#381 - Thanks Resting Day

I managed to stay in bed until eleven, which was far earlier than I’d expected after staying up until six in the morning writing a story.

You can probably imagine how happy I was not to have to go to work or I’d have been up two hours earlier. Not that I haven’t done that a few times recently. The joy of today was that we had no plans or obligations. I could do exactly what I wanted without any fear of missing out or getting behind.

Robyn and kiddo #2 decided to go see a movie. It was Resident Evil, and I had no interest in seeing that or leaving the house for that matter. There was no way I was going to wait in any lines of any kind today.

Since the left to see a movie, I decided to rent one on Apple TV. I ended up with The Uprising, starring Andrew Garfield. It covers a period of Britian’s history I am not too familiar with, so it intrigued me.

It was based on the true story of an uprising that is believed to have inspired the legend of Robin Hood. The story takes place shortly after the black death has halved the population and the child king Richard II and his advisors start heavily taxing the commoners because the Crown is in severe financial ruins.

Garfield carries the film and puts in a good performance. It wasn’t a great movie. Nothing like the other historical epics such as Braveheart, but they got the feeling of what I might have been like to live in those times down well. They certainly portrayed it as a grim period, and they got the psyche of the nation after all the loses well.

I knew Robyn and the kiddo were likely to eat out at Swiss Chalet, so I went downstairs to the kitchen and prepared myself a plate of fried eggs, bacon, sausage, toast and a cup of earl grey tea. And let me tell you, it was marvelous!

A big breakfast like that on a day off is just the best thing.

After the movie I scoured YouTube and watched all the videos I had missed while I was at the cottage. I came across a thumbnail of the Norwegian guy who made a solar boat and sailed it to Spain. His boat was capsized in the thumbnail and I thought, this has got to be clickbait.

But sure enough his boat was flipped over when a passing ferry came into the harbour at too high a speed and that was all it took. He went on to say the reason it flipped over was due to the fifteen foot waves caused by the ferry combined with the fact that he left his batteries loose that day because he was doing some work on them. The wave came and the batteries, which wer acting as his ballast, shifted and changed the boats center of gravity.

And as bad as it looked, he still thought the boat was mostly salavagable. The authorities refused to let him reclaim the boat, and he had to wait. While they dallied, a big storm came and the boat was carried away and crushed against the breaker wall made of stone.

And of course, no boat could withstand those forces. It was demolished and he was left with the clothes on his back and not much else.

And he certainly learned a few hard lessons the hard way.

Luckily, he has another boat being constructed in Norway and I imagine he will head home to work on that full time. But who knows, he may decide to get a boat down there and rent it for a while until the new boat is finished.

That’s the second YouTuber that I subscribe to that has had a tragedy strike their channel and lives. Another Canadian content creator lost the land that his homemade cabin was built on. That must feel awful. To work so hard at something and just have people or nature come and take it away.

I watched a fair bit of YouTube, but soon tired of it. I thought I might read for a bit, but my eyes were tired and it felt like it would be work. And as you can tell, I was very anti-work, anti-effort today.

It was very muggy outside and the temperature seemed to be getting warmer. I noticed on one of my trips to the kitchen that the thermostat’s batteries had died and that meant the HVAC system in the house was not doing anything.

Checking the weather app told me that Tuesday was going to be in the mid-twenties and feel like it was in the mid-thirties. That is hot for mid-October! We were completely out of triple A batteries, so I ordered some from Amazon, because there was no way I was leaving the house. Tomorrow being a work from home day, was not a day I wanted to be baking in my studio office.

After that, I grabbed my Skull Candy headphones, put on the Dune audiobook and lay back in an upright position and let the story take me to a different world. Listening to an audiobook was the perfect balm for a day like today. No effort, just pure enjoyment.

I stopped listening to it when I realized I was nodding off and missing sections of the story. Robyn came upstairs about that time, and we watched some TV for a while and then we both decided we’d had enough. I went back to listening to the audiobook and Robyn read her book from her phone.

We were both in bed before ten PM, and that was completely alright with me. I’d received as much recouperation as I could have hoped for. Tomorrow, it was back to work and a good night’s rest was in order.

I made sure to take my magnesium glycinate and cherry pills to ensure a sound sleep. The worst thing after a restful day would be to not be able to fall asleep, undoing all the benefits from having a restful day.

One thing was clear. I really needed to have a day like this. It’s been so long since I had nothing on the books to keep me from resting.

Happy Thanksgiving and…

Until tomorrow.