Yeesh. So, re: imgup. It is pretty much “done” to me as a tool. Meaning, it does exactly what I want it to do, plus a few things I didn’t start out with. There’s maybe one more tweak (“just give me the URL”) I can go add in five minutes when I get around to it. But today I was thinking “oh, it’d be cool if it had a history,” and “oh, it’d be cool if it could show thumbnails in kitty.”
No real utility to those things, exactly. Well, the history idea kind of has utility. The kitty thumbnails thing is sheer “what if I could …” pointlessness I’d never take advantage of. I was just riding in the car up I5 from Eugene, sort of daydreaming, and I imagined what the feature would look like and got a little curious.
But making it do that would just be noodling I could do to noodle. It’s not doing the things I made that tool to help me do, which are write and share photos.
I’m glad I realized I didn’t need to do anything more with it. I guess I just wish I didn’t have the impulse to begin with. I’m sitting around the house, maybe a little bored, not wanting to do anything in particular … I’d rather my first impulse be “pick up a book,” or “work with some photos,” or “listen carefully to some album.”
I think some of this is recent back problems. I let myself stop running for a few weeks and tightened up, so now it’s a back-and-forth process to get the stiffness worked out, and it feels great to spend a lot of time in a chair with a heating pad, being acutely aware that I don’t want to do much. But “not doing much” has seeped into things I could be doing, not just things it’s probably not a good idea to do a ton of.