Happy Birthday to Me

I just got my birthday present, a portable MP3 player. Its a Creative MuVo TX FM. I like the fact that it is all solid state. I got the one with 128 MB storage. Now I need to convert some of my favorite music CDs into MP3 or MWV formats. I also got a special bagel toaster.

Happy is being 66 and able to blog about it. Sadness is not having sex anymore.

Yard Work, Bedroom Remodeling and Resting

I have been busy the last week. The weather has gotten better and the grass grows. Besides the mowing there is yard repair work to do. Two trees in the front yard were taken down late winter. The stumps have been removed leaving ugly places in the yard. I have filled these holes with good dirt tamping each layer to prevent settling. Boy, when you are a computer potato (similar to a couch potato only setting in front of a computer monitor) and a old fart such as myself, the arms get tired fast. I seem to spend more time resting than working. It sure is a bummer when the body starts to go. After filling and raking, I seeded with blue grass and covered with seed cloth. Now I have to water the newly seeded areas each day it does not rain. Then there are other ruff spots in the yard which needed a bit of fill dirt. Normally I would ignore these places but because we want to sell the house next year, these places need to be fixed this spring to look good next year.

There was a bit of water stain on the ceiling (the reason for needing the new roof) of the bedroom I am remodeling. The room had popcorn ceiling and wallpaper. Both had to be removed. Removing the popcorn ceiling was accomplished with a water spray bottle and a wide drywall tapping knife. It sure was messy. The wallpaper pulled right off leaving behind the paste. This was hard to remove. The paste was embedded into the drywall. Tried all kinds of wallpaper/paste remover but none worked any better than water, a sanding block and a sponge. In many places the top layer of paper on the wallboard come off as well much of the joint compound. The ceiling needed to be smoothed with joint compound (mud) and then sanded. Working overhead sure made my arms tired. Again I spent more time resting than working.

Three of the corners needed to be tapped and filled with joint compound. The seam between the wall and the ceiling also needed to be filled with joint compound. And am I ever bad at working with joint compound. It takes a long time and much sanding to get a seam done right. I've got the three corners done and I'm still working on the ceiling-wall seams. If I do a little bit at a time I get a better job of the mudding and that requires less sanding. So again I spent more time resting (and waiting for the joint compound to dry) than working.

And now my hot water heater is leaking. Now I need to buy and replace the hot water heater.

All this work and resting is getting in the way of blogging.

What is Cheating?

You would think everyone would agree on what is cheating in a relationship; but they don't. I think that most people will agree that having sex with someone other than your primary partner is cheating. But there is a couple of questions about that statement. What is sex? And is it cheating if you are in an open relationship (open marriage)? Well, let's narrow the definition a bit. Cheating is having unauthorized (by your partner) intercourse with someone other than your primary partner. Now I don't think this definition is inclusive enough as there are other acts that to me are cheating. What if we replace intercourse with genitalia contact? Even this may not be inclusive enough. How about having an Internet affair. Polls, that I have read, indicate that just a little bit more than half, men or women, indicate that an Internet affair is cheating. So it would seem that there are a lot of men and women that think its ok to have an Internet affair. How about passionate kissing? Here again I bet there is no agreement if this is cheating or not. I think that most people would agree that masturbating is not cheating. How about reading or watching porn? How about going to a strip club? Some would say yes some would say no. I would say it depends on the expectations of the people in the relationship if an action is cheating or not.

To me cheating can be more than just about sex. To me cheating is anything that diminishes the primary relationship. This means both things you do as well as the things you don't do.

I thought it was cute.

A few weeks ago stumbled across Lisa's site. Here she had posted a writing assignment and wanted some comments. As the descriptive writing was good I left a few comments. She reposted a couple times with revised copies of her writing. After the weekend there were no more postings and I assumed that she had turned in her assignment.

One morning last week as I was reading various blogs I stumbled across the same writing on another blog. The owner of this site was also Lisa. I compared the two sites and found they were in fact the same writer. Then for some reason the muse hit me with this:

Twas the time before breakfast, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even this louse.
The computer was on, its hard drive softly humming,
In hopes that its owner would soon be there yawning.
My bladder was full and it wanted release,
So I stood at the bowl for the feeling to decrease.
Away to the computer I strolled slowly walking,
And started the browser without any talking.
The light of the monitor set my eyes all aglow.
Reading the post of a blogger I wanted to know.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
A story I've read, but I expected not here.
I scrolled through my bookmarks, slowly yet quick,
Looking for the blog I on which I wanted to click...

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.

Anyway I though it was cute and I wanted to share with you. (Note to self, put a sling on the arm that was hurt patting yourself on the back.)
See what happens when I get bored
Do you want to add some verses?

A day in the life of SunsetMan

5:56 AM: Go to bathroom. Back to bed.
8:12 AM: Go to bathroom and weight - 259 lbs. Get dressed. Take morning pills. Check 4 of my 5 email accounts. Check RSS feeds for new blog postings. Read the new postings.
8:56 AM: Go to McDs for breakfast. Number 4, add cheese 2nd hash brown, large coffee, Dine in. Read paper while eating.
10:07 AM: Back home. Work on some postings off line. Read some more blogs and leave comments. Work on remodeling bedroom/den.
1:13 PM: To Home Depot
1:58 PM: Fix sandwich for lunch. Read some more blogs and leave comments. A little bit more work on bedroom.
4:32 PM: Take nap
5:56 PM: Eat supper. Watch a bit of TV.
9:18 PM: House cool. Troubleshoot heat problem. Thermostat seems OK. Jumper wires to force furnace to heat. No joy, problem is in furnace. Need to call the furnace man tomorrow. Setup electric space heater in mother-in-laws bedroom. I will turn off when everyone goes to bed. Good thing its not too cold outside, temperature will be OK inside overnight.
10:23 PM: get ready to post this.

Bored, Bored, Bored!

Right now I am Bored. That is, nothing is really catching my interest. I have things to do, but nothing interesting. I am remodeling a bedroom. I have removed the pop-corn ceiling and the wallpaper. Now I have to remud the walls and ceiling, a boring dusty job. Then paint the room. I need to fertilize the yard to keep it nice and green. There is a whole list of things to do outside. Most of these things I enjoy doing. But not now.

I tell you, its so bad, that I don't get excited about reading blogs. And I normally love reading blogs and leaving comments.

Reading erotic stories at Storiesonline, at Literotica and at Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository is usually good. But not now.

I'm sure things will get better after a while. But I hope its sooner than later.

Right now I just want to crawl into a hole and pull it shut behind me.