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hang on to something that's working
Sunday, September 20 2009
It was another beautiful sunny day, though for some reason I took the opportunity to watch a lot of television. At some point today Gretchen asked if I was still digging that infernal well down in the greenhouse and I admitted that I was, and she asked if perhaps I was being a bit too obsessive, the way she remembers me being about the quality of the drywall joints when I was drywalling the garage (summer, 2006). She observed that I always get this way as a project reaches its conclusion (and in the past she's theorized that I don't like letting projects end). There's probably something to that, rooted in the familiarity of a project and the desire to hang on to something that's working as opposed to launching myself into something new and full of uncertainties. With the well excavation, though, there's the added benefit of how simple and mindless the work is and the fact that doing it is always such a vacation from more cerebral things (such as reading about subatomic particles in Wikipedia). But I can't really listen to podcasts when I'm hammering away at rock, and it's hard to justify mindless activities that can't be overlayed with spoken-word audio.
This evening Gretchen made a pizza, but the crust was thin in places and ended up burning, leaving us with a crescent-shaped pie. We watched two longwinded episodes of a British murder mystery series called Blue Murder. The mystery was okay, but too much time was given over to developing a dull subplot about the main protagonist's semi-dysfunctional family life. You'd never see such a dumpy, unattractive female protagonist in an American television series.
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