The Rocking Chair

 There are two activities that one can use to dominate ones time, keep from spacing out, when spending most of ones day alone without much human interaction, as I do not have full time employment. Those are reading and writing. So I spend a lot of time on the computer writing on my many blogs. It doesn't get the other things I need to do done, but I don't have the money to do them anyway (now the furnace is busted... again). But it keeps me from spacing out.

After I wrote this piece, I've received on average over ten spy-ware attacks everyday according to my software.

I have found that a rocking chair works very well at the computer desk. One can lean back confidently and lean forward easily to get deep into the screen or look at some reference material. And you can turn the chair much more easily than a traditional four legged chair.

Our office chair, with wheels and swivels, broke. I'm just too fat, but I can burn some of that off rocking back and forth.

Yes, I claimed victory and then my weight shot up. But I just got in the mail a free trial of a fish oil and Acai product and I was down one pound today. Took my bike to the gym yesterday though the temperature was at freezing. But there was no wind so it was a comfortable ride. Pulled out some of my camouflage hunting head gear to keep my face warm. Not sure if the cars could still see me. One nearly ran me right down. Hope it wasn't anyone who knows me.

One thing about writing on the Internet is that more people know you than you them. I receive lots of e-mails from women looking for relationships. Probably hundreds over the last few years. I'm quite sure all my profiles say I am married. I never read them.. well I read one once... or two... maybe four. They come from dating services and are generally harmless. Are they sending them out in mass or what? Maybe I am the target of a practical joke. They go into the spam folder and are deleted.

I pulled out my spotting scope last night about 2am and tried to get a shot of the waning 'wolf moon'. The first full moon of the year when the moon is closest to the earth. The skies were overcast on the day, Saturday, so I had to wait a couple days. The scope gave me a beautifully detailed view of the moon. Unfortunate the digital camera has no threads to connect to the camera adapter so I couldn't get a clean still shot. But I got a picture for my blog.

A Winter with little snow can hardly be called Winter at all. The unnaturally warm January temps melted most of the snow and got me thinking of the garden. I moved the begonia into a bigger pot with some fresh soils. I put in some fancy tulips and some other bulbs by the front gate. I put some tulips in the former begonia pot. Both pots are sitting in the basement. It will be nice to see them all come up along with the new hybrid lilies and the lily of the valley I put in near the end of last year. Something else I can use the camera for.

The Bicycle Federation is having a 'love your bike party' for those so inclined. That's Thursday, February 11th. That's before the big flower day.