Deck Lover

After work today I was out on the deck assembling our outdoor table. I love decks, and I love sitting at a table on a deck even more. Drinking a beer, watching birds, scrambling with friends in the sun. I can't get enough deck.

Importantly, unlike every other deck I've sat on, today's deck is 19 stories above the ground. When I watch the birds on it, I'm looking down. That happened tonight, a score of sparrow-like birds were flitting about below me, doing loops and surfing the winds. I watched them for a few minutes and thought, this is all these birds do with their time? Fly around doing a barrel roll? After evolving to master flight?

Then I thought of all the evolved humans currently sitting on the couch watching television instead of flying around doing tricks. If I could fly, I would flit about aimlessly too. Then I got bored, went inside and watched television.