Week Two

As week one featured an observation of how post-work life was similar to working life, this week’s post is a catalogue of differences. Not all of these differences are huge.

No watch

I own five watches (three wrist, two pocket) but have only worn one once in the last two weeks. Most of the time, I don’t need to know what the time is and don’t need to mark its passing.

No beard

When you get up at 5:30 every morning for the commuter train, putting time into your appearance takes a back seat to getting out of the door quickly. I now shave every day; not particularly important except that it indicates I have time to do so.

No computer

Or at least no sitting at a computer. I’m writing this on a laptop which I’ve just been using to write up the dissertation, but when I’m not doing that, or editing music scores in MuseScore, I’m not “at” a computer. Tempus Fugit was written on my phone: the best computer is the one you have on you.

No tech news

My morning ritual used to involve a lot of RSS tech news feeds, as well as browsing some aggregation sites like lobste.rs to find articles to read. Now that’s all been pared back, apart from a few people who write well. I usually have two or three unread articles every day now, which are more often than not web comics.

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