A Day in the Life

I really shouldn't spend so much time by myself.  I'm really not very good company.  I'm boring, I'm unreliable, and I don't know how to do anything.  Except waste time, I'm very good at wasting time in all sorts of ways.  I waste lots of time thinking about useful and 'worthwhile' things I might do.  And I waste more time feeling guilty and remorseful because so few of these projects ever get beyond the thinking stage, and those that do turn out to be wastes of time too.

This blog is one project that got beyond the thinking stage.  There were several reasons why I wanted to have a blog site.  I don't recall, at the moment, what those reasons were, but they made sense at the time.  I attempted to set up a blog site, and I quickly found it to be too difficult for me.  Normally, when I encounter such an obstacle in my path, I turn around and go home and forget about it.  But this time I happened to mention the problem to the Tech Dept (Livi),   and before you could say, Wait! What?, I had a blog site.

And now, of course, I have to have something to blog about.  But what?  Well, I don't know much about much, but this is my blog.  I guess I'll blog about me.  (It's OK if you want to stop reading here.)

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I got out of bed at 7:30AM this morning, had a blood-free bowel movement, and returned to bed to give my uncertain stomach time to decide what it wanted to do.  The next time I got up, just before nine, I stayed up, but I didn't get dressed.  I ate an apple while flipping through UTube news segments.  Don't ever do this.  Don't look at Fox News the first thing in the morning; it'll spoil your whole day.  But that's what I did.

This brief excursion into current political events delayed my trip to Bar I for my daily caffeine fix.  It wasn't until nearly 10AM that I was fully caffeinated.  And while I sipped my latte, I planned the rest of my day.  I had to make a trip downtown.  I had finished the novel I was reading, and the only other reading material in the Cave was non-fiction, or already read.  Non-fiction is OK, but it takes a lot of thinking.  When it comes to reading, I prefer distraction over thinking.  Thinking gives me a headache. So, 'going to the book store' was item #1 on today's to-do list, in fact, it was the only item on the list.

The expedition unfolded in my mind as the espresso merged into my nervous system.  At the bus stop, and on the way downtown, I'd think about what else I might do while I was downtown.  Maybe a shop to look in on, or somewhere to have lunch.  But after a stop at Cole's, I'd just go through the mall to the bus stop, and come home.  And on the bus ride home I'd think: I should write something in my blog.  And maybe I will.

Everything seemed to be happening exactly like I anticipated it would, until I walked into City Place Mall.  Everything was closed.  Happy  Louis Riel Day!