reduce

so i either packed or gave away most of my clothes in the process of getting the house ready to sell and i discovered some really cool consequences of that today. I noticed a couple of days ago that i was just about of underpants and socks. i ran completely out of white socks and not quite out of work socks.. and all my white under shirts are dirty.. anyway.. i am leaving for spokane tomorrow so i had to pack, which means i had to do laundry, and so i had to dig around in the dirty clothes pile (which is not big by our standards of a big urgent pile of laundry)...

so anyway.. i dug around and found my clothes and discovered that i had only about two medium loads of clothes to wash in order to have my underclothes refreshed completely plus two pairs of work pants and a couple of work shirts.. so what's so cool about it is now we won't have all the backed up laundry pile that we used to and i'll be able to tell it's time to do laundry because i'm out of clothes by the end of the week. if it were work i'd say i reduced my work in process or WIP, and i would mention that it reduces the lead time between when i run out of clothes (which is good because if i don't run out of clothes i don't do laundry).. anyway.. it's good. i can put two medium loads of laundry away.. way more laundry would be a pain to put away.. anyway.. less stuff is good. i'm goin gto remember this when we move.

oopdate

so today is sunday. and i'm thinking very hard about going to sleep early because i'm having trouble keeping my eyes open. Work is going to be kind of stressful tomorrow morning, but perhaps the rest of the week will be not so bad. I don't know. I'm supposed to facilitate a workshop about something i know very little. I should try to see it as an opportunity to do something out of the ordinary, but for some reason i think this thing will be a mess. mostly because of the other people involved.

Then after work I'm meeting some awesome people who encouraged me to go to see Sarah Vowell at Elliot Bay Bookstore.. we'll see. i suspect that will be awesome.. i like when SV has books out. they're generally really fun AND informative. plus she played the baritone in school. that's awesome.

I think i will stay awake for a little bit longer.. oh.. i should eat some icemacream.
but just a little. ok...

Indictment for the unregulated free market

this financial mess is very very tired. and i would like for the ones who sold us on deregulation to pay a steep price for getting it wrong. about the price they just asked congress for. this wouldn't have been the problem it was if we weren't under such a crushing amount of debt, every one of us. the idea that you should finance college, that you should finance your homes, and cars, that businesses should borrow money to pay their staff? what's that? you say; financing education helps the lower classes rise to the upper classes.. no, it doesn't. it entraps those who needed to borrow for college in debt slavery. they owe their carreer to sallie mae, and they have to pay for years and years.. only because college costs too much.. way too much... houses now? ok, so 40 years ago houses cost about 2 years salary for the average person. that meant that you could actually save up a significant amount to pay for your house.... you might not have more than a few thousand dollars financed and it wouldn't require 30 years to pay off.. now houses are 7 or more times the average salary, and it's inconceivable to spend the amount of time saving you would need.... when did that become normal? why did that become normal? because they want to keep the middle class where it is. tempt us with a comfortable consumeristic life and we'll keep paying into the system... this system is slavery. so what is the answer? live without debt? i don't know... none of these past few weeks would have happened if we actually had the money we think we have.... i say hamilton was wrong.. you don't want the govenrnment to owe everyone money for it's entire existence. an insolvent bank would be shut down, why not an insolvent government?