Not a ton to report today. I spent 8 hours in the car. A little bit of interstate driving, but mostly state roads. I listened to a few soundtracks this morning - The Last 5 Years, Title of Show, Songs for a New World, and Book of Mormon. Talked to a friend from home/work briefly - always fantastic. And then spent the remainder of the afternoon listening to podcasts. Arrived at my destination around 5PM, about half an hour ahead of schedule - I made good time.
Long driving days can be kinda tiring. I often get these huge bursts of inspiration while driving that I can't act on at the time, because, obviously, I'm driving. But then when I arrive at my destination, I'm so wiped out that I don't act on them then either. I had a fantastic idea for a web application today. I'll have to do some research to see if anything like it exists. It's actually a road-trip planning website, but specific to certain theme. I got inspired by one of the podcasts I was listening to. I have so many ideas of things I want to do and only so much time to do them all. In general in my life, I feel like I'm constantly stretching myself really thin over all of the things that I want to do. I get worried that there's not enough time in my life to do all of the things that interest me. I guess what I'm working on is doing whatever it is that I'm passionate about at that moment and not berating myself for not doing the long list of other things that I want to do. Just because I can't do EVERYTHING that I want to doesn't mean that I shouldn't do any of them. Or that I should feel bad about skipping one or two in favor of other ones. I guess it's all about prioritization. I just have to figure out how to do that and not feel bad about it.
Anyway, I'm staying a great B&B tonight called the Dakota Dream in Custer, SD. It's just south of Mount Rushmore. I had originally planned on spending tonight over in Casper, WY, which I passed today around 1:30. But my car dinged at me up in Washington state and it needs to go in for service. I found a Honda dealership in Rapid City that will service it tomorrow, so I juggled around my scheduled and drove further today so I'd have the time for it tomorrow. It will mean a little backtracking to get to the B&B where I'm staying tomorrow, but that's fine. It won't cause too much twitching in my schedule optimization brain. :-)
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