Reading

I am implementing a new policy into my life. I will not keep the TV on when I go to bed. I will make sure that the TV is very off instead and I will focus on my plans and I will let my mind wander. I will also put my nose into a book and force myself to read things that I hope to find interesting. The irony in my life is I love to write, but I find it very difficuilt to read anything usually. Unless it is raw data or information that doesn't have a artistic coating all over it, I usually refuse to read.

I noticed that the TV is just a huge fucking distraction in my life. It keeps me hypnotized and I can't seem to concentrate because it is so much fun to just watch and not think. In efforts to get things done when I get home I will not turn the TV on when I go to sleep during the week any longer. The choices are browsing the web for info, reading a book, a magazine, programming, drawing or designing things. I need to engage in activity, not the other way around.

This will help me shape my brain more. I also picked up piano again, I say again which was when I was like 8. I love piano, I love playing it even if I can't read sheet music yet. I can play the a few songs now from memory and just listening to my yamaha keyboard play it for me. I need to learn how to read sheet music.

Music is basically just a linked list of notes. When you play the bass side too it is two linked lists that are processed simultaneously. That is the hard part I think. I will continue untill I can play music on my own. I think it is relaxing.