{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bored","description":"On this week's Keepin' It Real, Cam is board so he's thinking about paddling across the Pacific. Or planting a few ferns. ----- I\u2019m bored. And that\u2019s a problem. Somethings been nagging at me for a few weeks and I now know what it is \u2013 I\u2019m bored. There\u2019s little adventure in my world right now. Very little discovery. And when boredom sets in get panicky and a bit rash. Too often, I over compensate. This morning I spent way too much time on the Molokai to Oahu web page. It\u2019s a 32 mile stand up paddleboard race from the Hawaiian island of Molokai to the island of Oahu and it takes most paddleboard participants about seven hours to complete. The participants in the videos were all much much younger than me and loaded with muscles. I saw no participants that were  middle aged plus men with beer bellies. Some participants spoke of the unbelievable color of the water in the center of the Ka\u2019iwi channel which is crossed between Molokai and Oahu. I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s because the water in the channel is 2300 feet deep. I think I want to do it. It\u2019s a sure way to cure my boredom. The problem is that I don\u2019t own a standup paddleboard and the few times I tried one I spent more time climbing back on than I did stand up paddling. I also have thalassophobia which is a deep fear of deep bodies of water. Whenever I\u2019m in the ocean where I can\u2019t see the bottom, I envision a giant toothy creature surging from the depths with its mouth open, headed my way. Man loses his edge when swimming in the ocean \u2013 it becomes an equal playing field between man and beast. However, training to paddle from one Hawaiian island to another would certainly resolve my boredom however crazy it sounds. A more realistic and, frankly, a sad alternative to my boredom is yardwork. I hate it that I even mention that. What else says overweight, middle aged, thinning brown haired white guy than deciding working in the yard is a cure for boredom. My wife, my son, and I planted forty autumn ferns a few weekends ago in areas where no grass has grown for the past fifteen years. I didn\u2019t much like planting them. My mood is generally sour when working in the yard, but I\u2019ve slowly walked by and admired our planted ferns a dozen times or more sense then. I don\u2019t like doing yard work. I like having done yard work. Another forty ferns would solve my boredom problem but that\u2019s so dang sad. So, I\u2019m bored. And the ideas I\u2019ve come up with for solving my boredom problem are either fanciful or pitiful. When I told my wife that I had figured out the cause of my melancholy and that it was boredom, she gave me an uneasy look. I\u2019ve been here before and I usually do something stupid in times like this. And she\u2019s right. And I\u2019m sure I will. Will it be to paddleboard across the ocean? Or gobs of ferns? Good lord. What\u2019s wrong with me? I\u2019m Cam Marston and I\u2019m just trying to Keep it Real. ","author_name":"Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston","author_url":"https:\/\/cammarston.com\/keepin-it-real-with-cam-marston\/","html":"