Lloyd's Lounge

Rands' recent article about his blog entry writing process started me thinking about my own recent lack of vigor in this area.

I firmly believe it's just my recent move and the need to feel settled in my new place. It's hard to get back into a groove when your entire life situation has changed but as I said in my last entry I'm starting to settle into life here in the Hutch.

I starting to feel antsy. (Can you believe dict.org cannot find a definition for antsy in any database?) I feel like I should be working or doing something writing or software related but I haven't been able to find enough juice to start up my engine and get it working going down some path. I have all of these projects I want to work on but I feel I'm languishing in a sense.

My brain in general terms feels like it's dragging its feet through molasses. I can't even come up with a good simile.

Writing this entry about my lack of motivation is a sneaky way of doing an end-run around the problem. Of course, now that I've done the entry I don't have other subterfuge to fall back on in the future when the fuzzy feeling from producing something wears off again.

Going back to the article, I like Rands' idea about proofreading a hard copy of a blog entry draft in a place separate from the writing locale. A change of location and media type invokes a change of perspective, however small, that may allow a different understanding of the topic or at least a fresh view for pure proofreading purposes.

First I have to get my printer shared on my Linux server; just one more thing on the motivation list.

Hey we DID find antsy at merriam webster online and dictionary.com

Which as my roomate just said "are the 2 largest internet dictionaries according to me"...

But He works for Raytheon, so don't hold it against us.

Oh yeah totally I found them there as well. I was just surprised that dict.org didn't have it and they use eleven different dictionaries (granted not all of them are pure english dictionaries).