I am never upset for the reason I think.
There has been a lot of opportunity to practice this one today. Nothing noticeably big but plenty of evidence that all the little upsets gnaw at me.
Dreamweaver, the program that I do most of my production work in decided to get strange and unpredictable. After an hour of frustration, trying to get it to behave I had to totally uninstall it and re-install. The next hour was spent re-entering my preferences and setting up site directory and transfer settings.
That was probably the best use of my time as I was suffering serious caffeine withdrawal. Tracking my blood pressure carefully over the last few weeks has shown me that for the two or three hours after I have a cup of coffee, my BP increases dramatically, from borderline to real hypertension. Not good.
I’ve been cutting back gradually over the last week and doing okay but today I seemed to drop below the threshold at which real symptoms occur. I’m short tempered, have trouble concentrating and feel slightly flu-ish.
So over and over, I stopped took a deep breath and reminded myself that I’m never upset for the reason I think. That and I finally broke down and grabbed a full cuppa to get through the afternoon. I’m ready to cut the caffeine out but feel better doing so in a way that lets me still work.
Posted on January 5, 2007 ::
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