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like busy is a virtue

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.07.25

The job's already gotten busy enough that I'm already pining for the days this Spring when I wasn't working. I'm not one of those people who thinks that being busy is a virtue, but as the family's sole earner, the show must eternally go on.

And on and on it does go. The bike's showing its age. I'm assembling a new drive train for my bike in fits and starts. I have the cassette, I've ordered the chain, and I'll visit a shop to place an order on the chain rings this evening. All in, about $200.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. I've got a decent job, if only on a contract basis.
  2. Busy is certainly better than the alternative, job or not.
  3. The job will pay for the drive train, and the contract nature of the gig means I can claim such things as "vehicle repairs" since I'm using the bike daily to get to the client site.

rand()m quote

The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

—Richard Jeni