Stiff as a BORED.

Yeah – I’m bored. It’s 8:21 on a Saturday night in December. I am a thousand miles from nowhere. The Internet is spotty, at best. So the NHL Gamecenter coverage of the Minnesota WILD game is popping in and out enough to qualify as cruel and unusual punishment.

Back home we try to keep our kids from talking about being bored too often. My wife even says that, “It’s good to be bored. It’s also called “relaxing.” – So instead of sitting here mindlessly scrolling through the Facebook Feed again…instead of refreshing the WILD game in hopes that the interwebs cleans up … instead of reaching in to the pantry for another snack… I figured I’d write.

Follow up “Go Six Nine” with “Stiff as a Bored” - seriously?– what have I become?

I’ve resigned to writing about being bored. I have lowered my literary standards of composition and resorted to using crappy play on words that skirts the PG13 rating. Don’t worry readership, I have accepted the fact that this may not be my best piece. 

I apologize. I’m bored.

I woke today at a decent hour. I finished watching “Horrible Bosses” – the movie that I fell asleep to last night. I enjoyed the Wild Bill Breakfast Special of pancakes and bacon. He and I have visited off and on for hours today.

At about 1:00 pm I went for a walk. Officially, the sun doesn’t rise or set. It’s technically recorded as 2 o’clock for both. There is light however. At about 11:30 it’s dusky and stays dusky until about 4:30 but none of that duskiness mattered today with the howling winds. It was a doosy out there today folks. Visibility sucked.

I finished watching “Saving Private Ryan” today too. Wrote a few emails. Went to basketball practice a half an hour early to mingle and make small talk at the school. I stayed a half an hour, maybe more, after practice to make photocopies and lesson plans for class next week. And then celebrated that excitement with leftover macaroni and cheese and a burrito. Tonight I have sat at the table here “channel surfing” the dot coms from Facebook to Gmail – looking for a little hint of life out there.

I can’t possibly peel off a third movie in one day.

I’ve recently finished a few good books and can’t seem to push through the end of another.

There’s not much to do really.

But that’s OK – maybe this is what “RELAXING” feels like.

I am too blessed to be stressed.

One week until I’m home.