Well, the computer was on while I did it, so that sort of counts. I was thinking about working, I was electronically and psychically connected to the piece while I was standing on my head in the closet. Yeah, that's it. At least with housework you have accomplished something.
Many people cite the television as the chief home-based cause of artistic inactivity.
It's all that time spent in bookstores when one should be writing, or painting, or composing, or whatever it is one should be doing. It's just like that game you used to play when you had to go to the library and look up osmosis in the encyclopedia, and you would flip back and forth to opera, oscilloscopes, ophthalmology and Olivier, Laurence. Look, why just look at that old dog-eared copy of Pride and Prejudice, waiting to be reread. And there's a book of quotations. Maybe there's something in there that will spark an idea.