Quote - > Quote - Bored on a bus or train home from work... like now

Interesting. I wonder what people did about boredom 10 years ago? I guess a whole lot of people were really suffering.

I suppose I'm old fashioned and not easily bored. Trains and busses are great for napping, composing sonnets, watching people, nature, the countryside, solving problems. I'd hate to lose these moments.

The beauty of it is, for me at least, that reading or writing or interacting with this or that online can be merged seamlessly into those other activities... that, yes, were what I would have done more exclusively ten, twenty, thirty years ago.

I spend a couple of hours a day commuting on public transport. A lot less time than some people spend. But still a fair chunk of time.

Having a small computer in my pocket, that I can work on some writing with, probably inspired by what I'm looking out the windows at, or read or listen to something that it occurs to me there and then that I'd like to read or listen to... is somewhat convenient, I guess.

But that's certainly not to say that some days, some journeys, I don't just leave the thing in my pocket and daydream...

I try not to sleep. This is a recipe for disaster, on public transport, I've found. LOL.