With the man up the ladder came the loss, for one day only, of the following useful services:
1. The internet
2. The television
3. The telephone (landline)
"But what did you DO all day?", I hear you cry, your tiny faces straining towards me like newly-born kittens reaching mistakenly for a hot water bottle. Here is the answer, adoring readers and/or fans: yes, using the power of the chart, I am able - using simple visual aids - to allow you easily to compare what I did all day today without an internet connection, to a typical day with an internet connection.
OK here goes. (Click on the image to make it bigger if your eyes are small like a tiny kitten's.)
I am not saying that doing the filing is of greater intrinsic value than for e.g. posting Dancey Paws to Facebook, or that having a little sit down and think is better for my mental health than looking at pictures of dogs and/or puppies*, but today I did things that were useful and I didn't, apparently, miss very much. Is that true, do you think? Or am I just living in a strange semi-non-working world, where covert operations take place on an iPhone under the stairs and I wait and wait for a work permit?
Pip "Hmmmm" Pip
NWM
* especially when the dogs look like this:
3 comments:
The problem with the internet is not that time spent without is without value, but that it is easy to spend far longer with it than you would in front of the telly because it feels like so many different things in one box. For e.g. you can talk to friends, watch TV, read improving literature, look at art, write about stuff, learn things, etc etc.
If I were an organised person no doubt I would say to myself "I shall switch the Internet off whilst I work", and "Tonight I shall spend one hour on the Internet looking at posts about Edward Hopper" and "I shall now spend 20 minutes just looking for a recipe incorporating parma ham". But I am not and so I lose acres of my day mindlessly clicking weird shit in Wikipedia and watching Gok Wan dressing yet another middle manager from Hartlepool.
is not that time spent without is without value
What the flip am I talking about there? I probably meant something like "is not that time spent on it is without value", but who knows?
My fatal words are "I'll just check for emails" and once the thing's on, there is no way of stopping me checking up on half the known world by lunchtime. I know perfectly well what I could be doing instead. Washing up, for a start. But would you wash up when you could be reading something inspiring like somebody else's bar charts?!!!! Am now forcing down the urge to go and create my very own, but feel so much better for seeing yours. xx
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