practical strategies for reducing internet usage (earlier forms of the moral panic )

horsemouth is going to go back to having days off the web regularly (he says) and to try to expand it from there.  he likes the idea of reducing online time (a friend was discussing this). 

a burner phone is a good idea. horsemouth has a burner (or an old-school teacher's phone as it actually is) and (when he was working away from home) he didn't usually have wifi access where he was going. this meant for at least the part of the day when he was out of the house he didn't have web access.

of course this is all pre-pandemic and stay home. something made possible by the internet. 

similarly before there was wi-fi in the house horsemouth would have to go up the library to get online (and in hackney it was mostly shut on sundays). er-so (and this is the measure of horsemouth's addiction) he would sometimes walk over to tower hamlets to blog (was that bad of him?). 

horsemouth can't read the screen in bright sunshine so if he goes outside he has to read a book instead (this is a good strategy).  if he gets out of the house (and in a socially distanced fashion) goes somewhere else even better. 

he does however, as a child, remember his grandad saying that he shouldn't spend all his time with his 'nose in a  book' but should 'run and play'. (indicating earlier forms of the moral panic).

it's a bright sunshiney morning outside his window two cats are engaged in some strange exploratory behaviour in the front garden, gingerly picking their way through the obstacles, blocking each others paths, tails twitching with barely supressed anger.  miaowing furiously. 

yesterday an annoying (online) communal endeavour meeting beset by poor communication and poor sound (this does not bode well for next week's AGM of the communal endeavour). horsemouth suspects he was just tired and out of sorts. afterwards horsemouth and enza had a chat (this cheered him up). 

tomorrow a work meeting. at the weekend the anniversary of the kinder scout mass trespass. next week the anniversary of the recording session for most of the track on crescent by john coltrane  (and a pink super moon) tuesday, the AGM wednesday. 

horsemouth's voice over piece for Catastro/FILLE has come out. horsemouth is delighted with it and will be hawking it about on facebook (and such like)  soon.