just another day

[jazzfish]

Blarg rant DST rant blarg. Sign the petition.

We've been keeping a change jar since we got here. It's a pretty big jar, and we've filled up maybe 5 cm (2") of it. Extrapolating out, it's going to take us over a decade to get it most of the way full. Since Canada abolished the penny awhile back there's going to be a clearly demarcated stratum at the bottom with copper intrusions, and then the rest of it will be pure silver coinage. (Loonies and toonies aren't "change," they're oddly-sized bills.)

March seems to be music month: Tylan (formerly of Girlyman) in Seattle next Sunday, a UK band called Veronica Falls the Friday after, and then back to Seattle for Antje Duvekot the next day. Busy busy.

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After having it open in a browser tab for a week or more, I finally played Depression Quest yesterday. It's a choose-your-own-adventure type of thing from the point-of-view of someone who's depressed. As you get more depressed, some of the choices are struck out & not available to you. Highly effective, slightly terrifying. [Via Zarf, I'm pretty sure.]

(Also, Boggle the Owl. DW feed at boggletheowl_feed.)

Via thanate, Procrastination is Not Laziness, which explains a great deal about where my procrastination habit comes from. O brain, you are not as helpful as you think you are. From the comments on either that article or a related one, I'm experimenting with the Pomodoro technique, which consists mostly of doing things for 25 minutes and then not for 5 minutes. Initial results are promising but that could be the standard "any change in process will result in temporary improvements" thing. Will see.

And after a dull grey morning the sun is threatening to come out.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Wow, Depression Quest was easy. I wish it was ACTUALLY that easy to deal with.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Also -- Pomodoro works pretty well. Well, my version isn't as efficient as what they suggest for normal people, but, on a good day, I can manage half an hour on, half an hour off, for six or even eight hours, for three to four productive hours in a day.

I suggest making sure you've got an actual wind-up mechanical timer that goes TICKTICKTICKTICKTICK rather than a digital sort of thing. It makes a difference.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Is there any way to turn off the music?