Other than Christmas, May is my busiest month with both son’s birthdays and Akra’s within days of each other. This is also the month we start our camping season, so there are lots of things to organise with that, plus there’s the extra chores I seem to create the second I step out into our garden.

It does get to the point where it would be nice to escape and be totally utterly lazy for a while and the news that NASA is paying $5000 a month for people to lie in bed did sound very tempting at first.

Reading more details of the study it does appear promising. 90 days of bed rest and there’s computer and internet access. It could be the first time ever I get a character above level 35 in a MMORPG! They also encourage you to go in with a goal – like learn a language or studying towards a career change – it’s not just paid time off from your normal life, but could be a good long term career investment too.

But the more I think about it, the appeal wears off, which probably means that I’m going to have to relinquish my nerd badge. I’d miss the outdoors… walking to and from school with the kids, going on a bike ride in the nice weather, pottering around outside pretending to pull weeds. The warning about permanent loss of bone density is a bit scary too.

It’s probably not available to those of us outside the US anyway.