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May 07, 2023, 03:33 PM
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Member Since: Aug 2013
Posts: 930
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Hi MSaD, continually under the crunch re: yuck chores around the condo. After reading Algorithms to Live By, I now accept that relationships in condos are intractable. This brings 3 puzzles:
1. Keeping motivated. Part of me screams that if this in intractable, why bother?
2. Time. As motivation drops, getting to the needed work requires more willpower. I've been aiming for 3 hrs a day (for a total of about 15) but yesterday I let everything slide and piddled about. It was my release day (the first after 5 days of hard work).
3. Turning off the incessant puzzle solver part of my mind that returns repeatedly to this place and what to do. Ans. do what I need to, be ready to respond to the rogues as legally allowed, and otherwise,
. Now to soothe my unbidden mind into believing that.
So, awoke this morning and doubled my hours, to 6, for today, and credited 1.5 hours for allowing my thinking to sit around in m'head and gain weight (Chekhov idea). So, 4.5 hrs, for everything related to condo.
So far, it's going OK. I'm about 3.5 hours in, and for part of the day I'll be outside scrapping moss off the fence and laying out Peanut Butter & Baking Soda to kill the rats. The baking soda suspends their breathing so that they essentially suffocate in about 24 hours. The PB is to draw them to the fatal mix. We'll see.
Also yesterday, I talked with a neighbor about sharing a haul of wood chips and dealt with some email about the condo.
Yuck stuff, and tomorrow is yet another day. R.
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