I upgraded to a “Standing Desk” today:
After learning in college about the downside of having a job where you sit on your butt all day long, I proceeded to do just that. So, today I created a hybrid standing desk by putting one of my spare desks on top of my main office desk.
It is pretty stable, so it should work, as long as I don’t get too frustrated and start pounding downwards with extra force.
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I was just walking on the trails out behind my house. A group of about fifteen kids and two adults walk by. I can tell that they’re in some sort of outdoor class. I think to myself that it’s nice to live in an area where people come to explore the outdoors.
Then, I hear one of the teachers say,
“Stop. Ok, I think this is a good place to look for snakes. This is snake territory.”
Crap.
Yesterday, I discovered the creative wit of Hugh MacLeod, cartoonist “on-the back of business cards,” alias Gaping Void. His work points fingers at many of the places we all dare not: corporate institutions, marketing, “artists.” It’s a refreshing echo that reminds you you’re not crazy. Stop by his blog and enjoy.
You can add the Gaping Void widget to your own website by visiting the widget page.
I’m usually a very motivated person. In fact, I still feel like a motivated person. But, I guess with the new baby and an enormous lack of sleep, I’ve been battling with my blankets for the last couple of weeks.
You may have experienced this before – it’s when you struggle to fall asleep at night for some reason or another. And, in the morning, when you’ve finally achieved a modicum of sleep, you struggle to get up and escape the warm embrace of the blankets. Yeah, I’m fighting that.
It’s getting a little better now that I’m forcing myself to go to bed earlier, but I still have a proclivity towards staying up late, and sleeping in.
Until I can offset my work hours, here’s three cheers to discipline, hurrah, hurrah, zzzzz!
