I like today – how about you?

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be,
it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Today I’m energetic and effective and efficient.  It feels exceptional.  Yesterday I was disjointed, dodging and discouraged.  It felt dreadful.

But what really tickles me today is how much I like this sense of being present and accountable.  What happened overnight to effect this change?  Two things come to mind: technology and slipping back into, or at least close to, my comfort zone.

You see, the technology I’ve depended on has been secretly failing, losing one little capability at a time… it’s my laptop I’m speaking ill of… sure it’s 4 years old and that makes it an elderbody but I’ve been working with other technologies that, slow as they may be just keep on tickn’.  Be that as it may, this one has been gradually losing touch with the outside work.  First a plug stopped working then the network access went wonky and then the laptop went deaf and dumb and lost its sound.  Eventually the computer doc’ diagnosed that the motherboard was failing…

Workarounds Helped Some

In the meantime I’ve been cobbling together a modicum of workarounds – use the old, old, OLD tower downstairs to go on-line for webcrawling, emailing and facebooking.  Head back upstairs for developing and designing materials and information … all new stuff to be held on flash drives (to augment the last full backup the laptop was able to produce) … Sounds simple but I work in an iterative multitasking mode that bounces between me and the web and this up/down stairs process, while good for my figure, wasn’t good for my brain.

PattiAnn to the Rescue!

But now, hurrah!  PattiAnn has rescued me with a loaner laptop that works on all cylinders!  So today I’m no longer at sixes and sevens, I’m back in business and in my comfort zone.  The interesting thing about all this is that although I managed to get the core work done despite the chaotic process, all that the peripheral stuff?  The everyday maintenance stuff?  There wasn’t any energy, physical or psychic for getting those things done… until today when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, I started doing all the apcrae… not as projects but simply as if they were part of whatever I was doing… so the chicken soup has been homemade, cooled and packaged, the dishes are all done, the laundry finished, the front gate decorated for Halloween… and, at least for now, all’s right with the world.

Ahhhhhh, life is good.

I like today – and am looking forward to tomorrow – how about you?