I need to listen a bit more. Pay attention to feedback.

There's just been so much going on!, and you know how I get- Excited, anxious, ready.... But too soon. No patience. Come, now. Slow down. You're just getting started.

My body can hardly muster that sentence above this three-day running, mostly stuffy nose. Today my symptoms developed into that-kind-of-a-cough, and I haven't had an appetite in days. Today I rested in over six hours of television, and I am entirely responsible for grossly neglecting my body's needs over the past six days.

My computer can barely mimic the 256 colors that this screen now flickers forth. It has recently decided to axe its own BIOS on every 29 out of 30 start-up attempts. When it does boot, Windows is constantly asking me if Microsoft may include my Thinkpad in a focus group that can only be titled "x86 Driver Conflicts, Ruined IDE Sectors, and Faulty DRAM Leaks within the First 10 Seconds of System Initialization." Today I pressed the power button on my laptop seventy six times in a one hour period, and I am entirely responsible for neglecting my personal computer's needs over the past six months.

Is that the simple difference between monkey and machine? Neglect one for a period of days, yet the other can last much longer. After enough deprivation, it seems both still crash. Happening at the same time has hopefully taught me my lesson.   ¶ Permalink 10/26/2003 02:28:00 AM