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Old 04-29-2020, 05:16 PM   #134 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH
I'm not looking forward to wasting 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day in a car again. I've been sleeping better, eating better, running 5 days a week, doing some little workouts.
When I worked for Symantec, the best part of the commute* was climbing the staircase. But up was all left turns and I blew out my left knee. But they paid for the arthroscopy, so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* They gave me a bus pass and a parking permit

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It took a bit to find it; but there it is:
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings — and all the people sleeping in the slums.
Bucky Fuller
https://enq.translatum.gr/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

...has kind of a 'beautiful' contemporary ring to it, doesn't it?
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