Earning my beer, or, Do it right the first time.

I took the day off work today. This blogathon demands my full attention.

OK, that’s not exactly what I did today – today I reaped the inevitable, yet certainly delay-able, consequences of not doing things right the first time. What things?

• Property taxes.
• Parking tickets.
• Lost library books.
• Dishwasing.

These are things that, if done right the first time, should not come back to haunt you. And you should get to take your Monday off just to read and get a pedicure. But I didn’t, so I didn’t, and instead I spent the day correcting these mistakes.

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An Occasional Design Junkie Gets a Laugh

via ApartmentTherapy.com, a blog of images from Dwell magazine, recaptioned with the lonely unspoken angst of those who live in these modernist masterpieces, Unhappy Hipsters.

It became their routine. And so the evenings stretched out before him: still, gray, and gravel-strewn.

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