This is it, friends. My "week unplugged". yesterday I decided that my life had too much in it, and it was time to get my time back, so I opted with the hardest thing for my techie life. Unplug myself from the internet. electronic devices were ok, such as for music, and note taking, but anything outside my local home network is strictly prohibited. Here is how day 1 went:
Friday 09:45pm - made the decision to go unplugged
10:00pm - started meditating, trying to clear my head. what felt like 10 minutes later....
12:27am - realize I had been meditating for 2:27 hours. O_O dang.
12:30am - do 20 mins worth of pushups right before hopping in bed by 12:50
Saturday
01:28am - (rough time estimates from now on) tasker checks for my gps location, and given I was home, turns on my wifi and connects to the home router, letting 20+ notifications through, waking me up.
01:47am - tasker disconnected, as well as anything else that would be automated.
08:00am - sun starts rising, I've been drifting in and out of consciousness for 8 hours.
11:58am - (exact time here) wake up, full alert, reach for the phone, set it back down.
12:40pm - take a shower listening to some glitch mob I have in my computer upstairs (listening though the home network to my phone, plugged into my bathroom speakers)
01:45pm - realization that I don't have my mind palace developed enough to remember a week's worth of occurrences, and that I need to start writing things down.
02:25pm - finally caught up to the daily happenings, wanting to make cookies, since its a saturday. Of course, I dont know any recipes from the top of my head, and can't look online, so off I go trying to scour the house for recipe books that my mom didnt take with her when she moved out.
02:38pm - found a "Cooking for 2" magazine, with four pages of sweet-tooth recipes from cream-filled chocolate rolls to tiger butter candy (whatever that is).
From then on, my day became a blur as I went with 2 friends for some parkour fun at the nearest playground, followed by a trip to Golden Corral buffet, and then a movie (walking with dinosaurs, and sneaked into 47 Ronin afterwards). the day is over, it being 6 minutes past midnight, and I have a massive headache, but managed to remain unplugged. Time to see what tomorrow brings.
PS: I did go online to publish this article on the blog, but did not check notifications on phone or email.
