Monday, 24 November, 1997 18:55

Another beautiful Kansas fall day!

Karen had to get up and go to work this morning, and I kinda remember her leaving... but I didn't get up until she came home, about 13:00. I went to bed last night about 24:00... and I do feel pretty rested!

So... Karen and I went for a drive, along the river road. We didn't have anything else to do, so we drove. And drove... we wound up in Lawrence, kinda by mistake, so we went downtown and stopped and had a cappuchino or something... very good, expensive coffee stuff, anyway. And we just kinda walked around downtown Lawrence for a while.

We stopped into a couple of music stores, and I bought Songs of Leonard Cohen; I have the LP but I never play it, and I loved those songs...Suzzane, Sisters of Mercy, the Stranger Song... so I'm sitting here listening to him, from those days that seem so long ago...

Coming back, we decided to go off on a country road that had a home-made "5 acres for sale" sign. Went over a couple of low-water bridges and halfway up a wooded hill before we got to the land. Beautiful view, completely wooded... Karen wants to drag a trailer out there and live in it while we build a house.

I have mixed feelings about that. Mostly about the money involved. And the work involved... I'm not a young man anymore, and building a house is hard work. And living in the country has its drawbacks, as well as its rewards... like, long-distance charges for internet connectivity... but I would love it, anyway.

Speaking of things like not being a young man anymore... I've gotten into thinking of myself as an old man the last couple of years. I think that having a couple of coronaries might've had something to do with that... but anyway, I've gotten my head there, and I'm trying to get away from that. I'm not that damned old! Half of the people in the world are still older than me, after all!

I think that a lot of it has to do with reading journals online... most of the people keeping journals are a lot younger than I am... from early teens up to about thirty years old would encompass the majority of them. And I kinda identify with them and then I think,"Shit! I went through that thirty years ago! I know exactly what he/she means..." and then I realize... it was thirty years ago...

Tomorrow is supposed to be another beautiful day, but I have to go see the dentist at 14:00, right in the middle of the day (well, unless I sleep until 13:00 again!) but I plan to get some more stuff accomplished anyway.

Karen is off again tomorrow; we are having fun on her days off together. Spending more time with her makes life a lot more pleasant!

It was One Year Ago... when I got this compaq and that Jessa had her coming-out party...

More tomorrow...