Brain on Vacation

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 4:23 AM

My brain is presently on vacation.

Today, I visited the local CompUSA, which is about a 30 minute drive away, to pick up some networking equipment for the Great Big Office Move™ at Church. In the process of moving, I'm installing a new wi-fi access point (an Airport Extreme), an extra switch (Linksys 5-Port), a WDS range extender (Airport Express) and, after all of this, I am suppose to get all eight computers back on the network. Did I mention all of this is suppose to happen on Saturday?

Anyway… back to my story. Two days ago I set a copy of the church tax ID certificate on my desk so that I'd remember to bring it to the store. Did I remember to do this? Yes, I did remember it… once I was in the CompUSA parking lot.:oops: The story worked out well enough, they still had a copy on file in the commercial sales department from the last time I was there, but it could have been a major hassle otherwise.

My brain has also been MIA the last two nights while trying to write papers. Last night, I tried to write up a 2.5-3 page paper on the problems inherent in Theravada Buddhism (i.e. most people aren't satisfied with a religion without a Supreme Being). This was an easy topic that I've written on a lot before, but it took me an hour to get two and a half measly pages written.

Tonight, I tried to wrap up a paper comparing some key points about Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Another topic of interest to me, and one I've spent a lot of time on lately. It has been a really big struggle. I've spent the better part of ten hours on it just to get together a rough draft nine pages in length (3000 words). That's terrible for me.

I'm not sure if its daylight savings time (likely) or something else, but whatever the case, I do hope my brain comes home soon. Or at least sends a post card. If you see a brain sneaking through your neck of the woods, let me know, it might be mine.

How's your week going?

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3 comments posted so far.

Re: Brain on Vacation

I guess it is going ok. I have gotton out of bed each morning. Today was my last day of work for the week. I am going to Texas for a youth conference.

Posted by Michael Morgan - Apr 07, 2005 | 4:59 AM- Location: Sullivan, Missouri

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My week’s finally over :) Since my guineapigging (if that’s not already a word, it should be :mrgreen:) took a lot of preparation time and a lot longer to perform than expected, I’ve got Friday off. Ahh… :grin:

Posted by Flip - Apr 07, 2005 | 2:59 PM- Location: Sweden

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It’s been a painful week for me. That is, arthritis in the right shoulder is vicious and chronic, all the way down to the wrist. OTOH, my darling wife was off work three days in a row, and we really do enjoy goofing off together. We treat it like dating. There were times I didn’t notice the pain.

Posted by Ed Hurst - Apr 07, 2005 | 11:21 PM- Location: Rural SE Texas

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