Burnout? Not pipe related either....or can it be?
So who gets burned out on things? Bored, need a change, tired of same routine?
Sometimes I get bored with playing same games, smoking same Cigars, Smoking with a certain Pipe or Smoking the same Pipe Tobacco, Going to same sights day after day, talking to same people, hanging out with same people and watching the same thing over and over. Who else is like this? Do you take short or long breaks and go back to it later? Do you change what you do all together and never go back to what you were bored with? How do you handle Burn Out?!
Sometimes I get bored with playing same games, smoking same Cigars, Smoking with a certain Pipe or Smoking the same Pipe Tobacco, Going to same sights day after day, talking to same people, hanging out with same people and watching the same thing over and over. Who else is like this? Do you take short or long breaks and go back to it later? Do you change what you do all together and never go back to what you were bored with? How do you handle Burn Out?!
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Does that explain how I feel?
When boredom rears its head there are three things that help: Netflix, Pandora radio, and the internet..
If video entertainment is what I want I can always find something on Netflix. Either and old classic or something brand new. When I just want to smoke and drift through the day Pandora is a big help. I seed it with an old tune from memory and just sit back and hum along. And last the Internet is where I look for news topics that interest me. Often I turn to YouTube, I particularly like the wood turning videos.
If all else fails three is always TPL where I can come and browse through.
It hasn't yet come back. Trouble is that the real news makes me want to throw things at the TV.
One must be -- literally -- discriminating in whose reporting one accepts as "truth."
To say that the internet is not a reliable source of truth, is to say it's not worth the effort to separate the wheat from the chaff.
But, yes, there's a whole lot of bloviation going on..... and there's a whole lot of purposefully nasty stuff being put out there.
But, "the truth is out there." ~Xfiles, Charmed, NCIS
Where I can see pipe burnout is when I'm looking for a new pipe. I go through phases where I focus on certain shapes. It started off with Dublins, but now it's looking for the Canadian family of pipes, Lovats, and Bulldogs.
@ghostsofpompeii Funnily enough, The Amazing Race and Survivor are still tv shows I enjoy watching with my wife. I don't watch sports, but they're kind of like my version of a sport. Sure, the bickering can get annoying, but I love seeing all the locations and tasks on TAR, and the layered strategy in Survivor. Reality TV is a dirty word, and has been for some time, but I prefer it over most TV I see today.
By the way, a lot of people have referred to Walter Cronkite as the "most trusted man in America" when he was on the air. Cronkite was the best news anchor CBS ever had. Cronkite was also a socialist.