Mac app (fireside)

Whats not to like? It is as realistic as it gets. Aside from no actual heat not a detail has been overlooked. My PC is in our master bedroom. I was against its placement from the very day it was purchased. Against my wishes, my spouse set up the new system on top of our brand new cherry chest of drawers! Later the same evening I came to our room ready to be stared down by the large, expensive, cold presence of our bedrooms newest addition. Instead, I was greeted by the soft glow of a slow burning fire. As I stood in awe, trying to understand why I was seeing such a thing, I heard crackling and noticed waves of heat gliding up the screen. I stood for a few minutes longer watching the dancing embers subtly shift through it hues of oranges and reds. I saw what I can only describe as orange fireflies dancing in systematic randomness as they were born from the red hot embers until their ascent to the perverbial chimney. Far too much dignity and pride to lose their glow in plain sight. Although there is no actual heat, I was warmed by the memories and their attached emotion that came washing over me. Many wonderful evenings by the fireside. Evenings with friends and wine and easy conversation. Evenings with family and hot chocolate and the added glow of the twinkling Christmas tree lights. Evenings with children and furry pets and loads of messy blankets and pillows, where the only light in the room was the firelight, where the only heat source in the entire house was from the same kind of crackling fire (the furnace only ever makes us aware of its inability to perform on the very first, very very cold night of the new winters season). So as I stood watching and thinking and revisiting quietly infront of the fire, I realized this was not a fireplace. There is no paper to twist and roll or newspaper ink to stain hands. There is no billowing smoke to fill the house when the chimney is too cold to let the fresh flames rise and no commotion of moms and dads running upstairs and down opening windows and sliding doors to give the trapped smoke an exit. There is no falling pieces of smoldering wood left unnoticed and burning outside the safety of the fireplace. There is just the peaceful entertainment of a well built fire. The app is worth the couple of dollars. It looks great. It makes the otherwise institutional feeling of a PC transform to a comforting and relaxing addition to our master bedroom. After all the children are in bed well off to their dreamlands, after I have folded and put away the last load of socks and shirts, after I have finally decided it is ok to wash my face and change into flannel pajamas, I fall silently into the overstuffed chair which has been placed just right and turn off the lights, I am offered a cup of english tea (an excellent fireside companion) by my spouse who occasionally looks at me with a very pleased look in his eyes and says softly, "I did good this time, didnt I ?" Happy Winter!

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