I have looked at the icon for the blog at least once a day for the last week and half. Maybe more. And each time I think, "I will get to that next." And I don't. I always find some other mind candy to pick up the slack in my day, then move on and neglect my poor blogger.
Solitaire is a big favorite. Standard 7 Pile solitaire is by far the front runner in this category, followed at a distance by Free Cell. I rarely play Spider anymore. I don't know if it is because of the ease of 7 Pile play with my iPad, or if I am just lazy and comfortable with my choices. I usually can win at Free Cell, it just takes me longer. 7 Pile is a quick and easy game I can usually finish off in two minutes or less. Spider solitaire has always seemed the most difficult so maybe I am afraid of the challenge.
I have mostly been able to aviod some of the obvious traps of internet games. I never played Farmville, and have avoided Candy Crush like the plague. Never one to be labeled a "follower," I deliberately eschew those games. I am lured instead to less popular, but no less addicting, games. I played a game, which name escapes me now, where you built a town. You could add ever and ever more land and buildings, but there was little value to doing so, other than personal entertainment. I had a town hall, school, and library, but was soon adding things like bowling alleys and record stores. It had some fun improvements, but that soon grew tiresome. Besides, it started costing money to build the better improvements to my town. So one day I just deleted the whole mess and called it quits.
My latest distraction is a game called Home Design, and maybe Home Design Story, I'm not sure which. You can decorate your space with rooms full of chic, modern, funky, or downright straight funishings. You can't really design any decorations of your own, and the ideas come straight out of someone else's head, so it's fairly limiting. But I've reached the pont that to move any further in the game you have to pay money, so I've kind of lost interest. I'm not into handing over my hard-earned cash for someone else to spend. I'm not that entertained.
Which brings me back to my point. This blog is free to create and post. It is completely the creature of my own mind, imagination, or introspection. It is can be used to be cathartic, or at just a diary of my life. It can serve no meaningful purpose, or I can use it from one year to the next to help guide my choices and seasons on the farm. It can be deep and meaningful or frivolous and entertaining. It is another form of mind candy, one I am free to form in my own genre. And I can entertain others for free. Bonus.
As I write this, I am completely distracted by the chickens clucking like maniacs out in the back yard, and the dog chasing them like a fiend, and, in checking on them, chasing them all back up the hill to where they will be safer. These are the makings of my real life, a life I have deliberately chosen to avoid city life and its particular pressures and strains. I listen to crazy wildlife at night, and keep myself busy with bred making, jam preserving, and gardening during the day. I have a normal job, of course, to pay for most of this, but the hope is that the sacrifice now will make it worth the effort in retirement income down the road.
The Blog is to follow that choice, to document my successes and failures, to serve as a record of the fact that I did live, and live well in the 21st century. Not well in the financial sense, since I will never be a milionaire (or a thousandaire for that matter), but that I lived well by my own terms and definitions. I promise to do better at documenting the things that make this life interesing (and catch up on recent events) in the next few days. Less time spent playing stupid brain games and more time expending some real mind-crafting energy for something of my own.
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