2012-09-09



I am using computers much too often and too long these  days.   I
want  to  reduce my amount of computer time but I don't reach the
situation I want. Well, the amount needs to be seen as percentage
of my free time. And I don't want to do just less but do more the
valuable things (and less of them) and stop wasting time.

The fetch-mails-once-a-day change improved the  situation.  There
have  been few days when I fetched manually further times. That's
okay.

In my attempt to reduce my computer interaction generally, I dis-
cover that this is difficult. There is personal desire to work on
the machine.  Then there are commitments I  have  made  over  the
years,  which  I  don't  want to drop simply. And most important,
it's truly hard to not read about this and that in the Wikipedia;
to  not  have a look at the digital map; to not check the time to
drive to this other city; to not search for  a  telephone  number
online; to take the time for letter correspondence and get others
to write letters as well; to pay for something which you can have
for  free  online; and much more. Even pbm (Postspiele) which in-
terest me a lot these days are mostly played with computers these
days.  Email  is  faster and cheaper than snail mail and everyone
uses computers anyways. All the volumenous documentation  is  on-
line  as well. Any attempt to move away from computers gets demo-
tivated very soon by reality. I would need to change my life fun-
damentally, but this I don't want to do.

In consequence, my status is: Still searching for improvement.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>