I’m loving my new netbook, but it has had at least one unintended consequence on my daily life: I’m off my schedule in the morning.  How far off is a little sketchy, thanks to Daylight Savings Time*, but I’ve been off.  Today, I thought I was in really jeopardy of missing my bus and having a 30 minute wait for the next one.  All this is due to the new step in my morning routine of booting the netbook and syncing some feeds for reading offline on the bus.  I need to do one or more of the following:

• Get faster at doing the critical tasks
• Stop getting distracted by new content to read
• Automate the process
• Not worry about having the most up-to-date items, as I’m still behind on old feeds
• Get up five minutes earlier

All that being said, there isn’t a lot of traffic at 5:43AM, and I hit enough green lights and open road to make my bus without any kind of aggressive driving.  The manual transmission just made the drive more fun, though it didn’t affect my ability to make the bus on time.  I actually had about two more minutes than I thought, so my dashboard clock may be messing with me just a little.  Regardless, I need to change something and stop cutting it so close.

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* I used to know exactly how early/late/on time I was based on the clock in my car.  When I went to reset the hour for the start of DST, I accidentally cleared out the minutes as well, completely wrecking my morning timing.  I haven’t had enough days of commuting since then to see where those lines of demarcation are with my new clock settings.