The bus stops here.  Ordinary spring flowers in an ordinary meadow on an ordinary day.

Well, ordinary for me at least!  I suppose there are actually very few humans who have the same “ordinary” as I have, but that may be so with all and at least all who have their own personality and see the world through their own eyes. We all have our own “ordinary”.  Here is a little of mine.

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I added a link to my Daggerfall fan site, at the request of one of my more talkative readers.  To tell the truth, I am a bit embarrassed by how obsessed I was with the game.  I mean, it is a game, not a spouse.  It should not be the first thing you think of in the morning and the last thing you think of before falling asleep, not to mention the recurring dreams.

I remember saying that I wished I could live forever, in which case I would want to play Daggerfall for another 1000 years.  It would still not be enough to explore every part of this huge game, which is approximately the size of Great Britain if I remember correctly.  This is all true, but there are many other things that would be more appropriate to think of in that context.

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I spent about 10 minutes on the exercise bike and then took a 40 minutes fast walk.  An hour or so later I got a craving for chocolate, but realized that I had forgotten to buy before the weekend.  So I went to the shop and bought a chocolate and a bottle of Pepsi.  If I keep this up, I may end up just skin and bones:  It is an hour’s brisk walk to get to the shop and back.   True, between the chocolate and the large bottle of Pepsi there is 1100 kcal (calories), which is about twice what I spent on getting them.  But it is not like this is an alternative to fasting.  It displaces other food, as I already eat about as much as I can.  Except for fat, which I get sick if I eat more than very small quantities of.

Actually when I came home, the chocolate hunger was gone. This is good, because then I could eat my favorite dinner instead.  This dinner contains a little fat, so I cannot eat it the same afternoon as a piece of chocolate. It is pretty simple:  I slightly overcook three different types of full-grain pasta, adding some raisins at the end of the cooking. When it is almost finished cooking, I fry some store-bought potato salad (or other tasty food) and remove the fat that melts out.  There is still enough fat left clinging to the potato bits and stuff so when I add the cooked pasta it does not stick to the bottom. Also, fat is tasty, I just have to make sure to not get more than a few drops of it over the course of a day.  Anyway, I stir fry, adding herbs until it is golden brown and delicious. Then I melt low-fat cheese over it and it is ready to eat!  Also, the kitchen smells yummy for hours afterwards.

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Today was the first day of the year when it was warmer outside than inside. Then again it was uncomfortably chilly in the living room.  In the study it has been quite warm for a few days now without having to use the heat pump: I simply close the door for a while and let the computers heat the room. It is not like the water pipes will freeze in the rest of the house at this time!

It is not many nights since there was frost, though. The spring has been unusually cold, as was the winter.  And that is painfully evident on the utility bills.  I got another one a few days ago.  I had hoped this month would be the first that I could actually start paying off the loan I took for the moving, the double rents and of course the double utility bills.  I guess that was a bit optimistic, but I don’t worry.  I remembered from last time I moved that there were many unexpected expenses; so besides saving up some money, I also arranged for affordable and easy-to-get-to credit beforehand.  Looking for affordable credit when you are broke is usually harder, but if you don’t need credit, you can get it at a reasonable price.  The world is weird like that.

And I think it is safe to say that the utility bills will be much, much smaller the next half year!  This is Norway after all, and even before the ash clouds there was not much need for air conditioning.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed a glimpse of my ordinary life.  Of course, I also have an extraordinary life of the mind, but then again, I hope we all have that! It is our birth-gift as humans, after all, to be a “planeswalker” of the mind. ^_^