Doing Nothing?

It is a hard thing trying to do nothing. It rained most of the weekend, which paralyses us Colorado folks!
I canceled that waste of money-nothing on ever cable subscription after the seemed at the time exciting Tour de France. Without the brain numbing device to kill time in foul weather, I was forced into paying bills and cleaning the house, two of my not-so-favorite activities. I even went on a bit of a baking spree - making pizza from scratch. After finishing the local paper, I devoured Vanity Fair's Green issue- which had a fantastic article on Global Warming and Appalacian strip mountain top mining. I had been at a conference with Julia Bonds - mining daughter and granddaughter, so was particularly enamoured with that areticle. Onto my book, on Afganistan History. While facinating, it would not hold my attention for long, and I moved onto cleaning the DVD player. Of course this required buying disk that does not seem to do anything for 22 bucks and watching it go around and around for 1/2 hour. Such hard labour! While at the store, I happened to finally purchase a new stereo receiver, something I have been meaning to do for years, but felt guilty at my consumerism. I talked myself into spending an extra 100 bucks just so that I could have a unit that powered off for real - no "fake off" or standby - as most TV, DVD and stereo units are these days - wasting kilowatt hours just so we can have them on in one second instead of 5. I wanted a new unit that would use less power but still work well, and be able to be off the grid in the future, but there sure is not much out there in that department. I bought my old receiver at a yard sale ten years ago - and it is a real work of art - things were really starting to buzz and humm in a weird way. Connecting everything together and back to the store for a few new cables took up another few more hours. After completing my PHD in stereo mechanics, I headed out to pick up my weekly delivery from the organic farm in Paonia, I also picked up a new pizza stone and tried to buy bread. The organic bread available here is beyond bad - and all frozen. I was so frustrated with out local shitty bread selection and my crappy baking skills that I splurged on a breadmaker. so in a few days i can make my own while working. I feel guilty about the electricity usage, but my gas oven is pretty bad and the offset maybe about the same. good justification, eh? I do think of the day when all these gadgets will be in a museum while a drive the oxen team on the organic farm while Jason heads out to shoot an Elk.