Doing nothing is hard work. It is difficult to keep ones mind busy, and to keep ones days from dragging on and on when one isn't doing anything. I've had a lot of experience with this in the past few weeks since I decided to take a break from working on Wootella. I've been investigating what I can do that won't be as time-consuming as Wootella but is still something of which I can be proud.

Project ideas

• Learn 3D graphics programming.
• Study American history.
• Write musings on politics.
• Study electronic circuitry.
• Investigate troubles faced by Free Software.
• Write a game for the gnome-games package.
• Work on the appearance and content of this site.
• Write programming tutorials.
• Contribute articles to Wikipedia.
• Learn C#.
• Work more on RFC-Gnutella.
• Play card games until I grow sick of them.

As can be seen, I have plenty of ideas on what to do. The trick, however, is actually doing them. All of them except the RFC-Gnutella option really appeal to me. I would rather enjoy an extended break from anything dealing with Gnutella (which includes Wootella).