making time

 Sometimes habits develop that suck time. 

Little ones. But often related to that device glued to ourselves.

I have no problem talking on the phone for work, but I am not a fan of chatting on it. And so pretty much the lowest % of use the damn device gets is as a 'phone' even though that's its name.

Great Glen was good. I turned if off and didn't touch if for 28 hours or more. Yup.

Addiction eh? Yup. There's a couple games that i've been killing time playing for a while. Bumped up against the level limits, waiting every week for them to release new ones, time killer.

Not huge time but time occupied. It was meditative in a way, a routine, not all bad.

But.

It was also an addiction I wanted to break but some how logging in to keep the streak alive every day was important.

Took being up there w/o coverage (and w/o realizing there was wifi) to break that habit.

I've accidentally clicked on one of the apps out of habit but managed to exit before getting sucked back in.

Streak broken means I can start something else.

I haven't but i guess maybe I have by spending more time on IG and twitter. Phone is still in my hand. But also it is in my hand much less.

Battery is lasting all fucking day now instead of just half the day. But I'm also adding little bits of productivity in there instead of that.

Writing here more?

A little maybe.

I don't feel really much different but it is a good thing and there's a small level of gratitude for that break.

Next up, coffee.

ahahah yeah right... no seriously probably should work in a taper sometime.

Knee is feeling a little better, slowly, but i wore pants today and can't ice it at my desk sitting down when the inflammation is noticeable and getting aggravated. It's fine straightened but mostly painful when sitting down and it is bent at or more than 90°. 

Picked the singlespeed with fenders instead of the ebike with fenders. Had a good tailwind so was able to easily keep the RPMs up like i did with the black blue and gears the last few days. Maybe there'll be a tailwind for the way home too. 

I can hope right?

Kid needs a DLSR for class, school starts soon, I start looking, find something maybe not best but good, check with other kid see which one they have, they aren't using it - eventually find out camera is for spring semester, oh - well shit we'll just wait - was under the impression needed it now.

But also I really like the looks and the features in the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV, there's a Mark III in the refurb store that caught my eye, I mean the M5 on with the weatherproofing sounds even better but still. Yeah I'm an Oly fanboy and still would like to get the Leica Q2 mono but hey for now I'll just keep shooting with the phone that I don't use as a phone. 

Oh as far as open taps click through and actually read this one caught my eye today... https://cyclingindependent.com/an-open-letter-to-katie-compton-fans/

Also faceplace told me that today was the first ride on the new MTB, that is now the old MTB... funny how it didn't take long to turn me into a dirtback MTBr but hey bikes, who know MTBs were that much fun?

I should probably get out for a ride this weekend just so i don't forget how to ride it.

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