Saturday 8 April 2000

Pic of the day: The first pale buds are ready to burst out into green leaves. It is no longer too cold to walk around outdoors, and not yet too hot. Life is good.

I woke up early today, 06:20. Well, it is early by my standards. Then again I knew I did not need to go to work today, so could sleep later in the day if need be. I got up and ate some yoghurt for breakfast. After a while spent with my computer, I walked to the local grocery shop and bought yoghurt on sale, and little else. Then I walked back. After dinner (which consisted of pasta, not yoghurt - but with yoghurt for dessert) I played some Civ2 and ate a little chocolate, and fell asleep.

For some obscure reason, chocolate makes me sleepy. If I get angry about the unfair things in the world, I calm down if I eat a bit of chocolate. If I am not excited in any way, chocolate makes me fall asleep. Actually I think anything containing sugar will do, but I don't eat much sugar except in chocolate. Actually I don't eat that much chocolate either, but some every day. I often eat a chocolate as soon as I have entered the bus after work, and sleep much of the way home. The bus has its last stop ca 10 minutes from the Chaos Node, so it's not much risk of not getting off. :)

After I woke up, I took a walk around the neighborhood, playing "Happy" and "I wish I could fly" on my minidiskman and getting new ideas for a novel I'm never going to finish anyway. Life is good.

I read on OnHealth that one in three Americans don't get any exercise whatsoever. I must admit that I find this very hard to believe. I guess a website like that is using approximate values, as am I when I write my "approximate truths" about this and that. I am sure these 1/3 of Americans at least walk to and from their car, stand up when they have to go to the bathroom, and presumably even have sex (which is as good as running 60 meters, if I have heard correctly). OK, perhaps they don't have sex. But they still go to the bathroom, or America is sliding pretty fast...

Another third have "light exercise", meaning they occasionally carry things or walk up steps. Heh. That's me, but then again I am not American. I think very few Norwegians slide below this level by their own free will. Of course there are diseases or accidents that render people unable to walk or work; and eventually old age makes one hesitate before a flight of stairs. But until then, I have the impression that most people here stay reasonably fit.

I don't do sports or play with anyone, so I guess that places me in the lower middle class of exercise. I do walk about an hour a day to and from the bus (home bus job bus home) and roam around quite a bit at work too. The terrain here helps too, since I have to walk up and down slopes. But I could need some dancing or other social exercise. A bit late to start now, I guess. Too bad.

I have also exercized my typing fingers today, writing another SimScribbles. This time I've written the one I should have written first, I guess, about how to begin the game. Not the technical stuff, but such things as whether or not to start with singles or families, buy or build a house, what to shop for. Stuff like that. I guess I might build up a small collection of topics. It's not like I can do much more ... my artistic talents don't reach far enough to create downloadable clothes or wallpapers or such.

Oh, and March is moved to the Diary Farm, my archive of earlier entries. Apart from that, I'm still writing on my series about evolution as a cultural influence.

Well, it beats working. :)