Have A Very Boring Day


by John T Jones, Ph.D. - Date: 2007-03-23 - Word Count: 736 Share This!

We humanoids thrive on excitement. We are right now in the middle of March Madness when exhausted basketball teams put everything on the line to get into the Sweet Sixteen, the Final Four, and the Championship Game...blah, blah, blah. The NIT is on too, whatever that is. It's the not-so-hot or the "unlucky" teams I guess. However, I do know that my University of Utah won both, the NCAA in 1944 and the NIT in 1947. That was back when everybody knew what the NIT was because it was more prestigious than the NCAA tournament...blah, blah, blah. I remember listening to the NIT game on the radio at a small neighborhood store next door to my home (where there was no working radio other than a crystal set I made). Utah played the powerhouse Kentucky. Little Wat Masaka held the great Ralph Beard to 1 point. That won the game for Utah. Utah's Vern Gardner opened a gas station in Roy, Utah and I use to see Arnie Ferrin playing a gum ball machine. They both scored 15 points at the NIT and Vern Gardner had his jersey retired...blah, blah, blah. Vadal Peterson was Utah's coach. His brother at a later date was my high school teacher. He taught us how to chose a vocation. I decided to become an undertaker but when I went to Korea and saw the war and all, I decided not to be an undertaker. I can't remember the name of ... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The above paragraph is what I call "boring." Nobody can take the "excitement" all the time and we need a boring day. You can sit around all day reading the above paragraph if you want a completely boring day, but even in boredom, we need some variety. Here are some other exercises to overcome excitement:

Exercise 1: Pull the plug on the television. Sit very close to the television and watch the screen very carefully. You should see nothing but the screen. Now take your remote and push the power button. Look at the screen. It should be blank. Push the power button again. Watch the screen. Eventually you will start seeing things on the screen that aren't there. That is the time to go to Exercise 2.

Exercise 2: Search the house for a copy of the Bible. If you can't find one, find one on the Internet. Read the First Chapter of Numbers over and over again. Drink something to keep you completely awake. Keep reading until you don't have to read anymore because you have Numbers memorized. Now repeat the chapter over and over and over until you just can't take the boredom anymore. 21 Those that were anumbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

22 ¶ Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their apolls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

24 ¶ Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

26 ¶ Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

28 ¶ Of the children of aIssachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

When you have had it with Numbers, go to the next exercise. Do not scream. Just go before you do.

Exercise 3: Read the first paragraph of this article seven times seven and then repeat Exercises 1 and 2.

Have a boring day!


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copyright©2007 John Taylor Jones, Ph.D. John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."

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