The coffee shop ended up being a terrible idea. I managed to get a couple of pages typed in before a crowd of patrons raised the noise level to un-ignorable heights. In the end, I packed up my bag, drove home and treated the dog to an early walk since weather reports hinted at rain later in the day. (It didn’t. Just endlessly hot and breezeless. Still not great dog-walking weather.) Then groceries, stocking up mostly on healthy goods for a change, then picking up Mr. Boyd, and then … well, not much. The heat sapped my focus, and I ended up frittering the afternoon away on computer-related fiddling. All email is now handled in Thunderbird, I’ve figured out how to set up the tethering on the iPhone (but I have to wait until we know just exactly what my new contract is supposed to cover), handed off my old and potentially fire-starting iPhone charger adapter to the UPS man, and I read a little, once I’d given up on being productive.
Tomorrow will be different. Soon as I rise, it’s pot of tea, the computer and all my notes.
Everything gets entered.
And if everything gets entered, I get to have McDonalds for dinner.
(I know, doesn’t sound like encouragement, but it is for me even if it’s in a bad, fatty-fat sort of way.)
This may not be doable. I’ve been working on the build for weeks, I have 30-odd pages of notes. But I am going to try. I will also be turning off the wireless, using my iPhone’s Ambiance app to provide some background noise that I won’t start singing or listening intently to, and I will use an egg timer, just to create the rush of a deadline combined with the release of frequent fidget breaks.
Yes, it’s a bit of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks but it’s more of a plan than I normally have, okay?
So, that’s it. All of this preparatory work needs to be done so I can start Thursday fresh and I want to go to Friday’s Hypergraphic Meeting with something substantial accomplished.
Posted by mwgriffith on June 23, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I attempted venturing into a coffee shop once in hopes of finding a relaxing atmosphere to complement my creative endeavors. It was incredibly loud indeed! I felt like I was in high school all over again. With much haste, I slurped down my mocha, grabbed my laptop, and returned to the comfortable solitude of my bedroom/office.
Posted by scribofelidae on June 24, 2009 at 7:46 am
Hee! Sounds like exactly my day yesterday. I learned my lesson: early summer is not the time to get things done out of the house.
It’s no great loss – the tea I have at home is better anyways.
Posted by mwgriffith on June 25, 2009 at 9:49 pm
You know, the coffee I have at home is great! It’s chocolate…I don’t know why I’m telling you this! LoL
Posted by scribofelidae on June 26, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hey, it’s the internet! We’re supposed to talk about this stuff.
I used to hate coffee. HATE. IT. My family drank it, my boyfriend lived off of Timmy’s coffee. Finally I bugged and bugged him to get a coffee maker with a proper grinder for whole beans to try and when he did I got hooked on the stuff. :}
So now we make a run every couple of months to a whole bean store in Barrie and we start the day with a freshly ground and flavored brew. Hmmm … German Chocolate Cake, oh, and the Cinnamon Pastry. Yumyumyum.
I am an avowed tea drinker. This coffee thing was a surprise to everyone, especially me!