Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

05 Mar 2002, 8:20 a.m.

I'm trying to learn to follow the 20-20-20 rule my…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

I'm trying to learn to follow the 20-20-20 rule my optometrist taught me. When I work at the computer, every twenty minutes I should take twenty seconds to focus on something twenty feet away. I don't think anything in my room is twenty feet from my computer chair, though.

Matt to me last night: "And keep this in context here, me talking to you -- he's really strange."

I woke up hearing someone washing dishes. It reminded me of the comforting someone's-in-the-kitchen feeling I get waking up in the Stockton house ("home"), only without the inevitably-someone's-going-to-criticize-me connotation.