Incessant Expressions

I’m nearing the end of my vacation but what a great time it’s been. My father spent a week with us and gorged himself on healthy, organic, and mostly vegetarian food. I built a spice box and a new desk for myself, I only have pictures of the desk since I think the spice box could use some work. The desk is a welcome for me since I do spend a large portion of my day sitting at the thing so I built a desk from a solid core oak finished door with 4″x4″ pine legs (it’s all I could get!). It must weigh 120lbs easily and I need to stain it in the next few months. Unfortunately, it’s not made of reclaimed wood but the spice box is! Good luck getting reclaimed and recycled wood from Home Depot, we were lucky enough to get anyone to help us. This weekend I’ll be putting up a peg board for my myriad of tools.

I’ve also sent off 7 PCs to be responsibly recycled which freed up a lot of room for me in the office. Now I only have my work PC, my play PC, and two spares along with the various laptops. Since this is my first real vacation in two years, I’ve spent almost the entire week doing something I thought impossible: detoxing myself from the Internet. It’s been surprisingly easy although a bit boring at times. I’ve fired up my laptop a few times to check my email and my bank account but nothing more than that. Well, I did check my work email account just to make sure that I didn’t have about a billion emails sitting, I’ve only had about 600 I’d say. I also have some work stuff to do tomorrow which stinks but hey, them’s the breaks. Tonight’s the first time I will have spent any amount of time jaunting around the Internet since last Friday. And it’s been a great experience. In all the time I’ve spent away, I managed to build my aforementioned desk and spice box, catch up on some TV shows and even catch up on a few weeks’ reading for school.

I really, really need to do this more often than every 2 years. Hopefully the “work stuff” I have to do tomorrow will yield me some more vacation time.

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