Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: 4-30-25 Wed/Log

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

4-30-25 Wed/Log

W: 314.8 BS: 96

~~Taxi 1~~
~~Taxi 2~~
Taxi 3
Dishes
Laundry
Vacuum
Mower
~~Water garden~~
~~Chicken soup~~
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Last nights dinner. Baked chicken curry dip with hot & fresh garlic naan.

I'm not a curry fan, but herself dotes on it so I have a duty. She ate an... uncomfortable... amount of it.

I thought about doing an irrigation system. Tubes, valves, whatnot. To paraphrase a former president, "Come on man! That's malarkey!" I'm a retired guy. I have time to stand there holding a hose while I smoke my cigar. Hell, I have way more time than I do money.

So, it's the hose for me. Except when I want to soak it nice and slow for 20 minutes at a time. That's when I grab my favorite gardening tool... the spring clamp. Yes, that $2 yellow clampy thing holding the hose to the trellis.

It lets me position the hose (set to mist) in just about any position or direction. I can relax on the porch with coffee, go cook something, learn some sexy new dance moves... whatev. Meanwhile the garden is getting it's daily aqua dose.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"