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I'm spending the evening working cleaning the basement. Thank the god/dess for Neil Young, wireless networking, and a borrowed laptop. I'm making some good progress too, despite the distractions offered by all three of those things.
I have finally installed Trillian on my laptop again. I feel like I miss out on upwards of eighty percent of my opportunities to communicate with people and get to know them better because I tend to avoid using chat. To be honest, I feel a bit pressured when I have an instant messager client up. Mentally, seeing someone marked as online and available becomes equated to standing in a room with them. I feel like I'm committing some kind of social slight by not actively interacting them. Too, I often feel like when I have my messager up, I don't get nearly as much done. It's difficult to concentrate on writing and composing thoughts when I have pop-up windows interrupting me all the time. It can derail my train of thought. Halfway between instant spoken communication and leisurely composition, it's sort of the worst of both worlds. Actually, a very eloquently worded explanation that largely matches my own thoughts on the subject can be found here.
That said, not being on IM has left me feeling too left out for too long, so I've jumped on the wagon again. My handles are:
*blinks* You know, I just typed that entire entry while standing, hunched over my laptop, in the middle of my basement, solely by the light of a couple of compact fluorescents while boxes and baskets of the feaste gear that I'm sorting out sit in stacks behind me. I don't recall seeing a question that would cover this situation on either the geek or the rennie versions of the purity test, but it seems like this should earn me some kind of points....
I have finally installed Trillian on my laptop again. I feel like I miss out on upwards of eighty percent of my opportunities to communicate with people and get to know them better because I tend to avoid using chat. To be honest, I feel a bit pressured when I have an instant messager client up. Mentally, seeing someone marked as online and available becomes equated to standing in a room with them. I feel like I'm committing some kind of social slight by not actively interacting them. Too, I often feel like when I have my messager up, I don't get nearly as much done. It's difficult to concentrate on writing and composing thoughts when I have pop-up windows interrupting me all the time. It can derail my train of thought. Halfway between instant spoken communication and leisurely composition, it's sort of the worst of both worlds. Actually, a very eloquently worded explanation that largely matches my own thoughts on the subject can be found here.
That said, not being on IM has left me feeling too left out for too long, so I've jumped on the wagon again. My handles are:
- ICQ: 29494267
- Yahoo: mutt_of_storms
- AIM: The_quiet_doggy (I think: I haven't managed to remember a password yet so I can't confirm that that account works
*blinks* You know, I just typed that entire entry while standing, hunched over my laptop, in the middle of my basement, solely by the light of a couple of compact fluorescents while boxes and baskets of the feaste gear that I'm sorting out sit in stacks behind me. I don't recall seeing a question that would cover this situation on either the geek or the rennie versions of the purity test, but it seems like this should earn me some kind of points....