Interesting habits

Today I stumbled across and downloaded an old screensaver that I loved when I was a kid - Johnny Castaway, by Screen Antics. It features a castaway stuck on a single palm tree island who occupies his time with various activities such as fishing, eating coconuts, building a fire, swimming, bathing, building a raft, doing a rain dance, dressing up in tribal gear, failing to see most of the boats and planes that pass by (although he does manage to take down a low flying plane with a coconut while trying to get its attention), and various encounters with a mermaid. Evidently this screensaver still has a little following out there - http://www.gnudawn.co.uk/johnny/ ...in case you want to download it or learn more about the crazy things johnny does (there are some pretty random ones out there that are apparently very rare).

I would like to be castaway for a week or so, maybe even a month. I really think I'd enjoy that. Honestly, I've always kind of wanted to be in a survival situation. That probably sounds like a reckless and stupid thing to be wishing for, but there it is. I think that's initially why I loved LOST so much. Speaking of which, I'm sick of not having that to look forward to on Wednesday nights.

Another unproductive thing I did today (and do from time to time) is research cities around America. I think if I ever actually do finish school, I might be better served to have some targets when the daunting job hunt looms before me. And especially now that I'm going to study urban and regional planning, I like looking for smaller but growing cities that would be fun to be a part of. All of the cities I look at are on the coast, and I usually end up spending the majority of my time checking how many marinas they have and how much slip fees are, since I still like to think I'm going to live on a sailboat someday.

Anyway, the city I was looking at today was Cape Coral, Florida. I don't really know much about it yet but it has exactly what I'm looking for in terms of geography and climate, and apparently the entire city is crisscrossed with over 200 miles of canals! Just something to remember. I think the whole Caribbean coast of Florida seems like it could be really cool, except that it's probably full of old people. But living on a sailboat with the Caribbean as your front yard? Are you kidding me?