What do you do during the day to keep from being bored?

I never get bored but lately I have very negative feelings about all these sheep walking around with masks on. What do I do all day? I get up around 4 am, do my stretch exercises, strum away and sing with my guitar and read until breakfast. Then I read again and walk the hallways. If I'm lucky I meet some nice lady out there and "shoot the breeze" with her. Can't tell who it is as they are all masked.

I spend about 3 hours on the computer. Except for this site, I keep away from social media. Don't need it! I check some news sites when I'm finished here and then have my "beauty" rest. Get up, have some hot chocolate and read again. Then for the next 2 hours or so I spent time viewing my old TV shows on DVD. Oh yes, I also dream of traveling but not until this crappy pandemic is over and some people in power get some sense of reality.
 

Try a new recipe, give a fresh coat of paint to some garden figurines I put out for the summer , color in my books, Sew, or should I say try, embroider, clean and organize which always has a calming effect.
I save reading for the evening because I find very little on TV to interest me.
Pretty soon I will think about planning my veggie garden for the spring.
Today I'm busy picking out photos to be printed out.
I am never ever bored. In fact this time of year there are never enough hours in the day.
 
I find I get bored extremely easily..I'm bored even while I'm doing stuff half the time... :ROFLMAO:

I do spend a lot of time on here since the start of the pandemic, .. play games.. don't go out as much as I once did to take my photos which I have always uploaded here on the forum...but once all my housework is done..I'll sit and read quora.. or watch Youtube, be here on the forum of course... . I watch very little TV , hardly anything interests me nowadays except for a couple of shows a week which I stream..
I batch cook for the freezer at least once a fortnight... I don't read books during the day because it puts me to sleep.

I spend most of the time in the summer when I'm at home, gardening.. I have mature trees, and shrubs, and lawns and plants that need regular maintenance..

When the weather is fine I walk to the woods, and to the lakes to take pictures, and to feed the wildlife... and often go to the Marina to our boat.. altho' I haven't been since the end of summer

I sometimes just take a drive if I get bored, and go visit the coast..

I keep a daily journal and Diary the latter I write when I'm out.. the former for the events of the day at home..

I do a lot of things, but these are just things I do if and when I'm bored...
 
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I'm on the forum, on and off through my day. Between those times, I am usually doing housework/laundry, etc. and read a fair bit. Every 2nd day, we go out to one or another small town to do our shopping, and to get in a relaxing country drive. In better weather, go for a short walk. I also play a couple of favourite computer games.
 
At the age of 64, I called time on work, two years later and a phone call from someone whom I did business with when I was still working, I returned to work, and that's how I still fill my day, even though I'm not far off my 76th birthday. As my wife put it, if you enjoy it, do it. Don't be put off by negative remarks from those who can't mind their own business.
 
horseless carriage said:
At the age of 64, I called time on work, two years later and a phone call from someone whom I did business with when I was still working, I returned to work, and that's how I still fill my day, even though I'm not far off my 76th birthday. As my wife put it, if you enjoy it, do it. Don't be put off by negative remarks from those who can't mind their own business.
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whose giving negative remarks ?
 
Packerjohn said:
I never get bored but lately I have very negative feelings about all these sheep walking around with masks on. What do I do all day?
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When I go to the store with my mask on I feel those negative vibes. I even see them when people glare at me and shake their heads. I don't think I can be called a "sheep" in this town when I'm often the only one in the place wearing a mask. Still, glares, negative feelings, or not, I'll keep wearing my mask.

Last fall I was sick for three months straight, first with the flu, then with bronchitis, then with pneumonia. I couldn't sleep for coughing, I coughed so much I broke a rib and sometimes choked and had trouble breathing. I finally got well in December and I plan to be very careful not to get sick again.
I don't have a medical degree, but I still believe germs cause illness and that one way to get germs in your body is to breath them in. Sure there are other ways. I can still get sick by touching things and then touching my face, or eating food prepared by people who are sick, but I'm going to give myself every little edge I can to stay well, so I wear a mask when I go shopping as well as washing my hands when I get home. I just don't understand why that personal choice of mine gives you negative feelings about me. How is it hurting you?
 
I used to go to my favorite coffee shop every morning but with all the lockdown and stuff, I just don't bother these days. Before COVID, I only stayed in Canada during spring and summer but I've been here for over a year this time, trying to fix up the place and modernize it a bit, and then I broke my leg, delaying things further.
I did manage to finally finish the home theater room fitted with all new equipment. So these days I just watch a lot of movies I've missed throughout the years. I've been rewatching Star Trek: TNG, currently on Season 2.

Like some people here, I don't watch TV anymore. There's just nothing that interests me and I just can't stand commercials. I like to have complete control over how I watch something so physical media is the way to go. It's been wonderful and the new equipment really helps with the immersion. I just think it's miles better than the movie theater experience.
 
Della said:
When I go to the store with my mask on I feel those negative vibes. I even see them when people glare at me and shake their heads. I don't think I can be called a "sheep" in this town when I'm often the only one in the place wearing a mask. Still, glares, negative feelings, or not, I'll keep wearing my mask.

Last fall I was sick for three months straight, first with the flu, then with bronchitis, then with pneumonia. I couldn't sleep for coughing, I coughed so much I broke a rib and sometimes choked and had trouble breathing. I finally got well in December and I plan to be very careful not to get sick again.




I don't have a medical degree, but I still believe germs cause illness and that one way to get germs in your body is to breath them in. Sure there are other ways. I can still get sick by touching things and then touching my face, or eating food prepared by people who are sick, but I'm going to give myself every little edge I can to stay well, so I wear a mask when I go shopping as well as washing my hands when I get home. I just don't understand why that personal choice of mine gives you negative feelings about me. How is it hurting you?
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When I see someone with a mask I just figure they're immune compromised or have a health condition and want to avoid pneumonia. People glare whether I wear a mask or not. I used to ask myself what I did wrong, but now I just consider it odd behavior. People are weird.
 
Our active dog keeps these two 80 year olds busy & amused.
We are happy to get outdoors when weather is nice.

Hubby seems to be getting offered neighbors dead trees to cut down .
I hope to get some garden planted in the Spring.

Indoor actives for him is watching TV,,playing on his tablet
Mine are doing things on the computer this board & couple others .
Then read newspapers online,, read books ,,cook , clean the house.
 
Della said:
When I go to the store with my mask on I feel those negative vibes. I even see them when people glare at me and shake their heads. I don't think I can be called a "sheep" in this town when I'm often the only one in the place wearing a mask. Still, glares, negative feelings, or not, I'll keep wearing my mask.

Last fall I was sick for three months straight, first with the flu, then with bronchitis, then with pneumonia. I couldn't sleep for coughing, I coughed so much I broke a rib and sometimes choked and had trouble breathing. I finally got well in December and I plan to be very careful not to get sick again.




I don't have a medical degree, but I still believe germs cause illness and that one way to get germs in your body is to breath them in. Sure there are other ways. I can still get sick by touching things and then touching my face, or eating food prepared by people who are sick, but I'm going to give myself every little edge I can to stay well, so I wear a mask when I go shopping as well as washing my hands when I get home. I just don't understand why that personal choice of mine gives you negative feelings about me. How is it hurting you?
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I find I am a lot less sick and I believe wearing a mask is responsible for that as well, so I now wear the KN95 masks and when we run out I will wear the N95. I am far from a
“sheep“. IF you confront me in real life, I will not back down. I am too old to put up with anyone’s crap, and I won’t.
 
horseless carriage said:
At the age of 64, I called time on work, two years later and a phone call from someone whom I did business with when I was still working, I returned to work, and that's how I still fill my day, even though I'm not far off my 76th birthday. As my wife put it, if you enjoy it, do it. Don't be put off by negative remarks from those who can't mind their own business.
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What you posted is the ideal situation. When you get to earn a living doing what you love, you have it made. Another ideal situation would be to inherit a lot of money or win the lottery, but the odds of that happening aren't good.

I used to love to write software and I thought I was getting into the ideal situation. The only problem was the manager made me hate the environment. She seemed to thrive on demoralizing the people working under her. There's no doubt in my mind that she got promoted due to affirmative action policies because she was grossly incompetent, but she was completely clueless. It was the Dunning-Kruger effect. She knew very little about software development, so she was completely unaware of just how much she didn't know, so she considered herself to be an expert. Most of us just went behind her back when we needed to get something done.
 
Della said:
When I go to the store with my mask on I feel those negative vibes. I even see them when people glare at me and shake their heads. I don't think I can be called a "sheep" in this town when I'm often the only one in the place wearing a mask. Still, glares, negative feelings, or not, I'll keep wearing my mask.

Last fall I was sick for three months straight, first with the flu, then with bronchitis, then with pneumonia. I couldn't sleep for coughing, I coughed so much I broke a rib and sometimes choked and had trouble breathing. I finally got well in December and I plan to be very careful not to get sick again.




I don't have a medical degree, but I still believe germs cause illness and that one way to get germs in your body is to breath them in. Sure there are other ways. I can still get sick by touching things and then touching my face, or eating food prepared by people who are sick, but I'm going to give myself every little edge I can to stay well, so I wear a mask when I go shopping as well as washing my hands when I get home. I just don't understand why that personal choice of mine gives you negative feelings about me. How is it hurting you?
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That illustrates the sad state of society today. If you follow the advice of doctors and scientists, you're now considered a "sheep" in some communities, but if you "can think for yourself," you follow the advice of pundits on cable news and go without the vaccine and facemasks. That's widespread cult-mentality. A few members of SFs have that mentality and call people who wear facemasks "sheep." I'm glad I live in a county where facemasks are mandatory so I don't have to worry so much about "independent thinkers." (Independent of facts and logic, that is.)
 
Pretty much the same here; housework, TV, computer, walks, feeding and communing with the feral cats, chat with the neighbors. When that gets monotonous I get some kind of project going.

Michelle didn't have work and school yesterday, so we went for a drive up to the foothills and hiked around for a while and had a picnic.
 

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