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Yes, I feel like a fink for not posting in so long. For a while, this was my main activity every day, reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, and posting, and in my continuing efforts to carve out time in which to do useful things, the reading went, and then the posting. Friends on facebook will notice I'm over there to some extent, but only because I can do it with a minimal investment of time. All the blogs I used to read have been trimmed down to three or four, which I ignore for days or weeks and then feverishly chop my way through with a weed whacker.
And what do I do with it; all this time I save? Beats me. Days feel about the same length, with me staying up late every night to finish whatever it is I do. I have some concrete achievements: I've ripped all five of my Herman's Hermits albums to iPod. Well, the last one is in process now. Two of them I just got last Friday at a garage sale. As always these days, I get a momentary twinge when the record is in a quiet spot and I hear a kind of quiet intermittent grunt of effort coming from the turntable, which we've had for thirty years now -- it was the first major purchase Cathy and I made together. Awwww.
Do I watch TV? Some, but I mostly omit turning it on until about 9 pm, and then I watch some stuff on Comedy Central. I have a TV Guide page set up with the channels I don't care about amputated, which saves time, and sometimes cues me about movies on Turner Classic Movies. We had another free movie channel, but they dropped off our cable, and they replaced it with something up in the digital tier that only comes in in the living room, also known as the room I'm hardly ever in. I do my living in the Office/storage chamber.
The other achievement is watching the new Star Trek movie. Sarah went to someone else's house today on the bus and was taken to watch her friend Sean in a swim meet. This gave me all afternoon to ponder getting out of the house. After I got the clothes into the dryer, I finally did go out, and got two new camp chairs (with arms!) for Cathy and me to sit in while we watch Sarah at soccer practice. While I was at the sporting goods store, Cathy called and said she was going to the movies, and I had just enough time to get over there and sit with her.
In a couple of weeks, I'm heading home for a visit. Cathy and Sarah and I are flying out to Fort Collins for a week, after which they're flying home while I -- get this! -- stay on for three or four more days by myself. Then it's back to New York where I'll be helping with one more art project for Sarah's class (the whole school is doing a running fence thing).
I might have some stuff to do before the trip. I got an inquiry about possible book work. At the same time, my sister might have a job to subcontract to me. As a rule, I can only get work if there are two or more things at a time, so whatever it takes.
At the same garage sale, I also got a turntable that handles 78s. I tried it out, and wasn't really satisfied, so now I'm back to square one with ten fewer dollars than before. Still, you have to try things from time to time, and ten dollars is a pretty inconsequential sum these days.
I'm rambling. Anyway, Sarah got back while I was maundering, so time for me to knock off. I'll try to post again when I remember what I forgot to mention this time.
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Yes, I feel like a fink for not posting in so long. For a while, this was my main activity every day, reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, and posting, and in my continuing efforts to carve out time in which to do useful things, the reading went, and then the posting. Friends on facebook will notice I'm over there to some extent, but only because I can do it with a minimal investment of time. All the blogs I used to read have been trimmed down to three or four, which I ignore for days or weeks and then feverishly chop my way through with a weed whacker.
And what do I do with it; all this time I save? Beats me. Days feel about the same length, with me staying up late every night to finish whatever it is I do. I have some concrete achievements: I've ripped all five of my Herman's Hermits albums to iPod. Well, the last one is in process now. Two of them I just got last Friday at a garage sale. As always these days, I get a momentary twinge when the record is in a quiet spot and I hear a kind of quiet intermittent grunt of effort coming from the turntable, which we've had for thirty years now -- it was the first major purchase Cathy and I made together. Awwww.
Do I watch TV? Some, but I mostly omit turning it on until about 9 pm, and then I watch some stuff on Comedy Central. I have a TV Guide page set up with the channels I don't care about amputated, which saves time, and sometimes cues me about movies on Turner Classic Movies. We had another free movie channel, but they dropped off our cable, and they replaced it with something up in the digital tier that only comes in in the living room, also known as the room I'm hardly ever in. I do my living in the Office/storage chamber.
The other achievement is watching the new Star Trek movie. Sarah went to someone else's house today on the bus and was taken to watch her friend Sean in a swim meet. This gave me all afternoon to ponder getting out of the house. After I got the clothes into the dryer, I finally did go out, and got two new camp chairs (with arms!) for Cathy and me to sit in while we watch Sarah at soccer practice. While I was at the sporting goods store, Cathy called and said she was going to the movies, and I had just enough time to get over there and sit with her.
In a couple of weeks, I'm heading home for a visit. Cathy and Sarah and I are flying out to Fort Collins for a week, after which they're flying home while I -- get this! -- stay on for three or four more days by myself. Then it's back to New York where I'll be helping with one more art project for Sarah's class (the whole school is doing a running fence thing).
I might have some stuff to do before the trip. I got an inquiry about possible book work. At the same time, my sister might have a job to subcontract to me. As a rule, I can only get work if there are two or more things at a time, so whatever it takes.
At the same garage sale, I also got a turntable that handles 78s. I tried it out, and wasn't really satisfied, so now I'm back to square one with ten fewer dollars than before. Still, you have to try things from time to time, and ten dollars is a pretty inconsequential sum these days.
I'm rambling. Anyway, Sarah got back while I was maundering, so time for me to knock off. I'll try to post again when I remember what I forgot to mention this time.
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