Plugged back into the Matrix

I haven't been without internet for a long period of time since... well 2005? It's been a new and strange experience not having the ability to connect to millions of other computers around the world in an instant and to do a 'search' on Google just because I found something interesting I wanted to look up.

There have been some advantages such as I needed to plan my time a lot better. Being without a constant connection encouraged me to really think about what I needed to do and when I can send my work across or check my emails. In a way, it made me more productive because I wasn't doing random things along the way - like write in my blog - to take up the precious time I had online. I took refuge at the internet lounge of the hotel connected to the serviced apartment.

The most annoying aspect was being out of touch with my business in Hungary, and also I couldn't read the news. Granted it was a weekend so there were no pressing issues to handle. If it was a weekday, I would have been livid with the serviced apartment people.

My alternative was to turn on the television and sit there listening to BBC 1 or 2 and CNN broadcast the news to me... I also watched a few films in French, which was great fun, but it made me realise that while I'm really fast at reading, I really suck at listening to French. Too many vowels for my brain! >.<

I am now digressing from my lunch to write this. But I'm seriously considering the positive productivity and health benefits of unplugging from the Matrix.