Steven Baxter  Patrolling the murkier waters of the mainstream
media  Syndicate contentRSS  I am leaving the phone at home
What might it be like to wander around without anxiously looking
at a screen every ten seconds? I wo  I am leaving the phone at
home.  Those words are easy to write, but not so easy to carry
out in practice. But I think it's worth a try. Since I'm on
holiday this week, I thought "Why not?" -- and so, I'm going to
give it a go.  I was made redundant in the middle of June, since
when I seem to have slipped into a familiar pattern of gazing at
a screen for hours on end. Not that I didn't do that at work,
you understand; but at least I was getting paid for it then.
I've taken work home, and now I'm doing it for nothing. Work
shouldn't be a hobby. Hobbies shouldn't be dull, like work. But
there it is: my hobbies seem to consist of gazing at a set of
characters on a screen, almost all day, every day.  It's got
bad. I've started to venerate Martin and Lucy out of Homes Under
the Hammer as gods