My, it's been a little while.
If you look carefully, you might notice little shiny metal buttons set in the walls of, say, shopping malls, stadiums, or--where I first noticed them--large dormitories. They're for security guards, who have a special little...doohickey with them. When they reach one of the little buttons, they touch the doohickey to it, and that tells the central computer that the guard hit that checkpoint--i.e., that he was (probably) actually pacing the floor.
Tonight/this coming morning, this blog is going to serve a somewhat similar function for me. My writer's block and procrastination have been acting up something fierce, and that combined with the happy news that a conference paper that I thought was due next week is actually due last week...fun times. I need to write something on the order of ten pages, real soon now, and I can't trick myself into taking a "power nap" or anything of the sort.
I have to make one more trip for supplies, and then I'll post something every top-of-the-hour. It'll be game-related. The big supply I need I have plenty of: Coffee. My three ibriks, two moka pots, one steam espresso maker (but no drip coffee maker) will set me fine, with my two coffee grinders and God only knows how many different kinds of coffee. The real trick will be figuring out how to do this without sugar. Those who know me from back in the day might remember that Bit-o-Honey and orange juice is my brain food of choice.
I'm on a low-carb diet, though, so those two are out. I'm thinking gum; that's supposed to keep you thinking straight. Ish. We can hope. Anything to keep me rolling until about noon, at least...
(I'll brook no criticism of low-carb diets, at least as a lose-weight-fast technique (which was the doctor's orders; I was a special case). I've lost forty pounds since the second week of January.)
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