Lately I have been having a lot of trouble with ...

... getting lost in the Internet. Now I find another blogger who took a two week brake from it and reports:

I can't remember when I last unplugged quite as effectively as I did the past two weeks. For a week, no email; for another week, only marginal reading of the web. The come-down wasn't too brutal, as I slipped into a bit of a coma for a while. And the feeling of free-floating freedom that being a normal pre-web person provided was a bit of a revelation. You can get lost in these here Internets. Sometimes you need to clear the mental horizon of all protruding objects and breathe a little to remember what being human used to feel like.

I think I need to do something like that. Maybe another retreat to a monastery. Something.