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TGDD: Day 1

[Follow me through a week devoid of all things digital. This is a (mostly) edited version of my thoughts and insights from a week without digital noise]

It's a tie for the thing I miss the most. Pandora or Wikipedia.

I changed the rules a tad, I'm allowing myself anything that was available 100 years ago. So the radio is allowed again. They had those in 1910.

At work I usually spend 3-4 hours reading my RSS feeds. No having that to fill the day is quite challenging. I've been writing everything I would normally tweet or share on Facebook on my little notepad. It's an interesting experience. Most things don't actually make the cut to get tweeted, but it all gets written this week.

Here are some choice excerpts from the day:

9.42AM - There are definitely some places that 'noise' isn't a bad thing. That is to say -- I miss Pandora today.

11.23AM - I feel so disconnected today. I mean, that is the point, but...you know. It's weird.

12.18PM -  There's a lot to worry about. If I didn't have Jesus, I'd be even more stressed than I am now.

3.24PM - So bored.

5.14PM - This feels like a renaissance for my brain.

6.05PM - If I worked for a fireworks company, I'd start a line of fireworks called 'Baby Boomers.' [after the generation...not fireworks designed to be used on/around babies.]

6.52PM - If I twittered/facebooked this much, no one would be my friend.

And that's not even the half of it. I wrote 23 pages on the first day. Eek.

Overall, I think today has been hard, but not impossible. I've already seen some things I would have missed if I hadn't been paying attention like I was. I like this. I'm encouraged and excited to see what's next.