Looking for Things to Do

Saturday, March 31, 2007 | 1:10 AM

The power was out the whole day, so instead of sleeping the day through like a sloth, I chose to write something in draft for my blog. And what better subject to write about on a day without electricity than the things that we usually do on a day without electricity.

ACTIVITY 1 Monopoly. The world's no. 1 board game remains to be so. We bought our deluxe set half a year ago for exactly the same purpose: to have something to play that does not run on power. Like for a contingency. And what kind of household does not have monopoly?

ACTIVITY 2 Books. Ahhh… Now this is something that I cannot live without. Reading acts as my next fix for when boredom lurks around. We have several titles at home, and my personal favorites are the Sword of Truth series and the Vampire Chronicles. Add the Harry Potter to the two.

Reading is the only activity that I willingly do for 10 hours straight (well, except for the occasional break) other than doing something on the PC.

ACTIVITY 3 Crochet. Funny, huh? But with a reason. This little outlet of queerty keeps my fingers busy, thus serving as relaxation for my mind, since it does not require too much thinking. More than this, though, is that crocheting helps to take my mind off smoking, which is a vice I am trying to rid myself of. Medical studies actually prove this as well. Not exactly through crocheting though, but the concept is the same.

My most ambitious creation so far is a blanket. I have been trying to finish it for almost 3 months now, and I am not even halfway through. Not that I am not gaining a good pace while doing it. It is just that I get easily distracted, and at several times, detour to different projects like tabletop accents and wall decors.

ACTIVITY 4 Magic. I have kept my Magic cards well ever since I started collecting 5 years or so ago. Some of them I managed to maintain in mint condition, and I have quite a few rare and valuable ones, although I am so left behind when it comes to the latest expansion sets. Other than occasions like this one, I rarely play the card game, primarily because I have preserved my original objective, which is to merely collect the cards.

ACTIVITY 5 VCDs. I do not know how I came to have this many movies. Although DVDs are much better copies, and since they are expensive, I realized that keeping the VCD copies is worth it, because someday even DVD ones will be left behind by more advanced technologies. This is not saying that I do not collect DVDs though. Who does not?

So what do we do? We take our battery packs and watch a movie or two on the old IBM ThinkPad. Thank God we have not sold that WW II veteran of a machine yet.

The announcement was that the brownout would last from eight to eight only. Patience is a virtue, but I had thought that if it meant 8 AM to 8 AM the next day, to hell with the activities I listed above. I would just go to sleep.

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