Monday, July 9, 2012

Busy Doing Nothing

I could say that I've been too busy to post, but that would be a lie.  I suppose you could call it laziness, this urge I have to do nothing, except that it's an active nothing.  I'm not ticking things off my to-do list, but my lack of accomplishment is not due to sitting around.

I've been taking long walks.  My favourite thing to do on a sunny day is to get up early, before the heat hits, and go on an hour-long ramble.  I stop to smell the flowers, and you can see on my Twitter feed that I'm critter-spotting.  I get enthusiastic about chipmunks, garter snakes, irridesent bugs, and lawn-nibbling bunnies.  I wonder what people think when I stand in front of their house for ten minutes staring at their garden.  If they can't see the pretty birdy I'm watching they might think I'm insane, or casing the joint for a robbery.  In any case, no one has chased me away yet.

I have learned some things.  If those things are useless, do they count as accomplishments?

I learned how to play a new game.  It's a kind of role-playing card game called Munchkin.  I've seen kids play games like this in the past, and had no idea what they were up to.  There were six of us playing, and only one person had played before.  At first it was complete chaos.  I had cards in my hand ranging from "Level 8 Ghoulfriends" through to "+2 Obnoxious Halitosis".  I did what the experienced gamer told me too and tried to follow the reasoning behind what was going on.

The neat part was that all this confusion gradually resolved into a fun and logical game.  By the end  it made sense to all of us.

Actually the neatest part was when I won! :-)  I vanquished a Level 2 Ugly Chicken to sweep to victory.   Therefore I maintain: although it might seem that I'm not accomplishing much, I am very busy.

9 comments:

DarcKnyt said...

Weird -- Munchkin has been around for a long time, but I'm only now starting to hear about it in a couple of circles. Interesting.

I like long walks, too. My bad back, however, hates them. Guess who wins those arguments?

Lynn said...

That game sounds fun. :)

LL Cool Joe said...

Well I'm glad you are having fun whether you are busy or not.

Bird Spotting, Bingo playing and now Munchkin winner. I'm impressed!

Warped Mind of Ron said...

When you defeat the level 50 Master Evil Squirrel let me know...

Jenski said...

I love spending time walking. Sounds like fun busy!

Jameil said...

Yay active nothing! I'm so perplexed by that game... but unwillingly to learn how to play. I like word games so I can flaunt my genius. :) Also... there are some beautiful houses on my long run route and I'm sometimes afraid someone will think I'm casing the joint!

Granny Annie said...

Never heard of Munchkin. I'm not very tolerant of perplexing games. If the rules aren't straight forward then I give up and move on to something else. Congratulations on your win and your walk:)

Tracy Moore said...

Hey...sounds like important business to me Spark! I'm being serious too. There's a lot to be said for just being sometimes without the mad dash to get something done. Good for you! I've been doing a lot of nothing myself the past several days. Haven't even been online much at all.

DarcsFalcon said...

Games are important to ... lots of things. :) I think of them as brain exercise, heheheh.

Glad you hear you're having a good time!