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[pensnest]

I had a day without internet yesterday.

Mostly, by necessity. We had the electrician in to replace the ancient fuseboard with something a bit more acceptable, which meant the power was off for most of the day. I actually read a book*! That's two, recently, the other one being The Martian, so I'm doing well. Anyway, after we'd had supper I thought I would refrain from firing up my computer, in the vain hope that not watching the screen might help me to sleep. (Alas, insomnia struck again.)

And now I am weary. Perhaps I should seize the moment and try going to bed.


* The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman

Comments

[chalcopyrite]

No internet! ::clutches at you:: I'm so glad you're all right!

More srsly, in re screens and sleeping, have you met f.lux? It's a program that dims/yellows the light of your monitor as it gets later (you can set things like when you get up, and where you are so it knows when sunset is, and so forth) and means you're not doing the equivalent of staring into a 100W bulb before bedtime.

[ephemera]

I have f.lux on my main machine - I think it kind of helps (it also has a "cut it out" button for when you're doing graphics and need your screen to be consistantly the same colour tones)

Your choice of book for the day meets with my enthusiastic approval :)

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[pensnest]

I do rather enjoy the concept of kickass librarians scouring the multiverse for new books.

Okay, f.lux definitely needs to be looked into.

[pensnest]

It was weird! I read a *book*! But I survived.

I think I shall have to look into f.lux, I've heard of the concept before and it can't hurt, at any rate. Thanks for the suggestion.

[rikes]

*gasp* How did you survive????

[pensnest]

It's funny... once upon a time, in a world before computers, I read books *constantly*. However, it is quite nice to get back towards that habit.

[turps]

Getting our ancient fuse box changed is on a list of jobs we need doing one day. Due to cost I suspect it'll be a while.