Journal: A Long Time

Yes, a long time since I made an entry. I have been more than occupied with the simulator Trainz, spending all my spare time on the long learning curve and building my large selected UK West Country layout between Swindon and Bristol including Bath.

This morning after reading the Trainz forum, then looking over my route deciding what to do next I started to feel pensive and stuck my head out of the basement door and saw it was almost 7 a.m. and raining.

I had got up early, 4.30 a.m., I couldn't sleep and my leg was ached again. Not a good morning for going for a walk. I have recently, since retiring over a year ago, been waking early. Most mornings I have been rising around 5 a.m. and sometimes earlier.

As I was saying... I was feeling pensive. If something consumes me for a long period I get this feeling at some stage and I will usually lay it to one side for a while and move to one of my other interests and give it a look-over.

I don't think I will put Trainz to one side but will probably curtail my time. I have been doing a lot of repetitive work on the route... mainly scenery and I feel I want a change. We will see.

Although it was raining, just lightly, I walked up the lawn towards the road. I saw the black cat, a stranger recently arrived in our location. I wondered who it belongs to? Walking towards it, I hissed and it ran.