relaxation?

After a long and tedious day at work, I got home and expected - and wanted - just to relax for the evening. Instead, that started off as the oh-so-typical web-based procrastination, and then switched to me writing a 2000-word post for my game development blog. It's funny to think that I remember students struggling to reach 2000 words for their essays, but I was struggling to get the post below 2000 words, which is too many as it is. 1000 words per hour is a decent rate to be writing at, at least. It totally depends on whether I know enough about the subject matter, but my mind picks up so many assorted connections these days that it seems easy to get that far. So it bodes reasonably well for any future writing I might try to do.

I'm sure there's also something witty or insightful to be said about the fact that I'm writing a blog post about writing a blog post. (And of this sentence, writing about writing a blog post about writing a blog post. Ad infinitum...)

However it all reminds me that relaxation is not particularly easy when in front of the computer. Although I have more games than I can ever hope to complete, I often end up feeling the need to do something useful, or at least attempt it. As much as I rely on my PC and the internet at home and at work, some of the best times I've had were when I was away from computers and the web and email for several days, such as at Wacken last year or Matlock Bath the summer before. I thought I'd feel the need to get online and check journals and emails and the like... but no. Having a short but enforced isolation from technology is definitely liberating in its own way.