Don’t put your lips on the fountain of youth

written 8 Feb 2005 over a light lunch

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Laundry. While I have no qualms over the cleaning of cloth, I have come to realize the ridiculousness of the following procedure:

1. Washing clothes in the Laundry Room.
2. Folding clothes and placing them in a dresser, probably located in a Bedroom on a different floor.
3. After wearing the clothes, throwing them back in the Laundry Room.
4. Repeat cycle.

I calculate that I will have wasted 15.5 weeks of my life carrying folded clothes up to my room and placing them in my dresser. As a solution, I have decided to keep the clothes in the laundry room fulltime. That, combined with the 27 weeks of my life I’ve saved by not ironing my clothes, practically tacks on three seasons worth of fun and adventure.

I figure I can muster in a few more of these time savers and then I won’t have to quit smoking, what for all of the 1 or 2 minutes each cigarette is supposed to take off of your life.

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    Example of my reasoning (based on me living 50 more years):

    15 min/day x 7 days/wk x 52 wks/year x 50 years = 273000 minutes
    273000 min / 60 min/hr / 24 hrs/day / 7 days/wk = 27 weeks    Also, the tidbit about 1 or 2 minutes off of your life per cigarette is only from my recollection, no solid fact there. But do you actually care?

    - ClickNathan | 10:50am 8 Feb 05
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    all i read was your title but i wanted to comment real quick on it before i read it as it probably won’t concern what i wanted to say and i’d probably end up forming a new comment and forget this which i thought of a couple of days ago:

    can you believe that just a little while ago a guy was actually searching for the fountain of youth? do we really change so quickly? what is going to happen soon that will drastically change our general beliefs? or was it just that people without merit were given fleets back then? like, just because of who they were. and no one could challenge them, even with reason.

    i mean, the fountain of youth! haha.

    but what if it does exist?

    - chad was marco | 01:01pm 8 Feb 05
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    maybe the fountain of youth is always with you unless you start looking.

    todd shutty died yesterday. did you know him. is that how you spell his name.

    are you going to put a dresser in your laundry room or leave all clothes in baskets

    - chad was marco | 01:07pm 8 Feb 05
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    all clothes are now left in baskets, sorted (sorting takes time but in the end it takes more time to dig through a big pile) into:

    socks/underoos/white t-shirts
    workworthy shirts
    other shirts
    pants
    comfortable clothes/miscellaneous

    - ClickNathan | 01:16pm 8 Feb 05
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    and yes…that is funny about how someone was actually searching for the thing…I don’t know though…maybe they thought of it like we think of something like cloning…we can’t do it yet, but we’re certain it can be done. Maybe future alien lifeforms will laugh at us.

    Actually, no, I change my mind…people were just really stupid back then. They didn’t even know the world was round. Maybe I wouldn’t either if I lived back then, but just because I have acquired knowledge now doesn’t mean I can’t laugh at the primitive fools of yesteryear.

    How did someone like Socrates exist before they even knew about gravity? Philosophy/science should be somewhat developing on the same level, wouldn’t you think? Or did the Greeks know about the round world, gravity, the planets but then somehow it was all forgotten?

    And from 1492, when they have no idea that the world is round, to only the early 1500s (when Leonardo was alive), what progress was made, scientifically.

    - ClickNathan | 01:19pm 8 Feb 05
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    oh yeah, and funniest comment as of late:

    “but what if it does exist?”

    Hopefully you weren’t being serious. If you were, that would be cool as well. But I know you weren’t.

    were you?

    - ClickNathan | 01:20pm 8 Feb 05
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    for lack of originality but for clarity and hilarity should i then respond:

    funniest comment as of late: “were you?”

    - chad was marco | 02:38pm 8 Feb 05
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    To me it just seems like you’re lazy.
    I mean, how hard is it to walk up and down the stairs?
    You should just think of it as your daily exercise.
    Maybe you could whistle while you work, and make it
    fun. Can laundry can be fun…try it and laugh while doing so.

    - Anonymous | 03:16pm 8 Feb 05
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    She’s got a point there…

    - olivia | 04:16pm 8 Feb 05
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    hmmm…to Chad - right on, brother-man…that’s what I was looking for. Now we’re best buds 4-evah!

    And no, Anonymous, I’m not lazy, really…I mean, when the streets haven’t disappeared under five feet of snow, you’ll find me riding my bike to work, an uphill battle in the morning, 10 miles.

    And with no shower or deodorant afterwards, yet I still smell fresh as a silver bell in the lilly patch.

    But thanks for your input! I’d simply rather get my exercize whilest havin’ a laugh doing something I enjoy, not whittling away at the anti-idiosyncratic nature of modern civilized methodology.

    kaput.

    - ClickNathan | 04:18pm 8 Feb 05
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    Hehe… I’d love to see you whistling while carrying the laundry around. That would crack me up.

    - olivia | 04:34pm 8 Feb 05
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    what should I be whistling then, people?

    A dwarfish working song? How about some Guns N’ Roses? Ooh, you know what…let’s dress me up like a dwarven Axl Rose and have me galavant around with an organ-grinding monkey while I waste away my life with menial chores.

    And as for you, Miss Wakame, I think you’ve been posting to my site anonymously just to get a rise out of me…

    *tsk*tsk*

    - ClickNathan | 04:56pm 8 Feb 05
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    unlucky comment 13

    yeah, assuming an anonymous is a ’she’ is a bit fishy and sexist i might add. personally i thought it was shawn. thich nhat hanh would tell you that if you really enjoyed the walk to get and replace your laundry you would enjoy wearing your clothes even more

    - chad was marco | 06:56pm 8 Feb 05
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    I used ’she’ for three reasons:

    1. Only a girl would write something like that. Think about it.
    2. It might be the girl who declared her love for you, anonymously, the other day, unless that was a guy in which case we should point fingers
    3. I was fishing to see if anonymous would come out and defend his sexuality if in fact she is a he.

    Then again, it could be me… just for a laugh ;}

    - olivia | 07:43pm 8 Feb 05
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    I was thinking that this morning, Chad - “How would Olivia know it was a girl?”

    Now, in retrospect, I assumed it was a woman as well, upon first reading it.

    Perhaps because I see all “anonymous” posts now as that person who’s wrote “love you” and the thing about the V-day present. Assuming those are even the same person. Whether they are or aren’t in reality doesn’t actually matter, my believing so fits neatly into my disdain for allowing anonymous comments at all, but my anticipation of regret over what I might miss if I don’t.

    But yeah, it’s probably Shawn all the while.

    - ClickNathan | 08:23am 9 Feb 05
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    HAH! I’M A DUDE - YOU THOUGHT I WAS A GIRL AND I’M A DUDE AND NOW YOU’RE GAY

    - Anonymous | 06:13pm 9 Feb 05
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    You’re just jealous ’cause I’ve been chatting with internet babes all day.

    - ClickNathan | 08:35am 10 Feb 05

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