March 29, 1997 - All the water in the world

~~All the water in the world~~

Saturday, March 29, 1997, 9:00 p.m.

All I wanted to do today was sleep. I got up, fed Doña, checked email, etc., went back to bed. Got up again when Bob left for work, puttered, took a bath, went back to bed. I finally forced myself to get up at 1:00 so that I wouldn't sleep the entire day away, but I would have loved to.

One reason that I don't take a lot of baths is that I like them too much. Lying back in the warm water is so comforting and pleasurable that I don't want to get out, and I always start to drift off to sleep. It's so disorienting, though, when I wake up. The water gets cold and it's such a shock to come out of the water into the cool air.

There was an entry in "Living Juicy" this week about taking baths:

I get into the tub and close my eyes
and all the borders disappear,
and I can connect with all the water
in the world.

I've decided to try to drink more water. I think the positive approach may work better than negatively trying to cut down on the amount of caffeine I consume through soft drinks. I'm choosing to do something rather than telling myself to stop doing something. We'll see if it makes a difference.

I went to Best Buy today and they were having a sale on software. I went ahead and bought Norton Utilities; someone wrote and reminded me that you can usually order diskettes from the manufacturer. I knew that, but I didn't know if it was always true. I took the box and surreptitiously opened it and checked inside. Yep, a coupon for ordering diskettes. They cost $15.00, but it's still cheaper than buying the diskette version mail order. Oh, and I found a CD of vintage photographs for $9.99. I don't know what I'm going to do with them, but I thought they were kind of neat.

I've been thinking about this for awhile, and finally decided to put it down here. It's my list of things I dislike about online journals. These are things that cause me to not read a journal, even if the writing is interesting:

I never return to a page that plays music when it loads. Ever. I find it incredibly annoying.
If you're going to do a linear thing like a journal, have some sort of navigation aids to past and future entries. Don't make me go back to the main index page, I won't do that more than a couple of times.
Put "today's entry" on the main page if you wish, but have some way to get to "yesterday" and "tomorrow" easily without going to a separate archive file. By only putting "today" up, you're assuming your readers visit every day, and that may not be the case.
If you aren't going to write more than a few times a month, set up some sort of notification system. If I visit your page several times and don't find anything new there, I'm going to stop visiting. I can only stand so much disappointment.
If you "can't talk about it," don't. There's nothing more frustrating than to read, "there's something really awful (or wonderful) going on, but I can't tell you what it is." Work around it.

12:00 midnight

I went in and watched most of a nature program with Bob; it was about mongooses. They certainly seem to have a frantic life, always on the lookout for hawks and big lizards. They have a matriarchal society; the alpha pair are the only ones who are allowed to breed. Other pairs will mate, but the alpha female will kill any offspring other than her own. One scene showed a mongoose frantically trying to reach something down in a hole, at one point completely disappearing in his efforts. He was eventually successful, triumphantly pulling out a tarantula nearly bigger than he was, which he then proceeded to eat.

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