Seven Days Off, and What Came Back on Day Eight

Days one to three were restlessness. Day four was genuinely good — I remember it clearly, which is telling, because I don't remember most of the previous month.

On day eight I let three things back: messages, maps, and one news site with a fixed 15-minute window. Everything else stayed off, not out of discipline but because reinstalling it felt like work.

Six weeks later two of the three are still holding. The news window crept. I'm treating that as data rather than failure, which is the part of this I would not have managed a year ago.