You were sick, everyone gets a bit less productive when they're sick.

We call those "Mental health days" around here.

Much of my boredom is alleviated by being an MMORPG and Civ addict.

Hmmm... had you ever checked out Atomic Sock Monkey's RPGs?. chadu is the author/owner, he's teaming up now to get wider distribution. I think you'd be interested in Dead Inside: The Roleplaying Game of Redemption.

I'd describe it as sort of an "anti-D&D", you wake up one day and realize that you're soulless, and you want it back. OTOH, being soulless lets you do and perceive things normal people can't. The "anti-D&D" part is that you advance by making the world a better place, not engaging in looting and/or pillaging. Truth and Justice is also the first Superhero RPG that I've played that actually manages to explain, with in game mechanics why Peter Parker's personal life is so messed up and why Batman can whoop up on Superman.
Good stuff, and a disclaimer, I do playtest/proofread for him.

You were coughing alot?

Well, yeah, I said less productive, not unproductive.

You can have some of my slack. Here, take it, I insist!

Slack goes with everything.

Oh, I so wish I had this icon loaded right now:

Hey, wait, you can have some of my slack, too! Slack is like growing zucchini -- more of it that ANYONE can use anywhere, ever. I can leave two baskets of slack on your doorstep!

Maybe three.

I think footnoting Christ I wins you some serious cool points.

Actually, I was just talking to Wil Wheaton at the Phoenix Comicon, and he was complaining (in a very complimentary way) that you'd been TOO productive. Too much good stuff to read.

Well if it helps, someone who heard us talking asked about your books, and without missing a beat, we said "go buy them. ALL of them."

And I'm pretty certain they did. ;)

::loffs::

Oh, me too, me too, every time.

i had a vacation once.. It lasted forty years and then i quit smoking pot and it went away..

I think I see the problem--bears do not, in the wild, get vacations. They get people who are on vacation--not the same thing at all. So all you have to do is spend the down-time looking for unwary tourists and--

Hey, I'm trying to be "helpful" here.

That would be bad. Of course, you are a more evolved bear, and so might do something besides eat the tourists.
I'm not sure what, exactly, but there's bound to be something. Maybe you could give them leaflets on climate change, geophysics, and other imporant topics.

*mourns*

You and T, man. The way I can tell T's really really sick is if he actually stays in bed longer than an hour and doesn't get bored and start working on something. I bet you're the same way. I wonder what would happen to such people if y'all were plopped down on a tropical paradise beach with nothing to do. (I know what _I_ would do. Melt into a happy puddle.)

Even as a kid I remember reading that and thinking, "GOD, what a lot of WORK."

Slack! It's like my secret superpower!

Sorry, I find it hard to be too sympathetic to someone who complains about her lack of productivity when I can't even keep up with what she's already published! Granted, I'm not the fastest of readers and my reading time is limited, but you certainly do have a more than respectable amount of books in print. Don't be so hard on yourself.