If you woke up Tuesday morning and all your plans for the day were unexpectedly cancelled, what would you do with yourself all day?

After a good long run, I’d have a great breakfast, and then one of two things. Depending on the weather, either:

a) Go on a long hike
or
b) go to a museum

Or, really, go to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, then do the Lands End hike.

Organize and tidy up the garages. Catch up on the paperwork.

That kind of thing does happen in my line of work every so often, sometimes catches me off guard and laze around the house, other times use it to get in an extra game of golf or catch up on odd chores.

So many choices, so little time. I guess I could work on the car, work on the boat, do yard work, catch up on my paperwork, or play golf. After much deliberation, I usually play golf. Everything else will still be waiting for me tomorrow.

Wow. Awesome, @zenvelo. I’ll join you for the last ½ of the hike and all the museum.

Productive, but nothing fun @stanleybmanly? Sneak away for a bit?

Good to see you, @SQUEEKY2! I vote for at least a round or 2 of golf.

Yup. Good man, @Jaxk. Golf and maybe a bit of yardwork.

Pot of coffee on the patio, listening to hundreds of birds greeting the day. Depending on who’s around, maybe some morel hunting in the woods, fishing or my rainy~day failsafe, cleaning, reading, exercising, backyard puttering, messing w the pet dogs & birds.

Your morels have to be passed, @KNOWITALL. I didn’t pick a single one this year – the two I saw were too small.
Because it’s been dry here, it’s the first spring in years that the yard hasn’t looked like spit.

Go back to bed and snuggle with the wife and later in the day go kayaking.

Nice, @Cruiser!

Good to see you @KNOWITALL ! I have missed you!

I would go back to sleep.

Hey Zen, yes we’ll see how it goes! Missed many of you more than I thought. Ibstubro~we got quite a bit down here! Twice. Too many ticks though ewww

@ibtsubro & KNOWITALL Morels! I love morels. I still haven’t had much success growing them.

It was too dry here this year, @Espiritus_Corvus. I didn’t find any, and the kids that had me on speed dial for when they found too many never called.

One year. Once, I had grocery bags full of them, and I had all the mushrooms I wanted. Breaded and froze some and ate of them 3–4 times after the season passed.

Truthfully, I’d probably just do some other work. What I’d LIKE to do, is go and take some photographs. Just pick up my camera and go and play for the day.

Go for it, @Earthbound_Misfit. Just take a morning or afternoon off and do it. There will be another day.

Nothing.
Unfortunately, I’m the kind of person where if I don’t plan anything, I’ll do nothing. This rarely happens, though, as I’m a pretty busy person.

Everyday is my Tuesday. I’m cool with being broke. I generally work in bursts. A crazy week where I barely sleep and then three weeks of doing things that make me happy. I am like France on exponents!

I have a tendency to do a lot of nothing, @dxs. Curse and blessing.

I sincerely envy your ability to find things that make you happy, @johnpowell. I’ve almost lost that ability lately.

I realize I am a edge-case. I have no kids or car or mortgage. It is fairly easy for me to float around and talk about the shitty pizza in NYC.

I have none of those constraints, @johnpowell, and yet, find it amazingly difficult to find happy.

I think it is a function of so much bad I no longer care. I have to move out of my apartment on May 11th… 10 days… sigh. I have no fucking clue where I am going or how I will get there. But I know it will all work out.

I was thinking you were hanging out with your sister, or someone.

Plan was to go to Cancun for the summer but there are passport issues. So right now the plan is to apply for my passport on the 12th (that is why I am moving on the 11th I have yo get my passport in Eugene) and then stick my shit at my moms and Amtrak the country until I get my passport and then fly to Cancun.

Thank god for condoms…..

On an average Tuesday, my “plans for the day” would normally be work, so if I woke up and found out that I was off for the day, at the last minute, I’d probably take the opportunity to do some stuff around the house. Cleaning, organizing, that kind of thing. Maybe I’d get restless later in the day and go out for some food shopping or something like that, depending on what was in the house. If the weather was nice, I might spend the day on the deck with computer, magazines, book, phone and water.

Not the most exciting day but knowing I have to go to work on Wednesday would probably prevent me from doing anything big with my new found day off. Also, presuming I have to pick up my daughter at after-school care by 6:30, I would probably not want to venture too far because having to pick her up would be like a clock hanging over my head.

If I’d have known I was going to be off and so could plan it, I might plan to go to an art museum that’s about an hour away. I went there about two months ago with my daughter and we had a really nice time. I’d like to go again (I signed up as a member so I can go as often as I’d like for a year) and explore it some more.

I didn’t even realize you had to have a passport to visit Cancun, @johnpowell. Amtrak was not my favorite way to see the USA, but I only tried it once.

Now, @jca, think outside the box. 12 hours is more than enough time to make it to the Art Museum, have a nice lunch some place, and be back well before 6:30. I’ve daytripped to the localish Butterfly House and it’s about an hour and ½. Stolen time is treasure time, and your car uses little gas.

Back in the day when I was very busy, I would have gone down to the boat and to have coffee and putter around, or take her a mile or two offshore for a few hours, lay on deck, have a couple of drinks while gazing upon the teeming masses on the mainland. It’s quiet out there and it all seems so surreal from just a mile away.

Nowadays, if my daily routine was cancelled, it would either mean that all the animals were dead or ran away, or that I’ve been replaced. Neither of these are a pleasant scenario.

If that had happened this morning I would have gone back to bed. I was so so tired today.

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down, @disquisitive?

I would probably break out my accordion, or some other instrument that I no longer play regularly, and just brush up my chops, or expand my repertoire, or…or…or…