Apr 4, 2022·edited Apr 4, 2022Liked by Scott Hines
Having watched big love, the solutions are obvious:
Start your own home improvement store
Get your wife a second husband or talk your wife into a sister wife. Of course you may end up with more than 2 spouses as the complexity might increase with more adults.
Car rides with the kids are where the magic happens. Leaving aside the ones with screaming or crying or …short and long rides remain some of my most treasured memories. And, as they aged, where some of the more meaningful conversations happened. And getting to reach back and squeeze their knees, ankles, anything safely reached…priceless.
1) my deep abiding love of logistics probably relates to the fact that I basically never have to logisticize (our household term for it) for children. The youngest people I regularly have to plan for are 20. That poses its own set of challenges, but they can ethically be allowed to fend for themselves as "adults."
2) one of my favorite answers to the "you can go back in time, you have one bullet" riddle is the person who invented the modern concept of "optimization." I feel like our lives were all at least a tetch less stressful before the military-industrial "lifehack/do this better" complex appeared. The idea that there's someone doing this better than you somewhere is insidious as hell. It may also be my industry, but I deal with so many people, especially my junior employees, who are spun up on needing the "best" tactic to manage their time. I tell them about the tools and methodologies, but I also try really hard to tell them that a) this is progress, not perfection, and b) the only correct time management system is the one you will use comfortably.
A lot of words to say that sometimes the chicken's gonna eat all your corn. Let's just keep the fox from eating the chicken. That's a lot bloodier.
PJ Fleck thanks you for the new rowboat-related material.
I find making a corn and chicken pot pie expedites the transfer process.
Sunday and Wednesday nights calendar discussions for the next week, one work/one home, neither ever work well together.
Having watched big love, the solutions are obvious:
Start your own home improvement store
Get your wife a second husband or talk your wife into a sister wife. Of course you may end up with more than 2 spouses as the complexity might increase with more adults.
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Never mind
And then a scorpion stings the helpful frog and drowns because that’s its nature
[comment typed from a high-backed chair turned away from you in a secret lair]
Car rides with the kids are where the magic happens. Leaving aside the ones with screaming or crying or …short and long rides remain some of my most treasured memories. And, as they aged, where some of the more meaningful conversations happened. And getting to reach back and squeeze their knees, ankles, anything safely reached…priceless.
Take the fox first, let the chicken eat the feed. Seems heavy to lug around anyway.
Two things come to mind when I read this:
1) my deep abiding love of logistics probably relates to the fact that I basically never have to logisticize (our household term for it) for children. The youngest people I regularly have to plan for are 20. That poses its own set of challenges, but they can ethically be allowed to fend for themselves as "adults."
2) one of my favorite answers to the "you can go back in time, you have one bullet" riddle is the person who invented the modern concept of "optimization." I feel like our lives were all at least a tetch less stressful before the military-industrial "lifehack/do this better" complex appeared. The idea that there's someone doing this better than you somewhere is insidious as hell. It may also be my industry, but I deal with so many people, especially my junior employees, who are spun up on needing the "best" tactic to manage their time. I tell them about the tools and methodologies, but I also try really hard to tell them that a) this is progress, not perfection, and b) the only correct time management system is the one you will use comfortably.
A lot of words to say that sometimes the chicken's gonna eat all your corn. Let's just keep the fox from eating the chicken. That's a lot bloodier.
Make the fox swim. He'll follow the chicken.
It’s situations like these where working from home should just be a given for parents until the kids turn 18.
Perfect! Scott, can I share this on Facebook, so many of my friends would very much appreciate this.