disconnect

[lizziebelle]

love is a many-petaled thing, originally uploaded by Lizzie~Belle.

The awful muggies have gone away, and it was a lovely evening for a walk. I needed to get out and get the blood moving. It's been a long week (and it ain't over yet); my coworker is on vacation (again) so I am stuck in my cubicle, doing her work as well as mine. I had to do a legal ad today, and it was one I've never seen before (for visitation rights); I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I ended up calling the courthouse for help. The nice lady there straightened me out, and while I waited for the social services dude to call me back with the name and address, I typed in the ad. He called me just as I finished, but as I was putting in the info, the ad went *poof*. Most of it, just gone. I nearly cried. Those suckers are a pain in the patootie, with all sorts of formatting we have to do (bolding, centering some things, indents, the whole shebang). Argh! Thank you, Mercury retrograde. :P

There were some folks there from a local college to judge a national newspaper competition, and they had cookies in the conference room. When they went out back, I snuck in and took one. I really needed a cookie. *g*

At the end of a day, a former coworker with whom I share a birthday, but who I have ignored twice when she friended me on Facebook, came in. Thankfully, she didn't say anything about it. I don't really consider her a friend, and I'm trying to keep down the digital noise.

Speaking of which, I'm reading a really good book about managing the digital clutter. It's called Hamlet's Blackberry; I'll write a detailed review when I finish, because I think this is a book a lot of us could use. I'm trying to step away from the computer more often, and I know some of you are trying to manage screen time as well. It's a powerful draw, to be connected. Especially for someone like me, who lives alone.

Going off to read a book now. You know, the thing with pages instead of a screen. ;)