Tuesday, October 7, Recreational activities

Post 1290, Day 280 of 2014
- 1,376 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I don't seem to be doing, and enjoying, the same things I grew up enjoying.

I'm talking mainly about media. Growing up, when I wasn't outdoors (I used to play sports a lot until I got to 4th Grade - but that's another story), I read books, watched TV, listened to music on the radio (no pop records in my house until I bought my first LPs - Rolling Stones December's Children and The Loving Spoonful Do You Believe In Magic, btw) and went to the movies.

When I moved out of my parents' house, I spent more time listening to music, going to concerts, and playing music. My outdoor recreation switched to traveling and camping, walking and bicycling, taking photos, and playing warm-weather pick-up softball with friends from the old neighborhood. Other than that, except for the addition of recreational drugs, my recreational pastimes didn't change. It was pretty much the same for the next twenty-five years.

And so it went until I got married. At that point, I quit playing music, but my listening got much more intense, and I also became an audiophile. I also taught myself to cook, and became the main cook in the household. After my son was born, and along with the advent of home video, I went to the movies less often.

Now, though, I don't read fiction at all, and only rarely read non-fiction.

Now, I almost never go out to the movies. Movies have become a beloved feature of visits to my sister in Massachusetts. I watch a lot of movies on my computer and on TV. I still watch some TV, but never broadcast. I DVR anything that looks interesting, and follow a series or two that way, but it is exclusively a down-time activity. I lose patience very quickly, and interrupt TV watching with computer stuff a lot (and, losing patience with that, interrupt computer stuff with TV).

But the biggest change is that I've stopped being a music consumer. I don't listen to music while NPR has talk shows on the radio. I listen to music almost exclusively in the car, only listening at home when I have to learn something to play. I haven't owned a stereo in more than three years.

I've cut down my concert-going to about half-a-dozen per year. I don't much enjoy sitting in crowds, and dislike the big festival crowds I used to enjoy so much. My friends and their bands are all the live music I listen to for months at a time. I buy their CDs, but don't play them (I have a two-foot-high stack of CDs still in shrink-wrap). My music involvement now is mostly active - I create it with friends and strangers.

So, this is what I do: I work, I go out and play or stay home and do chores and watch TV. I cook and eat. I sleep. I try to maximize my time out playing, minimize my time with chores and TV.

Go figure.

Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:          207.4 lbs

Previous Weight*:        206.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:       + 0.6 lbs

Diet Comment

Up a little after some serious late-night snacking.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (24g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, celery, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend.

Snack
A Quest bar. 

Dinner
Organic turkey burger on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax bread with guacamole and cole slaw.
 

Snack

Celery with home-made mayonnaise and Quest bars.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 116+ oz.

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