So, it’s mostly over now, but can I tell you how irritated I was to wake up recently to the sound of CONSTRUCTION outside my bedroom window?
Seems that the city decided that the alley behindour house need paving. So for about a week, I was given aflashback to our Coal Harbour apartment. Every day at 8 a.m. the beeping and griding and dust would start.
Our office also is at the back of the house, so it was non-stop, and there was no 20 story separation this time, either. I had cleverly included a clause in our rental agreement that lets us bail if construction noise is interfering with the house. That helped me get through it.
Now our alley is slightly less bumpy to drive through. I don’t think it was worth it, because I could drive down it before and I still can now, so the net change isn’t that significant to warrant so much irritation and disruption, but what do I know?
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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