‘Tis the Season to be Procrastinating
Having a Computer Languages exam on Tuesday naturally means that I sit down with the full intention of revising for it, but not actually doing anything of real substance. I mean during the exam period my room is the cleanest, my file system on my computer is very well organised, all my music gets tagged properly etc. etc. I find every little thing a large distraction and having a permanent connection to the Internet doesn’t help at all. I usually start revising, then subconciously my mind gets completely distracted, next thing I know I’m spending an inordinate amount of time sorting out a suitable playlist to revise to or looking at something on the Internet that has nothing related to the subject I’m revising for, that accursed WEBoggle, it’s so addictive, if only I had found it after exams!
Well today my subconcious had exhausted the usual aforementioned methods of procrastinating and I found myself doing one of the most strangest things. It started when I found a bit of dirt on the side of one of my keys on my keyboard. The smallest distraction for a procrastinating mind proved to be fatal as the next thing I knew I had got my penknife out, was scraping inbetween all of the keys and getting an amazing amount of dust out. Given that my keyboard must be about 5 years old now, since then the computer itself has changed 3 times, there was a hell of a lot of dust in there. I even managed to find a small child within my keyboard who had lost their way down Bar Street and was living off the crumbs and morsels that fell between the keys if I ate near my computer. Bit of an exaggeration, but you get the picture. Anyway I challenge all you blogreaders maybe not to go so far as clean your keyboard with a penknife, but just to hold your keyboard upside down, give it a bit of a shake and see what comes out, you never know, you may be sitting on a goldmine of bronze age pottery or an undiscovered fossil. Well at least it’ll let you see the hardships of the poor keyboard!
Otherwise, procrastination has proved to get something else that isn’t pointless cleaning of keyboards, check out the sidebar on the right showing the top tracks that I’ve listened to the past week. Took a bit of fiddling as most of the default settings made it go way off the template on the right, but this’ll do until Geffy or someone writes me a script that displays my recently listened to tracks, instead of a chart of what my most played ones are a week ago.
In other Yoghurt news, Tesco are proving to be a regular blog reader on here, after me moaning about not providing ceramic plates, I already wrote that they now do, and now they stock chopsticks too! Thanks, Tesco. Thesco.