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Puzzle Minion

Where have I been, with the blogging, you ask? How has my quest to do productive things and not read as much news gone?

This is what I've been doing: 999 pieces of puzzle glory (Damn you, missing piece!). There is something calming in putting together a puzzle. Something about doing a menial task. Set up your rules / strategy (1. Border 2. Group pieces by color group 3. Sub-group those pieces by shape) and then sift and repeat like a broken record.

This is true of most things. My job, for example. Go to a house, measure, take pictures, note anything unusual, run comps, follow a mathematical formula and common sense to arrive at a value, type it into a report, lather, rinse, repeat. And I think that most jobs are probably something similar, setting up a habit, then repeating any steps you have made over and over again. And I actually prefer it when things don't deviate too much from the norm, I actually get irritable if things aren't the same as usual.

Little kids always like to eat the same things. People like to watch "their" shows every week. Church on Sunday. It's comforting that way, really. Easier. I like easy.

posted by Doug 4:59 PM

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