Well, I've been struggling to focus all day, and now having trouble engaging with my hobby projects. I don't think there's any particular trigger. I was asked about a housewarming gift this morning and was suddenly off researching birdfeeders for the better part of an hour. The rest of the day wasn't too much better from a task focus perspective.
Too many things going on. I guess. I think each additional pending task adds a small distractability token to the pile. Had a pleasant weekend and Easter, but we're busy. There are projects I want to do around the house; we just moved and all my stuff is in boxes, we need shelves, should I make some pot drawers or buy them. Popular or pine. I offered to run a 'pen and paper' RPG via video chat with my family and need to prep – I thought I'd make a short adventure riffing on A Picture of Dorian Gray but the whole thing is half baked, and now I'm trying to read the book because, though I've read several works that riff on a Picture of Dorian Gray, I never read the story itself. My grandmother passed away and there's paperwork to do, some transient sad feelings, and reminiscing. My wife was going to Ikea and what new things are needed there. I'd like to buy some odds and ends (will I use any of it enough to be worth while?) and am working out the budget and priority order. I still haven't finished the taxes. The encounter I setup for my D&D group has run 1.5 sessions, will probably take most of the next to resolve, and might kill my players, so I've been developing some deus-ex-machina B.S. to bail them out if needed (which is lame and I've already done, but calibrating a challenging fight is tough; I should be setting up multiple encounters between rests so I can make smaller tweaks as they go, but they're in the wild or in the city so it's hard to tell them "no, can't rest here" (which is, I suppose, why "Dungeons" are a popular setting in D&D) – now that I'm thinking about it, I should setup a series of encounters where they're being hunted). I've been meaning to finish the topic-tag support for this blog. And so on.
So. Instead of doing any of that, I'm writing this. Honestly, having thrown that down I feel a little better. I think I'm going to jam it online so it feels like I got something finished this evening.
Probably I should have just fired up a video game and spaced out for the evening (I've been liking Cross Code well enough, but, well, see above). Oh well.