Saturday morning, early.... in These titles mean nothing.

… I went back to the place I was staying away from. It was the same as when I left it. Not better, not worse. I am the same person I was before too. Life is like that. It goes on. Whether we want it to or not.
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It’s cold this morning. 18 degrees on the F. scale. I put wood in the fire. I will warm up coffee. I will tie my shoes. Wait. Didn’t I do that yesterday? Heck. That shoe-tying is a job that just has to be done over and over again. Putting wood in the stove is pretty repeating too. I guess that’s why they’re called chores and we don’t really have to put them in every narrative. What goes in a narrative is the less usual things.

I tried to write two words in the above paragraph that causes red squiggles. I don’t have time or patience to google correct spellings so I used my father’s advice and just substituted a word that I could spell.

Question: Have you ever played hooky? Not gone somewhere you were supposed to go? Started out, say on your way to work, and then just changed your mind and did something else? I never have but I’ve thought about it fairly often. Yesterday for instance. I was tempted to pull over on the shoulder of the road and just wait for the sun to come up and then go find somewhere to drink coffee and eat bacon and eggs. I could go to Maggie’s. I would have to wait in the parking lot for her to open.... but I could do that.

I used to think about picking up a construction worker at a convenience store but I think I’m past that now. I might buy a notebook and pen and write a while after I’m done with my coffee and bacon and eggs. If I keep drinking coffee I will switch to decaff at some point - no use cranking myself up to extreme caffeine poisoning.

Question two: Have you ever spent a whole paycheck foolishly? Well of course we all have. But I mean on purpose. Just went out and blew it. I never did that either. I’ve let a lot of money slip through my fingers, spent it on ‘cigarettes and magazines’ to quote Jack Nicholson. But never just took the cash from a week’s pay and spent it on a construction worker I met at Kwik Trip. I suppose I would have to take him shopping at Cabela’s.

Oh well, you know me. I’m not going to do either of those things. I just slog away in my ruts and make one day follow the next. It’s time to get moving. There is another political meeting I could go to after I get off work. The last one I didn’t go to… for various reasons. I meant to tell you but I never got around to it.

Have a good day, everyone.... a good weekend. A good rest of your life. Spring is coming to the northern hemisphere and we could stand some.