Life is good

[Nickscafe]

I’m pretty much all done, minus a decent walkway. The steps are stable. I got the fence done with 3 hours of daylight left. It’s going to be 10F on Thursday. Hopefully I can do something with walkway.

Now I can focus my stress at work lol. I read that if you work more than 40 hours a week it can be bad for your health. Pretty bad study. Didn’t even consider the job. Reg is still alive. So that goes against that study. My work life is much quieter than outside work, so I don’t really agree. I do get depressed if I work over 50 hours a week though.

[Reg]

Reg is still alive.

To my own amazement, yes.

Hot tub looks great. You could paint murals on the walls around it and make it into an outdoor orgy room.

[Nickscafe]

Like a Roman spa?

[MyBigMoon]

Nice work Dan.

[Nickscafe]

Thx Will. I’ll keep posted if anything catastrophic happens.

[AgeofGrace]

I imagine you must be in your housecoat and slippers

Not to mention rollers and a toothpick.

Or perhaps you’re changing into overalls for you morning chores.

I can only confirm I’m changing.

Now I see you out collecting eggs and slicing off a slab of pork belly in the smokehouse,

I see you pounding violently at a table with a fork in one hand and a knife in the other.

Now, you are collecting wood to fire up the stove and shucking off your clodhoppers in the mudroom.

Mud boots. I’m wearing mud boots. I just slopped the pigs.

He wants his coffee NOW but you neglected to clean out the clinkers from the stove yesterday and he’s just gonna have to wait. Dusty doesn’t like to wait.

Nonsense! I don’t know what a clinker is and Dusty would wait until Rapture as long as I don’t make him late.

His grumpy tone stirs something deep inside you and you go to wash between your toes. The water is cold but you are not. A feather from the henhouse drifts from your hair down into the tub.

Ewwww. Toe jam. Nasty!

The fire is lit and the coffee is on. A knock on the door. Who the hell can that be? You slip a little on a piece of pork belly fallen, unnoticed onto the floor. Dusty calls your name. More insistent now. You hesitate, torn between your wifely duty and your neighborly courtesy.

Here ends installment one.

Riveting! I look forward to page two.

[AgeofGrace]

It’s going to be 10F on Thursday. Hopefully I can do something with walkway.

I would wait until Thursday to work on it so you can get a true feel for the weather conditions.

Now I can focus my stress at work lol.

There’s nothing quite like accomplishing a honey-do only to realize it’s time to go back to work.

I read that if you work more than 40 hours a week it can be bad for your health.

Yippie. I’m going to outlive you all.

Pretty bad study. Didn’t even consider the job. Reg is still alive.

It’s not right that you not, at least, consider it. What if I talk to Reg for you.

I do get depressed if I work over 50 hours a week though.

I read a study recently that told if you work 60 or more hours a week you will live twice as long as previously believed. Just sayin’, you need to think of your health.

[MyBigMoon]

Riveting! I look forward to page two.

Maybe. I couldn’t sleep last night and was reading Truman Capote. I guess it sparked my creative writing interest. Of course all characters in my story are purely fictional.

[AgeofGrace]

I guess it sparked my creative writing interest.

No doubt. It was like reading from a children’s book. Really nice work.

Btw, Happy Veterans Day, Will.

[MyBigMoon]

Thank you.

[AgeofGrace]

Welcome

[Reg]

While in Medellín I got addicted to sweet mangoes. I found some here in Vancouver. They’re just as good, too. $9 USD per mango. Seriously. I could buy fruit for a week for $9 USD in Medellín. I already miss Colombia.

[MyBigMoon]

Life is good. Life is good? Really? No. Life is hard, cruel, unsatisfying, a struggle. I have no satisfaction in having lived the life I lived nor any reason not to believe at my age that it is only going to get worse. It already is. I have not lived a good life but it is only apparent in hindsight.

[Reg]

I have no satisfaction in having lived the life I lived

This surprises me. Most of us find satisfaction in our lives in hindsight, even though it was hard and unsatisfying living through the events at the time. Of course most of us edit out the parts that are intolerable and create memory-fictions to aggrandize the good parts, too.

[MyBigMoon]

Of course most of us edit out the parts that are intolerable and create memory-fictions to aggrandize the good parts, too.

That’s the part I can’t do. It’s all too vivid.

[Reg]

Sometimes having a bad memory is a blessing. I really enjoy our phone calls, btw. You’ve seen shit I haven’t come close to.

[MyBigMoon]

I too enjoy the calls Reg and appreciate talking from time to time. Still drinking and starting to feel the literary muse calling.

[Reg]

That’s the part I can’t do. It’s all too vivid.

Funny, I just randomly ran into this article. Won’t help you today but may help others in the future.

If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you? Scientists are...

[Nickscafe]

I was supposed to go to madonna on Saturday. She is touring and her tour has gone horribly. She just cancelled all 3 shows with no makeup dates due to back pain. She had already cancelled Jersey.

It was originally an 830 show, but the start time was moved to 1030. She doesn’t show up until 11, and the doors open at 730 with no opener. Once you enter, you need to place your phone in a lockbox and bring the box to your seat. Once the show is over, the box opens up. She is being sued in vegas for starting after midnight. I’m wondering if this is a fake injury and she is worried about more lawsuits. She seems like a rotten person, so I’m glad we are not going now. Was going with my friends I went to Costa rica with and 1 of them had already bailed before it was cancelled. Felt bad for the workers at the wang theater. They were probably not looking forward to this weekend.

[MyBigMoon]

Madonna is famous for having sex with men who had large penises. Years of that could give you back pain.