Well…I’m sitting here waiting on my Internet connection to come back up. In the mean time, I’m typing this on my word processor to transfer to this blog when it comes back on.
It’s amazing how dependant we have all come to be on things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. I mean that I am feeling genuine frustration and anxiety because my net server is down. What does it really matter? Have we come to be a society that has to have instant gratification constantly? The I want it, and I want it now! type of mentality. At least... I do.... when I want my Internet up.
Living on a boat will do me good in this sense. Maybe I can slow down and smell the roses as they say. Surely the stress that is transferred to my body over such matters is hurting me to some extent. Reducing stress will be a main goal in this grand experiment of mine. I will just have to learn to live without some things, or at least to cut back on them to a reasonable level.
It’s 6:00 am on a Saturday morning and I’ve been up for over an hour now. I don’t sleep well here lately. I find myself getting up during the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep. I did have a bad sinus infection a couple of weeks ago that messed up my sleeping pattern. Maybe I just haven’t gotten back into my normal rhythm yet.
On the bright side…it’s supposed to be a nice warm weekend. I think I am going to get some paint today to paint the topside on my cabin cruiser. It’s needed it for a while. Last week was sunny and windy. I bet the sailboat guys were enjoying it. It made me wish that I already had mine.
I also find myself starting to get the fever and wanting to go fishing and boating. Spring is coming and I can feel it. A friend of mine (Dana) and I are going to take the cruiser out one day next week and do an overnight fishing trip. I’ll have to buy a Mr. Buddy heater to take with us because the temps are sill going down into the low 30’s at night and I’m going today to get a new anchor with line and chain to replace the one that my son lost last summer. This one will be tied to something on the inside of the locker…. Lesson learned.
I have a few things to do to it to get it ready for this season. I want to put a large igloo cooler, with the cushion, to double for an extra cockpit seat and I think that I am going to get creative and pull the guts out of my pressurized alcohol stove and convert it with a cheap propane stove guts. I have to order a new set of bellows for my toilet and I think I am going to order a larger holding tank too. I really need to replace the house batteries this year and change over to LED lights in the cabin. I have a leaky riser that needs to be replaced. I need to get the levelers back in working order and I want to somehow mount an air conditioner so that I can use the boat in the middle of the summer when the temps are 100 with 95% humidity. The list never ends with a boat.
Oh well, time to get up and get started.
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