A Footnote to the Post on Attention Deficit Trait

I've been spending a lot of time lately working in the studio and cleaning up the property, preparing for the summer season. Every evening, I come in, sit down to post about a new piece or catch up on stuff I wanted to cover during the weeks my computer was down, only to find that the day of heavy labor has left me too wiped out to really focus on words and ideas. It's been a little frustrating, but the weather has been so exciting after a long winter that I just can't help being outside.

So, last night I was talking about that with my girlfriend, Sandra, and we were kind of comparing notes on our experience of managing the spinny head/busy hands split referenced in the previous post about the discussion over at collision detection. In the process, we seem to have discovered a corrolary that I wasn't really consciously aware of before: When you need to bounce between working and thinking, it seems to work best if you do the thinking first. Maybe that's obvious, or maybe it only seems obvious once it's been said, but we both have experienced the problem of being too physically beat to do quality thinking. Neither of us can think of a time when thinking really wore us down too much to go out and get some physical work done…

Just a thought.