the hand of a firmer smoker or a recovering alcoholic stocking shelves at a liquor store. But I am working daily, if not hourly, to relinquish the hold that gripping a smartphone has on me. I still have it, still use it, and can't imagine not having it for the core necessities of life: connecting with family and friends, taking photos of anything worth keeping for a lifetime or deleting it the minute after its usefulness has expired, and of course having a way to be notified when your table is ready. However, my degree of focus and the number of things I am getting done both seem to have increased as has the lack of accomplishing a wide range of what I now recognize as distractions. Shiny objects. Squirrels. It feels good to consciously close the laptop once the specific need for its use has been achieved. Of course, doing so means resisting the impulse to automate a 30-second task by authoring a shortcut for 90 minutes, and letting go of my desire to know whatever became of the bass player from Flock of Seagulls (rumor is that he ran, he ran so far away, but could not get away)