day 45...opting out of the internet (for a day) with suprising results.

 day 45... "today opt out of the internet" Like many people i go onto the internet with a few things i absoloutley need to do, then end up getting side tracked into watching and doing all  kinds of pointless and cack  on here..  So when i saw today's task i was interested as to what i could make time for if i dint allow the internet toswallow me up for a while.
To my infinate suprise I got so much more  done in my leisure time, that i  was almost convinced to sack the computer off for good, or at least a good while... and had i not pledged to to task all year i might have, However theyre are at least 300 days tilll thats possible.

The activities ignoring the internet allowed me time to do participate in for longer periods  are as follows:-

I got through more than a couple of chapters of both of my christmas books, cameron on cameron ( pictured above) and in cold blood (capote's classic.).. i finally got round to buying it...and i am not disapointed.

Found a lot more time to exercise than the usual pityfull half hour or so, i got the gloves on , kept in mind things that bother me (people who read in coffee shops, use laptops on the train, boro becoming a mid table championship team, and other things i wont mention here) and wellied away for a good long while, i even nutted it a couple of times.. that didnt feel great, but it always seems the most apropriate way to end a barage of punches.

Went for a long walk in a (ice laiden and deadly) winter wonderland... i did this in running spikes , After days of undignified near falls, I realised said spikes would keep me vertical..i had  a sort of isaac newton moment while watching my cat walk alongside me ,seemingly unhindered by the treacherous ice, while i slipped around like a dog on a wet kitchen floor, this i thought must be down to his claws. I knew those runnning shoes would come in handy someday (thanks amy)

I documented the snowmen in billingham on said walk.. (some of which were hillarious) so hillarious in fact that i considered  self publishing snowmen of billingham vol 1.. then thought better of it.

I watched a documentary on the  inca's (which i loved) as im a little obsessed with ancient central american civilizations.

So i discovered even over the nothing much to do christmas period, minus internet access i can  actually be a relatively productive person within my leisure time. That certainly came as a suprise to me. I may well do it more often.. the only downside to this is i couldnt type up yesterdays task yesterday.. so ur getting it today and im now behind in typing up  tho not tasking. fear not.

internet abandoned for the day
task done.