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busses | |
September 02nd, 2019 | |
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I never spent much time on busses growing up. We were a car family | |
in the suburbs. I either rode my bike places or we drove a car. | |
Nothing was accessible by foot, and busses didnt run close by. | |
Upon moving to Reykjavík we decided to go without a car for the | |
first year to save money and get to know the area more intimately. | |
It forces me to walk place to place, which is exercise I need, and | |
it slows the pace of life. | |
Today I wanted to buy new 3D filament. I've only found one store | |
that sells it so far, and it took me almost two hours to get there | |
and make the purchase with all the transfers. A single errand is | |
a day's outing. | |
Even now as I'm on the bus home I feel a strange reaction from | |
completing a simple task. It reminds me of the pleasures of the | |
Slow Internet. | |
My wife went grocery shopping this morning. She walked the 2 km | |
into town (down a big hill and up another) then shopped and rode | |
the bus home. She accomplished something more significant than it | |
would have been by car. | |
This is all of mind due to the convergence of solderpunk's | |
ROOPHLOCH and kensanata's thread on creating, or rather the notion | |
of being productive. It seems to me that the method contributes so | |
much to the worth that I'm not sure end products are of much use in | |
determining quality of time spent. | |
Another case in point, sewing. I routinely did the sewing in our | |
last home by machine. It gave satisfaction for creation, but since | |
moving all my needle work has been by hand. It took me an hour to | |
make finger puppets for my son, but the satisfaction scaled more | |
rapidly than the increased effort. Some of that may be novelty, but | |
the same could be said for the machine. | |
Working manually by choice gives strange fruit. |