The Daily Challenge

Do 100 push-ups -FAILED!!! Spend an hour straight alone with yourself.

I do this on a daily basis. I am up well before my wife (even after 10 years since retiring from the Army, I still find myself getting up at 5am). I use that time to brew up a pot of coffee and I just then sit and do nothing for an hour or so sipping on my cup of Joe. If on the rare occasion I oversleep and she gets up with me, I find myself getting a bit anxious because I haven’t had my alone time.

Sunday morning it was raining, so I popped open the garage door, sat in a lawn chair drinking my coffee, and watched it rain as the sun came up. I really can’t tell you what I think about during these times. Sometimes my mind is totally blank, sometimes I’ll review the previous day in my head or go over my plans for the current one. Occasionally I will get philosophical and ponder life’s great mysteries and try and solve them. I enjoy my alone time.

In other news, I totally forgot to do the push-ups. I just spaced it. I thought about them a few times but was tied up with something else at that moment. But when I had the time, the thought of doing them never occurred to me. I will do 200 of them Monday to make up for them.