Life Maintenance Introduction

Version 1.0, 5-1-05

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.

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.

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 …