Recipe for Muddling

Ever wonder how the day got away from you? Or were you just muddling through without paying too much attention. Try my recipe:

Rise at a reasonable hour and have a leisurely breakfast while thumbing through your favorite newspaper. A real newspaper you can fold to fit on the breakfast table and not have to squint to read. IMPORTANT: Don't get upset at what's happening around the world. Interested, of course. Contemplative, good. But don't get your dander up. It takes too much energy, you probably won't be able to do anything about it anyway and you won't be able to muddle further.

Now comes the tough part. Should you take your wife shopping or go to the gym for a workout? How about both? Good idea, keeps the wife happy and tones your body. And then it's time for lunch. Possibly even a late lunch.

A post-gym shower and shave brings you to mid-afternoon and tea time. Check email once in a while and play a game or two of Spider Solitaire just as a change of pace.

Before you know it it's the cocktail hour and you are sipping your favorite beverage while catching up on the papers you didn't read earlier in the day.

Did I hear the call for supper already? Time to catch up with each other if we didn't spend the entire day together.

After dinner, a few hours of television, watching shows we've recorded so we can skip through the commercials, and then time to blog. I blog, she either reads or naps.

And then to bed, as Samuel Pepys would say.

See, another day muddled through. Did not solve world problems, did not spend a lot of money, tried not to annoy anyone, tried to improve the mind and set the stage for another adventure in the modern world.

All the best.