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What's the Recommended Daily Allowance of Fun?

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (19)
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Hi Scott!
I hadn't even thought about what was fun. I was too busy like everyone else doing what I was supposed to do. Fun for me is reading a good book! Preferably one written around 1800 or older. One of my favorites is the Diary of Samuel Pepys written in 1659. I love books that have no electricity, no cars, no computers, TV's, radios or microwave ovens and babies just come from God; no explanation on how they got here! Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope are two that I really like also.

My husband and I loved doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles also. We liked the old fashioned ones that are photographs. You can only find them at second hand stores now. My husband made a special puzzle table with a little edge on it to keep the pieces from falling off. Even though my husband is no longer with me, I still do the puzzles and enjoy them. They are very relaxing!
Thanks for the topic!
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Scott R L | @scottrl | 5 days ago

I have read part of Pepys' diary. A fascinating man! He had some truly insightful ideas, especially about sea power.
I'm a bit of an expert on 19th-century Russian literature, especially Tolstoy. (Never much of a Dostoyevsky fan.) In general, I find 19th-century realism very appealing; if I ever wrote a master's thesis, it would have been on sentimental character types in French vs. Russian literature.
I am so glad that I have recovered enough from the stroke to be able to read complex material again!
(I'm currently reading an iconography about Beethoven; fascinating stuff!)
Fun, fun, fun!

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