For various complicated reasons, all the girls were out of the house this morning leaving me by myself. I responded by doing absolutely positively nothing productive.

In my defense, I’m working tomorrow and having an empty house inspired me to sloth and relaxation when there was no one around to witness it.

(Note: For the record I have no problems with sloth and relaxation even when there are people around to witness it.)

I’ve written before how the introvert in me needs time to recharge every now and then and how those opportunities have been less frequent the past few years. My need for time by myself even stopped me from playing a game with my friends as that would involve donning headphones and linking up via the internet to have my lack of skill mocked whilst getting updated on the latest juicy gossip from Canada.

I did play the game, just on a different server. However, I played so badly that after a few matches I stopped to do something even less productive: watch other people play a game that  wasn’t Minecraft but still involved digging. Zombies were also involved.

Eventually our youngest returned and, having had the chance to recharge, I rallied enough productiveness to produce lunch. I then assigned our youngest to do the dishes whilst I returned to being less productive than one might hope.

However, with people around I stepped up my game and got a few things accomplished and a few other things written. I even prepared for a post that I ended up not writing. This actually puts me ahead of the game for at least a day.

Tomorrow I’ll be around lots of people but I’ll be being paid to be there. That’s a lot different. I’ll still need to recharge, but it’s a different kind of energy.