It appears that I can only get things done in seriously driven periods of manic obsession. I’d prefer to be able to go into my shop, find a place for a hammer, hang up an extension cord, then go back about my day, but unfortunately I can only be in there for 10 consecutive hours until I hurt myself and get half of the project done. 

I wish this were not the case, and I suppose the only way to make it so is to cultivate it, but that’s hard. The situation I want is awfully close to the cultivation itself. If I want to be in the shop for an hour or half an hour at the time, how do I creep up on that? Two minutes at a time? Five? I’ll spend as much time talking to the shop as I spend in it. 

Which is an excellent excuse to change nothing.