Constraints and Borders 050822

Landscape:
Unichi Hiratsuka

Ugh.  Sunday Morning and I am trying to break in a new schedule.  I suppose if I were one of those free spirits, I would be able to just go la-dee-da and be done with it, but if I do that I just turn into a slug and lie around.  So gotta buckle down and do it.  Whatever "it" is.

I am working on getting into the habit of watching what I eat.  I suppose that I can tie all this kinda stuff together and may even be better off for it.  The only way that I have ever lost weight seriously is the plain old vanilla, tried and true method of having a food log.  So I am back to the Lose-It app (last time I lost 80 pounds) and keeping an eye on what I eat.  I figure that just get two weeks of food logging in and then start adding in forced marches a couple of times a day and I will start working my way down to a non-obese state.

Screed

Part of moving into an enforced digital diet is the number of hours spent not staring at flashing lights on a screen mediated by someone somewhere scribbling things into their computer.  Since most of these folks seem to think that they can make a dime through some kind of Google/Amazon/Facebook serf-level paybacks for their labor, they are nearly an unending stream of whatever sells the best.

Now, I am not judging, but that kind of thing doesn't appeal to me.  I have a need for writing every day as much as I have a need for reading every day.  The reading can be easily taken up by e-books.  I almost want to buy a weekly magazine subscription, but the old days of a magazine dedicated to journalism and not narrative control have put this beyond my reach.  So I will rely on no more than ten (10) blogs that I find to be reasonable delivered by RSS.  That should cover current events.  I think that the hardest thing is to do is to stop thinking that you have to be up on the "latest" news.  I am thinking that waiting for a couple of days to read about what happened might allow for a more accurate approach.  The idea that you need to be absolutely current on the transpiring activity in the world is just plain stupid and impossible. 

The writing need is partially (majority?) taken up by this space.  But I am thinking that I have to get off my ass and finish at least one of the quarter-written novels that I have laying around.  So time has to be put aside and ruthlessly enforced to get this done.  I figure that if I spend two hours a day (2x1 hour blocks), I can get things moving along.  Since time is not an constraint anymore, I should be able to manage it.  I think that I will start tomorrow and maybe have a list that needs to get done.