Challenging norms

I sit here looking at my dresser with three drawers poking out just a bit wondering what is the point of that thing. I haven't opened the drawers in so long. Depression makes you not want to do things and putting laundry away is one of thing I've been slow at. After simply having had laundry in a big basket for so long I question why I spend time putting it in a dresser or if I would even have one if there wasn't already one here. Am I just afraid to question the norms I grew up in? Having a basket of mixed clothing seems to work well for me. I can tell at a glance what I have to work with and it's easy to spot a few neat combinations. Downside being that it is wrinkled but that's nothing that's bothered me before.

Whoo Splat!

Off time now and I hardly know what to do. It feels like I'm crashing. Everything just wants to stop. The stark contrast between my working and non-working days. 39 days so far this year. I'll guess about a fifth of the year down.
My work takes an incredible amount out of me.

Minimum wage update

Minimum wage has changed from $8.40hr, to $8.80/hr, or at least it's due to this year. I guess that means I'm now looking at $352/week or $18304/year as a target. When I have a better grasp of living expenses, I'd like to switch to a living expenses as a percentage of net worth target. It seems more meaningful when yield spreads are wild for different assets.

If life were a checklist...

I'm just starting to realize that I've done a lot of neat stuff in my life so far:

1. seen the curviture of the earth
2. seen a real nuclear reactor
3. planted a forest
4. fought of forest fire
5. operated a wind tunnel
6. worked on a full scale tractor-trailer wind tunnel test
7. worked on what'll hopefully get the title of the world's largest optical telescope
8. been head of a corporation
   
9. visited the forest moon of Endor filming location
10. been stabbed
11. gone a day without food
12. been inside a trash compactor
13. experienced zero gravity
    

I'm sure we've all had our own little adventures, some a little more adventurous than others.

I guess before I say more, 35 days down as I go back for another week of work. I don't know what I hate more, the haphazard records of the company that was dropped on me or the dull monotony and industrial conditions of the company I work for. Anyway, I really want to get away from things and just do something big, wild and outrageous. The more I learn about seafaring, the more it feels like I've barely scratched the surface on what there is to know before one sets out on the ocean, though someone suggested a Calgary to New Orleans river trip. I do want to be in motion for a while. Something about changing scenery helps make things feel like they're going somewhere.
Oh yes, the monitor I picked up happened to be a dud, there's a strange buzzing noise and oddly enough it'll work with my laptop but won't do anything with my desktop.
Hmm, other news. I made a good call last week in letting my money stay put till next week. Bought at a much reduced price, however towards the end of the day the price sank further. Question of the moment is what do I do if the price goes back up again? Do I take the chance and sell hoping to buy again at a lower price? Then there's all the other questions of what next. I suppose I'll have to cross that bridge later when I see how things change over the next while.
I still feel very unsettled and want to ramble, but I don't know what more to say.

A need for simplicity

I cracked while trying to reconstruct the books for 2008. There are way too many missing documents and there's even more recent ones that I can't find. After this, I just want to settle down and clear things out. Things should be simple and straight forward. Searching around everywhere for something every now and then sucks.

Daylight Savings Time

Personally, the idea of daylight savings time puzzles me. The idea of starting the day earlier to save energy/money, is a puzzling concept to me. If it really made sense, people would just do so. Unfortunately, if you're the first, you incur losses associated with having different office hours. So the state steps in. In a free economy people can't tell you when to open and close your business but the power to decide what time it is rests with the government and they choose to exercise it. So, does daylight savings actually save energy? I don't think it would have been extended if it didn't.
So, question now is what is this a symptom of? Too much inertia in the system to operate efficiently? I don't know.