Back In The Bandwidth Again: Life Prioritization

After about 2 months without broadband, I got wired up again yesterday. It took 5 weeks through TSTT to get their broadband package. It wasn't particularly easy to do, and so in the interim I found other things to fill my time. Things like planting corn, dealing with land issues and... basically doing things that I needed little or no bandwidth to do.

Yesterday, when I got the modem and brought it home, I didn't connect it right away. Standing outside of myself, it surprised me that I was somewhat slow to connect the modem - a few years ago I would have immediately started surfing the net, downloading things and otherwise utilizing the bandwidth. But not this time. This time I read a few articles out of the Harvard Business Review, did some writing on a project I'm working on... only after a few hours did I bother. And when I did get online, what did I do?

Well, I fired up Second Life, or course, to find out that I needed to download an update. No surprise. I logged in and... stood around, said hello to a few people, and... logged out. It isn't that there isn't stuff going on in Second Life - I'm sure that there is - it had simply become a lower priority than getting back to some reading - offline.

So now I'm back online, getting my cyber-life in order and trying to do what used to be the opposite: fitting my life with the internet instead of vice versa. Granted, until recently my main income was off of the web (and it may soon be again), but now I'm not sure exactly what's going on with myself. It's as though the Internet isn't such a big deal anymore - perhaps it was my extended absence, perhaps it's because I've got other things in my life, or perhaps it's because my Life caught up with my plans.

Either way, I'm back. And I'm not sure exactly what that means - but what it does mean is some more regular writing on this site and others. And I'll let you in on a secret: I'm smiling more.