Disconnecting

I haven't phlogged in quite a while, I recently spent about a week away at a

workshop/conference type of thing for work. Not a lot of downtime, and I only

had my work laptop with me, which very deliberatedly doesn't have my SDF SSH

keys on it, nor does it have my Matodon account password in its password

manager, so that I can occasionally get some work done it. Thus not only have

I not been phlogging but I've been somewhat disconnected from my online world in

general. I'm having some trouble easing back into it. My Mastodon timeline

looks like a blooming, buzzing confusion composed 90% of stuff that I honestly

didn't miss at all while away, but know that I was quite enjoying when I was

last in the thick of it. I'm wondering if I should take the opportunity to cull

it mercilessly while I'm feeling distant from it. In general I am trying to

make the time I spend online a little more focussed and deliberate, as otherwise

it's far too easy for me to whittle away whole chunks of the day on nothing of

substance. One of the nice things about the phlogosphere is that it's far too

slow moving and nowhere near glitzy enough to be a distracting time sink.

I am slowly catching up on what everybody wrote while I was away. Let me take

this opportunity to announce that I, too, am very much a conservative in

jandal's recently-used sense of the word.