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How Can You Be Bored?

 Posted by gypsyjournal2009 at 4:23 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 232009
 

I’m always amazed when I hear somebody say that they are bored. How can that be? I just don’t understand it. There is always something to do and something to learn. I never seem to have enough hours in a day to do all of the things I want to get done.

In addition to my regular writing and blogging duties, and researching things to write and blog about, I have a half dozen or more books in the writing process that I try to spend some time on every week.

Then there are the many hobbies and special interests that I try to find time for, from geocaching and kayaking, to reading, target shooting, genealogy, and surfing the internet.

While I have a Facebook account and try to post something on there fairly regularly, I have purposely avoided even looking at the many games and other fun stuff there, such as Farmtown. I just don’t have the time to even allow myself to get interested. At one time I got hooked on the computer simulation game Sim City, and had to give it up when I found myself spending way too many hours building my own little virtual worlds.    

Sometimes I find myself wasting time just watching something that catches my eye. I once sat on a beach in Washington State for over three hours just watching as some freak occurrence drove thousands of small fish into the surf line, where the birds swarmed in and dove down again and again, grabbing an easy dinner.

When I lived on the Northwest coast, I loved watching the storms roll in off the ocean, sending huge waves crashing onto the beach and jetty. After the storm would clear, I’d go for long walks, picking up odd pieces of driftwood and flotsam, and once even a round glass ball used as a fishing float.

Yesterday was a good example of just stumbling upon something interesting and finding a way to pass the time.

There are quite a few huge old oak trees here at the Mercer County Fairgrounds in Celina, Ohio, and yesterday afternoon a large limb on one of the trees cracked with a loud noise and sagged down onto an electric line, pulling a nearby power pole off center at an angle.

The County Public Works garage is here at the fairgrounds, and a crew of men and a boom truck quickly arrived to cut down the limb before it came down on some unsuspecting passerby or vehicle.

A project like this is pretty far removed from my usual day, so I sat down at a picnic table and watched as a worker climbed into the boom bucket, raised himself into the tree, and used a chain saw to cut away branches and smaller limbs until he could get to the broken limb.

As the close up photo shows, the offending limb was probably eighteen inches in diameter, and certainly weighed several hundred pounds, so the trimming job required a lot of caution. I sure was glad our motorhome wasn’t under it when that thing let go!

Thought For The Day – It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

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  5 Responses to “How Can You Be Bored?”

  1. Ed Hackenbruch says:
    September 23, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    I was once told as a child that only boring people get bored.

  2. Jerry and Suzy LeRoy says:
    September 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    After we retired we found it nearly impossible to get bored. Even unpleasant chores (like doing laundry) can be interesting, especially if some idiot is at the laundry at the same time. Laundry is my chore this morning, so we’ll have to wait and see!

  3. Rick Devoy says:
    September 23, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Jerry and Suzy, I’m holding off from doing mine until Friday, so you won’t see me there! ;>)

  4. Linda & Dave Pestes says:
    September 23, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    I chuckle when people, who find out that we fulltime rv, say….”well, what do you DO? Isn’t it boring”….yeah, boring, uh huh, anybody bored doing this obviously didn’t try to enjoy their stick & brick lifestye either! Absolutely nothing boring about seeing new stuff, meeting new people and having freedom.

  5. CoolJudy says:
    September 23, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    I’m a big “internet researcher” — give me a topic and let me go. BUT, here’s a game that will drive you crazy: Animal Farm. Go to: http://www.shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi

    I won’t give you any hints to get you started other than it is a word association game based on squares with various “themes”. You start with one square but then must find connections by guessing correct words that will eventually open new squares.
    I spent a good two-three months on this one and eventually did seek collaboration with a niece. There are “cheats” out there but why go there — unless you are bored!
    — Judy

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