Happy go-lucky, yes, that's the way I read you - best way to be.
I used to use 168 as a "teaching tool", if you will. Friends would complain that they never had time to do things - learn to play the saxophone, learn another language, plant a garden, etc.
Well, we all bitch about having to work 40 long hours, so that leaves us 128 hours. We rarely sleep the suggested 8 hours a night, but say we do. That leaves us 72 hours - 128 less 56.
Set aside 4 hours per day (a very conservative number) for meals, laundry, shopping, errands, chores - the maintenance of life. So, now we're down to 44 hours - 72 less 28.
Divide 44 hours by 7 days, and that leaves 6 hours and 15 minutes per day to learn piano, another language, map out a family tree, etc.
Our time is fixed, just like our incomes - it's all about budgets and allocations - how we choose to spend each.
Only fixed in this incarnation. "Live with urgency"? Seems anxiety-producing - no need to hurry. We have forever.
A friend, a professional surfer, grew up a block away, now she lives in Oz with her husband and little boy. In an interview, she said a certain day surfing was "expansive" - I knew immediately what she meant.
The reporter questioned her. She meant, no "back end", meaning no time commitment or obligations later in that day. It's a feeling of freedom - "expansive".
Give me expansive days, I'd rather not live with urgency. Or let me rephrase that, get your obligations out of the way with urgency, so the rest of your day can be expansive. The cafe nights will be expansive.
I noticed that this site, maybe compounded by my slow/spotty networks, don't always take my edits or load them properly, to say nothing about my possible copy-paste errors.
Anyway, good comment and it makes sense. Unsure about the cafe, though, as it is a kind of container. We would get tired of it and want to go surfing, metaphorically speaking. It would become a glorified ball and chain like our computers here. And then maybe we'd get tired of the surfing or whatever and maybe want to surf the net.
I knew of a couple who owned a resto down south in a small town here-- one of my faves in town (that it appears the new owners kind of ruined and last I looked were trying to sell the place)-- who opened it only for about 6 months a year and the rest of the year, they went somewhere on vacation.
The 'problem' is, if I owned it the way they did, I'd have to hire and that enters into wage slavery. I suppose it could be co-owned by everyone, but I'm unsure then if the 6 month vacation would be feasible. Insofar as life is short, it can be hard and long to back out of some commitments once they're engaged. Maybe 'happy-go-lucky' is one adaptive/responsive strategy to some of that.
I have a new guitar in the closet that has yet to be learned. I bought it sort of out of impulse given that it was on sale by a business that was going out of business. I suppose I could always hang it on the wall for decoration like I see in some of the rooms of some You Tubers (which sound, appropriately perhaps, like some type of potato).
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"tuber
/too═ЮтА▓b╔Щr, tyoo═ЮтА▓-/
noun
A swollen, fleshy, usually underground outgrowth of the stem or rhizome of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise.
A similar outgrowth of a plant root.
A rounded projection or swelling; a tubercle." ~ American Heritage Dictionary
"That's my un-genius you see. Mismanagement of priorities for one."
Are you sure your work takes priority over chatting with folks?
What you see as un-genius or mismanagement, may actually be a display of genius.
Each of us only has 168. Sometimes I ask people, what do you do with your 168? Gets a puzzled look.
What's 168?
I am happy to set aside priorities if circumstances or new opportunities warrant it.
Puzzled? It's late, and I'm dragging you - not nice. We all have 168 hours in a week. 8-)
Do we? I never calculated that. I'm too happy-go-lucky to care I guess, (priorities be damned. ;)
Is it late? Or is it early? It should be getting light out soon...
Ron? Ron! Are you asleep?... Wanna pillow?...
(...unlocks cafe door, brings in bike, locks door, places 'Closed For The Weekend' sign in window, crashes out on other couch...)
Happy go-lucky, yes, that's the way I read you - best way to be.
I used to use 168 as a "teaching tool", if you will. Friends would complain that they never had time to do things - learn to play the saxophone, learn another language, plant a garden, etc.
Well, we all bitch about having to work 40 long hours, so that leaves us 128 hours. We rarely sleep the suggested 8 hours a night, but say we do. That leaves us 72 hours - 128 less 56.
Set aside 4 hours per day (a very conservative number) for meals, laundry, shopping, errands, chores - the maintenance of life. So, now we're down to 44 hours - 72 less 28.
Divide 44 hours by 7 days, and that leaves 6 hours and 15 minutes per day to learn piano, another language, map out a family tree, etc.
Our time is fixed, just like our incomes - it's all about budgets and allocations - how we choose to spend each.
Indeed, life and time are fixed, and 'life is short' as some have lamented.
Only fixed in this incarnation. "Live with urgency"? Seems anxiety-producing - no need to hurry. We have forever.
A friend, a professional surfer, grew up a block away, now she lives in Oz with her husband and little boy. In an interview, she said a certain day surfing was "expansive" - I knew immediately what she meant.
The reporter questioned her. She meant, no "back end", meaning no time commitment or obligations later in that day. It's a feeling of freedom - "expansive".
Give me expansive days, I'd rather not live with urgency. Or let me rephrase that, get your obligations out of the way with urgency, so the rest of your day can be expansive. The cafe nights will be expansive.
~ You Tubers ~
What happened to the rest of my comment? LOL
I noticed that this site, maybe compounded by my slow/spotty networks, don't always take my edits or load them properly, to say nothing about my possible copy-paste errors.
Anyway, good comment and it makes sense. Unsure about the cafe, though, as it is a kind of container. We would get tired of it and want to go surfing, metaphorically speaking. It would become a glorified ball and chain like our computers here. And then maybe we'd get tired of the surfing or whatever and maybe want to surf the net.
I knew of a couple who owned a resto down south in a small town here-- one of my faves in town (that it appears the new owners kind of ruined and last I looked were trying to sell the place)-- who opened it only for about 6 months a year and the rest of the year, they went somewhere on vacation.
The 'problem' is, if I owned it the way they did, I'd have to hire and that enters into wage slavery. I suppose it could be co-owned by everyone, but I'm unsure then if the 6 month vacation would be feasible. Insofar as life is short, it can be hard and long to back out of some commitments once they're engaged. Maybe 'happy-go-lucky' is one adaptive/responsive strategy to some of that.
I have a new guitar in the closet that has yet to be learned. I bought it sort of out of impulse given that it was on sale by a business that was going out of business. I suppose I could always hang it on the wall for decoration like I see in some of the rooms of some You Tubers (which sound, appropriately perhaps, like some type of potato).
___
"tuber
/too═ЮтА▓b╔Щr, tyoo═ЮтА▓-/
noun
A swollen, fleshy, usually underground outgrowth of the stem or rhizome of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise.
A similar outgrowth of a plant root.
A rounded projection or swelling; a tubercle." ~ American Heritage Dictionary