Right,
so it's an end of the year around again. I am thinking - or at least trying to think it an ordinary day, what with the sun rising and setting just like any other day, but it' s a mite bit hard - c'mon, year 2013? It happens only once every hundred years - and I mean the last two cyphers: 0013, 0113, 1213 and so on. Excuse the numbers, they are random, so there is no panic needed just why did I chose'em.
I should have been doing an inventory just what went right and wrong in this year, and if I did do my last year's resolutions and make a new ones. On the subject of resolutions - some I did manage to do, most of 'em didn't - but I did learn some good things through the year. So, to summarize 'em here:
1) Technology Can Be Evil - Proved by malfunctioning laptop, babylon toolbars, SweetIM and Wake-up clocks. Former three, I could deal with. Last one, is a necessary evil I learned to abhor, use and watch out for.
2) Heatwave Means Waterworks On The Field. Not literary, but driving at least 21 gallons of water to the field, returning back to the stream, filling the 'barrow again and repeat the process numerous times, does. I've never hated the beanstalks as much as I did right then. Well, except when I had to lug stakes for'em down on the field, but that's another story.
3)The Importance of Being Earnest - no, that didn't sound right. Correct one, The Importance of Weeding In Time. Weed 'em out right. Weed 'em out often. And weed'em out again. If you think you weed'em out once and you are done with it, you are sorely mistaken, boyo. Back to the green hell - ahem, weeding patch.
4) Heave Ho! You don't need the discus to play an Olympian - a thick slabs of firewood needed to be chucked off the cart are just as good. However, there are two tips. Wear working gloves, and Watch Where You Aim!
5) OO-Rah! Tilling the roof can be faster if you have more hands at... well, hand, but there still can be bottlenecks if you are too fast with getting the tiles up. And really, next time, do please wear a helmet. Even if you are lucky enough not to be hit with... well, anything. Safety first.
6) Even An Ignorant Person Can Find An Edible Mushroom. Without stopping on it first. Although, that could also be filed under a Beginner's Luck... or Advanced's Bribe. Still don't know which one it was, but personally I think it was the latter.
7) Playing A Mole Is Just As Well - When there is something to be dug in, dug out or just plainly needed to be digged through, you are the the unfortunate on-duty person that is saddled with doing it, no matter the availability of other persons present.
8) Duplicate, Triplicate And Pray. When writing thesis, you better do your work once and multiply it as if it's of a life or death importance - which it is, because if an important document you just finished doing kicks the bucket, you can just about die because of exhaustion, apoplexy or mortification because you didn't save a copy.
9) It's Elementary, Watson. Meaning, Logistics, Gravitation and Topography can literally do a difference between setting a ladder this or that way - and saving you a sprained back or arm. Sadly, it won't save you from apples falling on your skull, no matter how you wish they could. (Ouch!) So.... Next time, helmet up!
10) Google Plays Devil's Advocate. Seriously. There were the days, when I acutely and intimately got to know just what Too Much Info meant.
11) Your Room Is Not A Sauna - Really. Even if you can miraculously lift the temperature up to 86 Fahrenheit without having to lit the fire or... anything, really, don't. Just, don't. And do remember to air it sometime, some cold won't kill you.
12) Who Needs Plaza If You Have A Roof? It's tilted, it's warm it's near and the only thing you have to do is to take care you don't fall off of it when you snooze on it. Yes, I have kitten tendencies. /Shameless admittance/
13) Microwave Is A Tough Business. Also managed to learn how the darned thing works. Just, for all that's holy, never put the cosmetic wax it. The results, while pretty from artistic view, are a murder to clean. And also, somehow managed to destroy the wax, while I was at it. Whoops? Well, I never claimed to be good at practical aspect of Chemistry, if it didn't involve cooking, anyway....
So, thirteen golden nuggets of conventional wisdom, unearthed from my memories.
As for next year, I hope it will be full of humor, health, and success, be that on personal or public side. And also, more plotdragons being finished and updated!
Happy (soon to be) New Year 2013 to y'all,
Eirenei
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