Friday, June 17, 2005

Life is a video game

Today's work adventure will leave you in a daze. I mean it. This morning you actually set your alarm. 9AM, get out of bed, says your piano key alarm. Actually, you awoke before it went off thanx to the friendly neighborhood leaf blowers. You know how this goes by now: check your list. Look, its your favorite, restock some toilet paper. Alrighty, all the commodes are no longer missing paper, scratch off number 1, congratulations. Now you can turn on the heater in the cottage, good job, scratch off number 2. Oh boy, a couple beds need the sheet of paper with the rules, take care of that, nice work. This is how it goes. We need some more beds set up. Get on with it, no time to sit and stare at the trees. Finally, it'd be nice to empty the compost and throw some hay on top. Due to your swift and efficient execution of the famous list, there is time to practice some yoga and tai chi.

You will experience a deep sense of well being after 30 minutes of yoga and finish in 60 minutes, then you will do tai chi for about 10 minutes. What a good little set of exercises you have. You do that every day? I don't know how you do it, I simply don't have the time or discipline.

The next phase begins; you will park about 23 cars. More precisely, you will tell the guests where they are to park. Everyone follows your instructions. No one rebels against where you tell him or her to park. They started arriving around three. Some will trickle some will clump. You'll play the latest Star Wars video game with Will while you wait for the various guests to arrive. By the time six rolls around, you are wired from killing clones and rebels. Will likes to be the empire. You like to be the rebels but then Will keeps killing you. Much better to be on his team. You don't like dying over and over, do you? So, every time a car pulls up the driveway, you dash out and lead each guest personally to their own parking spot. No one has any weapons, no light sabers, no blaster guns, no sniper rifles, in fact there's not even one alien.

It's almost seven, might as well turn on some lights, light some candles and of course light a fire in the back yard. Go back to the guesthouse and play some more video games. Will appreciates having a teammate. He's learning how much fun it is to cooperate. We take over many planets together. The empire grows in consequence of our collaboration. We fight along Darth Vader. He's not such a bad guy. He looks a little funny running around the various battle fields in a cape but that doesn't mean you should laugh at him. Have some compassion. Sheesh.

Hey, there are a couple dogs you gotta go let in. Yeah, your house sitting down the road. It is a place you are quite familiar with. You first sat for them almost six years ago. The dogs are pretty new though. The original dog lives in doggy heaven now. Have a nice sleep, I'll check in with you tomorrow.