Efficiency

Before lunch today, I'd shopped for groceries, picked up the mail, solved my mother's problem with her e-mail (which turned out to be an overzealous firewall) and backed up two CD's worth of photos. Since then, I've made some gestures in the general direction of cleaning and tidying, finished off a couple of books, run the dishwasher, and even done a little work. And the proto-novel (those of you who've been reading for a while might remember that) is nibbling at my brain again.