Monthly Archives: February 2005

Hail to the King, baby

In addition to being the one and only King of all Squirrels, I am also the King of all Procrastinators. You may think that you are the King, but you are mistaken.

I know what I have to do, but I’m lazy. After all, what’s the hurry? I mean, I know that it will eventually get done. I suppose that’s all that ever mattered to me…

I make a list. I have a big whiteboard on the wall, right next to my desk. I make all kinds of notes like, “Memberships due soon: Trout Unlimited” and “things to buy: scissors, clicky pens” and “develop film in disposable camera”**.

**Note: this is the camera from 3 years ago.

I should just do it. I know I should, but I don’t. I sometimes look at the list and all the things I have to do. I feel like I might actually get motivated enough to make a dent in the ol’ To-Do list… but no, I get distracted and I quickly forget about the list was I was looking at just a few seconds ago. “Oh look, there’s a squirrel outside my window…”

One day it happens, though. The list gets big enough and I decide it’s time. I take that list and I accomplish every task. It takes the whole day, and I run all over town, doing this and that. At the end of the day the list is empty and I am exhausted, so I drink a beer.

Today was such a day. I’m sure the nice weather had something to do with my motivation. When I finished the day with a haircut (my first in almost 10 months) I hit the only decent pub in Hayward for some IPA sampling.

As I sit in the pub and watch the bartendress clumsily try to make conversation with her patrons sitting at the bar I think of Chico. Good ol’ Chico. Friendly people and the great outdoors and pub after pub and great local microbrews. I find myself wishing that the King was still in Chico.

Maybe I’ll sit on this a good long while and not do anything about it. I’ll put “Move back to Chico” on my whiteboard To-Do list. I’ll do it now, I swear.

How's the weather up there?

The past few days here in the Bay Area have been simply gorgeous. The sky has been clear with hardly any wind. And the temperatures have been in the high 60s. Ahhh… February in California…

Will it be an early spring? I don’t know if I’m ready for it. I was hoping for some more gloomy days with lots of rain and wind and cold weather. I don’t think I’m ready to stop hibernating.

When the weather’s nice, don’t you feel compelled to go outside and goof off? I know I do. I see that sun shining and the clear blue sky, and all I can think about is hiking and golf and fishing and all the stuff I like to do in the great outdoors.

Actually… I always feel compelled to goof off, rain or shine. So I don’t what I’m trying to say. I’ll stop writing now.