Trying to avoid being bored (long - hopefully won't bore you :)
I decided to treat myself to significant time off work, so even though It would mean taking more than my use-or-lose leave, I took today off and all of next week. Initially yesterday all government workers (at least in my section) got email saying we would only get two hours off early Monday. Since I was taking off of Monday off, that didn't apply to me (you need to be at work that day to qualify). Today though another email went out (even on day off I logged in to check a few things) saying the President (thank you Obama!) gave us the whole day off. So that means less of my leave I have to burn. While this is not technically a whine, since I do consider myself VERY lucky to have a nice job in today's time, my pay has been frozen for the past two years with the possibility of it happening again. So small perks like that are nice.
The only thing is I have no idea what I want to do with myself for the next week and a half. I am not a very self-motivated guy, so it's nothing for me to lie around watching tv, idly playing with computer, etc. I do feel like I need to go somewhere at least once a day to get out of the house (I go stir crazy quickly in the house). The trouble with that is my preferred destination is a casino or local home game for poker. I can blow through hours and hours without even thinking about it when I'm playing. Last weekend I went to Delaware, started playing about 4:30pm, and didn't leave until the next morning at 7am. Last night I played a home game from 8:30pm till 2am. You would think I would have had my fill, but nope, thinking of going back to Delaware tonight (partly because another poker friend I know wants to go, and he'll pay for half the gas/tolls). An addict I definitely am.
I do hope to hop on my motorcycle tomorrow, even with the mid 40's weather and high wind. I wanted to go out today, but wasn't awake enough to ride until after lunch, and by then I wanted to head off to a local mall to see the "Jack Reacher" movie. Wow, going to a mall movie theater was a mistake. The line of cars trying to get off Rt. 50 on the mall exit ramp was huge. I, in a rare instance of being a jerk, cut in line. I *never* do that, and hate people that do, but my moral standards apparently were not present today. The movie was decent, much better than I expected after the review in the Washington Post, where the movie critic slammed it (1 1/2 stars). Maybe he was turned off by seeing Cruise shirtless (not that bad a view, even coming from a heterosexual male like myself :).
Ok, time to go have some dinner (not that hungry after filling myself with popcorn during the movie), and then decide if I want to drive to Delaware or go to a local home game (which may only be heads-up, which I hate playing).
The only thing is I have no idea what I want to do with myself for the next week and a half. I am not a very self-motivated guy, so it's nothing for me to lie around watching tv, idly playing with computer, etc. I do feel like I need to go somewhere at least once a day to get out of the house (I go stir crazy quickly in the house). The trouble with that is my preferred destination is a casino or local home game for poker. I can blow through hours and hours without even thinking about it when I'm playing. Last weekend I went to Delaware, started playing about 4:30pm, and didn't leave until the next morning at 7am. Last night I played a home game from 8:30pm till 2am. You would think I would have had my fill, but nope, thinking of going back to Delaware tonight (partly because another poker friend I know wants to go, and he'll pay for half the gas/tolls). An addict I definitely am.
I do hope to hop on my motorcycle tomorrow, even with the mid 40's weather and high wind. I wanted to go out today, but wasn't awake enough to ride until after lunch, and by then I wanted to head off to a local mall to see the "Jack Reacher" movie. Wow, going to a mall movie theater was a mistake. The line of cars trying to get off Rt. 50 on the mall exit ramp was huge. I, in a rare instance of being a jerk, cut in line. I *never* do that, and hate people that do, but my moral standards apparently were not present today. The movie was decent, much better than I expected after the review in the Washington Post, where the movie critic slammed it (1 1/2 stars). Maybe he was turned off by seeing Cruise shirtless (not that bad a view, even coming from a heterosexual male like myself :).
Ok, time to go have some dinner (not that hungry after filling myself with popcorn during the movie), and then decide if I want to drive to Delaware or go to a local home game (which may only be heads-up, which I hate playing).