Following Edge

After working today, I start my two weeks of vacation. My goal , as I outlined earlier, is to rest up and temporarily recover my sensibilities and to invest some time lining up a new doctor to treat my condition for a longer-term solution.

Even so, I have been thinking in the last 2 days of all the things I need to get to around the house:

• Help plan a new chicken coop
• Install a wireless card in my stereo and put in hundred of CDs
• Put a pile of stuff on eBay
• Make some art for the smilingdisease experiment
• Put the hot tub together (a bit of work that may have its own reward)
• Assemble my "$1000 car", "gut-surgery girdle", and "Oregon credit union" web sites that I've been thinking about for years
• Order parts for fixing up the camper
• and more...

However, I realized that taking two weeks off of work just to stress out about personal projects would be a waste of my primary goals for taking time off. So, I am resigned to forget my list and take on only the personal projects that I really feel the energy and desire to work on, if any. David wants me to try and stay away from my computer and commit myself not to do any work during my break, but I expect I should take the same attitude toward work... only the work that I really feel the energy and desire to work on, if any. Obviously, the key is to keep my mind off both to-do lists and remember just to do what really inspires me. Happily, most of the things I set out to do both at home and at work are things that inspire me. That must be why I have almost 3 months of sick and vacation time accumulated.

Now, to my plan... no lists... only what I have energy for... and only what I desire to do.