Among the benefits of having a clear head in the evening is the freeing up of synapses that would otherwise be closed down. Engagement circuits, the ones governing (self)care, the bits that get irate, unhappy, the ones that get over-excited. It is also, longer term, the bits that cover amusement and enjoyment as well; all blissfully fuzzed over and turned down, ‘dark’ setting, less brightness.
With the absence of the dampener of alcohol, all of those come back on, which can be both boon and bane. I find myself spending hours trying to get the same kind of levelling off from reading… content, input, til I find the click.
Current status: a modest 10 tabs open, one of which is WordPress, where I’m typing this. I follow a lot of newsletters, all of which link to stuff I find interesting for different reasons.
- Book link from someone I follow on Twitter
- Article on Climate Pragmatists from Commune
- It’s Nice That
- New music on bandcamp , such as Ermine Tribe by T21CB
- Space age weaponry from Futurism.com
- Tweetdeck
- How MySpace deleted the internet – well, quite a few files, anyway.
- Reading up about Firefox Send for filesharing
- Scientists trying to work out how humans can regrow limbs like salamanders
So, keeping the head busy, but there’s always more content. Input…
Probably room to improve the filtration here too!
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