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I used to disdain the tasks that kept life running smoothly--taxes, exercise, shopping for anything that wasn't books. I preferred to live in my head. I used to want to pretend I didn't even have a body. Since then I've discovered the joy of productivity and mastering new activities, and since life maintenance tasks have a place in that world, I have made a kind of peace with them. I still dread and procrastinate on some of them, but I no longer wish they would all just go away.


I could do without the real world.  I am essentially a lazy person.  And besides, the world of ideas is so much more fun.  Unfortunately, in order to keep living and to do it conveniently, you have to expend a certain amount of energy. It probably takes less in the US than in a primitive, tribal society, but still it takes some.  So here I will share with you some of the things I’ve found that have made my life a little easier to maintain.  Because we all have better things to do.
But they do still complicate life and make it more annoying if you're not interested in them for their own sake. Fortunately there are many people who enjoy the job of wrapping up a messy task and handing you the package so all you have to do is add water and toss it in the microwave. I like doing a bit of that myself. So in the Life Maintenance category I will share with you some of the things I’ve found or put together that have made my life a little easier to maintain.


Of course, many people make their living out of the things on this page.  They actually enjoy doing things like managing finances or selling clothes or designing exercise plans.  I consider such things to be necessary evils, and I take great pleasure in marginalizing these people’s whole careers.  I figure if they’re going to enjoy making my life more complicated, I might as well retaliate by denigrating their chosen occupations.
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This page will be dedicated to the good people who make these necessary evils more invisible.  These people clean up the mess created by the overenthusiastic people of the last paragraph so that I don’t have to deal with it.  The less I have to think about, say, buying a car, the better.  So if someone tells me exactly what I need to know to do that, they have just improved the world by holding back the evil that desires to encroach upon my life.  And if no one is doing that, I’ll just have to do it myself and save both myself and other people time in the future.  Hence you’ll find a few of my own stress-saving creations here too.
 
When my mom told me to get my head out of the clouds when I was growing up, I don’t think she quite meant this …

Latest revision as of 04:40, 1 June 2014

I used to disdain the tasks that kept life running smoothly--taxes, exercise, shopping for anything that wasn't books. I preferred to live in my head. I used to want to pretend I didn't even have a body. Since then I've discovered the joy of productivity and mastering new activities, and since life maintenance tasks have a place in that world, I have made a kind of peace with them. I still dread and procrastinate on some of them, but I no longer wish they would all just go away.

But they do still complicate life and make it more annoying if you're not interested in them for their own sake. Fortunately there are many people who enjoy the job of wrapping up a messy task and handing you the package so all you have to do is add water and toss it in the microwave. I like doing a bit of that myself. So in the Life Maintenance category I will share with you some of the things I’ve found or put together that have made my life a little easier to maintain.

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