Spring Is Coming!

I finally went a day without turning on the computer and felt an odd feeling of freedom. Toward the end of the day I thought about actually going out! I didn't but it made me realize that with all the Internet and television stimulation the need to actually socialize was sublimated. (I was clicking maniacally and now am limiting myself to maybe an hour a day of emailing, no more mindless surfing.)
I feel that I'm on the road to recovery from Internet Addiction but I could easily slip back into it. I've also cut my TV viewing down to just about only Daily/Colbert and The Office. Of course on Friday nights on HBO (starting at 9pm) I must watch Ricky Gervais, The Adventures of Tim, and Bill Maher, although it was weak last week with no conservative to balance the pseudo-lib panel.

Country Living

I suppose I was the classic dirty hippie living in a tiny cabin in the woods with no indoor plumbing or shower but no one ever said I stunk--hmm, maybe they did too! When the little platform shitter a ways down the hill got full I took a post hole digger, found a random spot, and dug a hole a couple feet deep--that would last for weeks; when it was full I'd dig another. And another.
There was a more established neighbor a mile away, a well-liked community-minded woman who actually had a real bathroom! She put a little can by the shower with "25 cents" pasted on it--I believe it went up to 50 cents later for her shower-less neighbors.
That can belongs in the "museum!"