Colleen Doran writes about a problem I'm all too familiar with: whiling away the hours net surfing. And how overwhelming, stream of consciousness it is, and how it is ultimately counter-productive.
"Why on Earth you continue to do something you aren’t even really enjoying is anybody’s guess, but you shouldn’t pick a scab either, and everyone does it."
Read the whole thing, especially if you have satellite internet. You literally don't want to pull the plug on that.