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?
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
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