70 Degress, Humid and Sunny!

SHIP'S LOG:

I took a look back at the blogs of a year ago. Ah! That was the life! Vero Beach! Fort Pierce! Temperatures in the 70's! Swimming! Working on my tan! Wonderful! And as you are quiet aware, very different from what I have been experiencing recently! NULITELY - The Industrial Strength Bowel Cleanser! The Colonoscopy it self, though the drugs were very nice! Temps in the teens for crying out loud. Suffice it to say that I do day dream about last year, the good parts especially of which there were many, many.

I have to say that the routine of the trip, while galling at times, did keep things tidy. I have to say that over the last few months, I have lost "the routine" and even the ambition to create an on-shore version. It is not that I "have to do anything," for "wasting time," as some people call it, is not a waste of time at all. I can pretty much do what I want when I want within the strictures of my bank account and the criminal justice system, but being completely "free wheelin'" can be as boring and as unappetizing as any dead end job. And I still have to struggle against "should-ing" on myself. You know, "I should do this" or "I shouldn't do that." Having the free time to do what you want when you want is wonderful as long as you have a sense of what it is that you want. There is a big difference between " being " and "doing" but also as beg a difference between "being" and "rotting away."

The again, i had to pay the bills today. Well, actually I didn't pay them so much as organized to pay them - balancing my checkbook, listing the bills, - that sort of thing. And as the bills get paid online, it really only takes the moving of electrons from here to there, so long as my electrons are the right ones for the right amounts. Of course, it didn't help that "POWERBALL" raised the cost of a ticket. It was hard enough to justify spend $1 when the prize got over $100,000,000. Now with the cost going up to $2, I doubt that I will be able in good conscience to buy why shy of a half-a-billion pay out! It would be fun to win though. I would become a reincarnation of "John Bersford Tipton." Who is he you might ask. Well, if I got the name right (I'm close), he was the fictional "extremely wealthy millionaire" who used to send "Michael Anthony" out with checks for $1,000,000 to be given to randomly chosen people in the show called "The Millionaire." I wouldn't do it randomly though as there are a number of people who I would like to help out and different causes to do something for as well. Who knows, perhaps I may get the chance someday but it will be a tough call at $2 a ticket!