Daily writing prompt

Describe your ideal week.

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This is probably going to sound a little on the boring side, but just remember… I’m old.

Right then, the ideal week…

• Monday through Friday
  • Spend some quality time with Jen
  • Help one of my staff members figure out a complicated issue that helps a customer provide quality healthcare to their patients
  • Play some guitar
  • Take a couple of fun and interesting photographs
  • Hit all of my exercise, diet, and vitamin goals
  • Pet two cats
• Saturday and Sunday
  • Spend some quality time with Jen
  • Play some guitar
  • Take a couple of fun and interesting photographs
  • Hit all of my exercise, diet, and vitamin goals
  • Go somewhere or do something fun. Take a drive, see something interesting, explore something new, it doesn’t matter what or where as long as Jen and I do it together
  • Pet two cats

And there you have it, gentle readers. My ideal week. Or should I say, the somewhat boring ideal week of a 52 year old red head in Massachusetts.

I hope you enjoyed that. You’re welcome.

Daily writing prompt

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

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There was a time when I felt okay about holding up some pro athletes as worthy of respect, but those days are over. There have been too many times when an athlete or a celebrity I admired on a public or professional level turned out to be an utter scumbag on a personal level. Jen and I were literally talking about this during our long drive up to Vermont yesterday.

The last straw was Bobby Orr. The single greatest hockey player in the history of ice on Earth let it be known that he was a Trump supporter. Everyone who knew Bobby Orr raved about what a kind, decent, respectable man he was and then boom, he’s at best a nazi sympathizer and at worst a full blooded, card carrying nazi himself. To hell with him. I can’t ignore fascism. Any and all respect I had for him as a human when right down the toilet.

There are still a few folks that seem respect worthy, but are they? Are they worth it? David Ortiz and Patrice Bergeron both seem like good people, but is there something in their personal life that will dispel that theory someday? It’s just not worth the effort. I choose to keep their professional lives as isolated from the rest of reality as I can.

Sorry about that.

Daily writing prompt

How do you relax?

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Relax. Take a load off. Cool your jets.

But… how? How does one cool one’s jets?

Well, everyone is different. We all have our own ways to relax. I can tell you what I would do, but it might not work for you. Maybe you could give one of these simple things a try and see how you feel?

• Spend some quiet, quality time with the family
• Listen to some music
• Play the guitar
• Watch a good movie
• Watch some TV
• Go for a drive, with or without an actual destination in mind
• Go to the ocean and just sit and listen to the waves
• This one is something I hope will be a go-to in the future but it’s not quite there yet: Exercise
• Pet a kitty
• Pet two kitties

There are a few ideas of things you can try. I should add read a book, but ever since I had to start wearing bifocals (progressive lenses, actually) sitting down with a book has been less relaxing than it used to be. I should still do it more than I do, but I still have something like 390 episodes of the original Doctor Who series to get through. How can I spend time with a book (such as the new Stephen King novel, Holly which either just came out or is just about to come out) when there is still so much Who to go Through*?

*And you thought the goofy haiku were the only evidence of my mad poetry skills.