18 December 2024
The monsoon season is about five months early this year. Technically we are in the dry season in South Florida but you couldn’t tell it by today’s rain. It’s been pretty steady and pretty heavy. My pool level looks as though it’s risen about 2 inches.
I can usually find an excuse to not do my morning walk but this was handed to me on a silver platter. I know I need to exercise but I haven’t (1) had time because of morning appointments and (2) I didn’t feel well. At lest the run to the car from the cancer center yesterday got my blood circulating.
I was already going to take the day off since my surgeon’s appointment was canceled. I was going to visit a friend in rehab from surgery today but I don’t like getting out in the rain, or the dark, or the snow, etc.
When I think about it, I didn’t really want to learn to drive. I was way past the learner’s permit age and still hadn’t made a move towards getting a license. Finally, one day, my cousin Jo asked if I wanted her to teach me to drive. I finally said yes and she made more sense of what to do than either of my parents.
I don’t mind driving on long trips these days but I do mind driving in heavy traffic around Fort Lauderdale. Lord knows I pull some boners when I drive but South Florida drivers have taken rude and crazy to an art form. You have to have infinite patience and drive very defensively. Maybe one of these days I’ll get a driverless car and let it do all the work. Shades of George Jetson!
I would say it’s a perfect day to crawl into bed with a book, but everyday is a perfect day for that since I’ve retired. Can you ever read too much? I do know that eventually my right eye gets too tired to read anymore so I just turn over and nap and let it come back into accommodation and then read some more.
Books, to me, are the ultimate escapism. I know some people think movies or tv shows are but they take the imagination out of it. With a book, your imagination fills in the gaps and lets your mind soar.
I’ve reached the ultimate in lazy and only read from my iPad these days. Books have become sooo heavy! I do a lot of page turning with my arthritic thumbs and that’s a problem but otherwise, it’s preferable to holding up a book and physically turning the pages as opposed to a thumb swipe.
I used to read just about anything. For years I was into science fiction, then the War of Northern Aggression, then anything non-fiction, particularly biographies. I’m still pretty eclectic with my reading choices but I relish the ability to read something other than scientific papers and textbooks since my retirement. I never could understand anyone who said they didn’t like to read.
My brother Archie wasn’t a big reader for years but as he gets older, he probably reads as much as I – well maybe not – but his nose is constantly in a book. He buys them on the cheap at library book sales. I buy them on the cheap for my iPad at BookBub ever since Jimmie turned me on to it.
OK, time to end this, crawl into bed and start a new book.
Stay tuned!
