I’ve been thinking of taking an internet vacation. Or at least from the sites I spend so much time on. I spend too much time on metafilter. I spent too much time on twitter, and twitter. I was thinking of taking an imposed break from metafilter, probably at least one of my twitter accounts, and putting my jackassletters site on hiatus. The only problem I have with this is these sites may become like macjams to me. I used to spend tons of time there. I haven’t been there in quite some time. I miss it, but I just can’t seem to set aside to get my audio hobby going again. It’s kind of like cable TV. I gave it up a while back, after a season of shows went by I found I didn’t even miss it.

There’s just so many other projects I would like to work on, and I use these sites to procrastinate. I also use twitter to promote my jackassletters site, so I don’t count that as a complete time suck, but if I am honest I have to admit I’m not even certain how much traffic I send my site’s way from there. But I figure, if I put jackassletters on hold I can take a “twittercation.” Same think on meta. Just step away, concentrate on other things.

I’m not talking “time management” here, but I do want to start looking at where my time does go.

I am working on a book project (and I feel funny calling it that), and I have other writing related projects that are languishing. I have several books I would like to get read. And other things that should be taking a higher priority than websurfing. Heck, even updating this site! The internet is a big place, and I reply on metafilter to show me where the good stuff is. I fear that by stepping away from meta for a month or two I will just replace my viewing habits with crappy sites. Who knows.

So I am not sure when/if I will do this. I have a furlough coming up where I work, so doubt I’d really have the will power to stay away then. In August my girlfriend starts University classes again, but that’s too far away to wait for. April is too soon. Ha! See, just doesn’t seem like a good idea. Maybe when I make next Monday’s jackass update I’ll walk away for a month. Less TV, less internet. That’s the goal. We’ll see.

I’ll write more about the whole book thing tomorrow. It’s kinda cool.