How big is your cube?

As I’m writing this, I’m on a plane returning from a ten-day stay in Costa Rica. A big vacation, in retrospect.

It didn’t start out that way, of course. It was simply a ten-day trip to have a little amateur radio fun and doing two radio contests on the two weekends there. But it seems like I’ve been gone a month instead of ten days.

Time has totally changed. Days and nights blend into an entire twenty-four hours. There is no “work” and “home.” Just “what’s next?” Getting up at dawn isn’t hard. Going to sleep early isn’t hard either. Trips to the beach are the norm. Seeing an active volcano is just something you do.

Things have changed to unstructured productivity versus the multi-tasking, multiple interruption, scheduled mode I’m normally in when I am in the United States.

My cube has gotten a lot bigger. It encompasses a new small country, a global community through the Internet, and loved ones at home. It has mountains, ocean beaches, jungles, temperate forests, city and country life.

Before I return to my daily grind Tuesday when this is published, I thought I should write that perspective down. It will be an easy perspective to lose.

How big is your cube?

Scot

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