Freeday 7 June 2002

Pic of the day: Walk of life...

Just a day

I took a walk today. After all, if I can walk back and forth across the island of Vvardenfell (where the game of Morrowind takes place) I may as well take a walk here where it actually is good for my body. The sun was just in the process of setting; that process takes a long, long time here in Norway at this time of the year. As I walked uphill and downhill, through forest and across meadow, it seemed that I walked into and out of sunset. It was as if time itself hovered undecided, and could not decide what way the sun should go. I know that feeling. Go to bed or stay up? It's quite a hard choice sometimes ...

I think my hand is getting better. It's hard to say whether this is because of the physical therapy or simply because it's June and not as much stress at work. The hand used to get better in the summer also earlier years, it's just that it did not hurt as badly then as it did this year. So it is hard to compare exactly. But I'm glad it doesn't hurt as much as it did. And I'm glad playing Morrowind seems to have little or no negative effect. Actually it seems to hurt less than Dark Age of Camelot, perhaps because there is less typing (no typing, actually) or perhaps because there is less stress. It is a single player game, after all; I can just right-click to pause the game when I want to. You can't do that in multi-player games; and you can't always do that with work either.

I've got a light chest cough the last couple days. It is uncomfortable, but it does not really affect my breathing at this time. I walked uphill with no particular strain when I took that walk. I suppose that's a good sign. I am still kinda nervous about these things because of my childhood asthma. Anything that affects my breathing has the potential to scare me. That's ironic, since a more likely cause of death now would be overeating and laziness. I'm still not quite overweight, I think, but I have more fat than I need. At my age that is not necessarily a good thing for a man.

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Oops. Fell asleep in front of the computer again, woke up and slunk off to bed and slept another 6-7 hours. Do we see a pattern here? Or do we just see a very comfortable chair and a very boring entry? Anyway, I'll shut up now. If I can't even keep myself awake ...