Thread: You Will Get Bored

Hi guys, I assure you as a New Jersey Health professional, I am anything but bored right now. Enjoy It!! I'm starting to hate soap, except the shaving variety of course. Boredom is just lack of inspiration, find something you have always wanted to do and do it. Now is a good time. People should focus on the now tomorrow is uncertain. @Brontosaurus I am happy you took up and instrument and yes it is about muscle memory more that anything. you can know what to play but to actually does it takes practice and repetition till it just flows. So is wet shaving still a thing? Maybe since all the barber shops are closed.

I work in an insurance office. LOT of service work right now and coverage questions related to the virus.

Being the Gasman my job wont stop. It will slow a bit but some people will still be driving. My thoughts to help give others something to do is clean your garage and storage areas. For some of you i bet that could takes weeks to sort thru. Then if you have time bindge watch a tv show. Although id rather clean someone elses storage than to stare at the TV for hours!
Just an Idea.

I can't remember the last time I was bored. I grew up in the early 50's in a small town in Idaho, prior to television, and with party lines. Flying somewhere else was on airline with propellers. We built forts in the back yard, and built with Erector Sets and Lincoln Logs inside. I enjoy listening to Roy Rodgers, The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. We read The Hardy Boys, or Nancy Drew, and whittled whistles out of sticks. We played Old Maid and Monopoly and Pick Up Sticks. We were never bored. I stopped seeing patients in my office last week, but am set up to start telemedical conferencing on Monday. I've enjoyed time to hone a few razors, walk my dogs, spend time with my wife of 52 years, and read. Although I generally read two to three books every week, there are thousands that I won't get to before I die. Worried about the state of affairs, of course, but never bored and I always have something to look forward to.

Originally Posted by evnpar

I can't remember the last time I was bored. I grew up in the early 50's in a small town in Idaho, prior to television, and with party lines. Flying somewhere else was on airline with propellers. We built forts in the back yard, and built with Erector Sets and Lincoln Logs inside. I enjoy listening to Roy Rodgers, The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. We read The Hardy Boys, or Nancy Drew, and whittled whistles out of sticks. We played Old Maid and Monopoly and Pick Up Sticks. We were never bored. I stopped seeing patients in my office last week, but am set up to start telemedical conferencing on Monday. I've enjoyed time to hone a few razors, walk my dogs, spend time with my wife of 52 years, and read. Although I generally read two to three books every week, there are thousands that I won't get to before I die. Worried about the state of affairs, of course, but never bored and I always have something to look forward to.

Your youth sounds a lot like mine--with the exception that I was born in Pomeroy WA which is about 30 miles from Clarkston WA which is just across the river from Lewiston ID. Where in ID do you grow up in? Just wondering

Also I had a Lionel train set with an oblong track set up and my siblings and I would watch it go round and round and round as if hypnotized by the train.

Simpler times but Good Times at the same time.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Your youth sounds a lot like mine--with the exception that I was born in Pomeroy WA which is about 30 miles from Clarkston WA which is just across the river from Lewiston ID. Where in ID do you grow up in? Just wondering

Also I had a Lionel train set with an oblong track set up and my siblings and I would watch it go round and round and round as if hypnotized by the train.

Simpler times but Good Times at the same time.

Twin Falls, Idaho, which in the late 40's and early 50's only had a population of 15,000, but now it's up to a whopping 49,000! The area was called Majic Valley, and it was a wonderful place to grow up.

Oh man, 15,000 is the big city. I too grew up with the wild outdoors to occupy time. I often spend the better part of three weeks at work to figure out what to do with my evenings. This three weeks stint is a little more restrictive than most as far as our freedom of movement goes. I bake, do some sketching, a little scrimshaw, sometimes I hone razors or work on restorations. I can drive to work so the limit for projects is what I can fit in my truck. The internet. Chat with my children (none of which are actually children anymore). I like the quiet, but at the same time I am fairly social. When I am bored it’s because I haven’t figured out what to do next.

I don’t have any razor-related projects on the go and am really enjoying reading and watching what other SRP folks are doing. It keeps me from reaching for my hones and taking metal off my blades unnecessarily just to fill the time.

Keep posting progress reports please. You are helping to preserve my razors

Hard to get to get bored when things like this happen. When aggravated you can get pretty lively.

My Mother in Law is 100 years old, lives in a seniors home on the sixth floor and using her walker is difficult for her. The home has them all confined to their rooms. She needed a resupply of groceries yesterday which we did for her and ourselves.

When my wife went to the entrance where they had staff stationed and explained that we had groceries for her mom and answering the now normal 100 and 1 questions regarding your health. She was told her mm could come and get them. My wife said that is not going to happen as she can't see her pushing a cart of groceries while using a walker. Solution was not for a staff member to take the groceries up but for my with to do so.

Yet another moment brought to you by the shallow end of the gene pool. In the meantime my Mother in Law received a notice that starting Monday caregivers will have to make arrangements to have staff deliver the groceries and other needs of the residents there due to the lock down. Nothing like planning ahead when you institute a lock down.

Bob