Changes

There needs to be a change, and it's taken me far too long to realize it, and I've wasted even more time doing nothing about it.

I'm going to implement some new policies, if you will. I'm still considering what I will drop, but on the list is some form of "Less computer time". I have a penchant for reading news articles for hours and hours and hours, and while that's not a bad thing, it takes up far too much of my time. I'm out of sync with whatever is going on around me, and missing out on things I shouldn't be missing out on. There is a stack of very lonely books on my shelf.

Also, I want to write more. I always forget how much I truly enjoy it. And drawing. Damn, I love to draw. (I *love* writing and drawing and reading, I *like* reading news articles... get where I'm going with this?)

More on the way once I get a solid plan figured out.

>>Linus

I just recently read an article titled, "Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know" (you can find it here: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents). On the author's list were things like catalogs, travel agents and fax machines, but there were also books, single-picture frames and wires. I don't know about you, but I've never had to worry about my Internet reliability while my laptop was plugged into a jack. And what about power cords, and electricity in your house? Wires may eventually become obsolete, but I wouldn't count on them vanishing in the next few years.

But the thing that really got my blood pumping was when books were included on the list. A baby born in 2011 will never know a book? Honestly? I've said it once and I'll say it again: printed books will never completely die out. There's nothing that can replace the feel of hundreds of pages full of words in your hand, or the smell of a book. Don't get me wrong, Kindles are awesome. They're convenient and portable and lightweight, but bottom line they are not a book. It's frustrating not knowing how far you into a book you are, and the percentage marker only adds to it. I'm 17% finished with this? What does that even mean?

And call me old-fashioned, but I rather enjoy using a *gasp* paper map.

>>Linus