Happy and Blue 2

It’s not really known when the first todo list came into existence. But like most things of significant scientific importance without the todo list mankind, and to a lesser extent womankind, and to an even lesser extent dog and cat kind would never have survived.

Of course inanimate objects survive quite well without todo lists but they use complex calculus ( scientific speculation as most science is) to keep themselves organized. And in man, woman, dog and cat kinds defense things like rocks and clouds and such have been around far longer than we have so they have had more time to evolve into higher beings than we have.

But in the animal and bird and plant kingdoms life without the todo list is unimaginable.

The best feature of a well thought out todo list is that once something has been written down we don’t have to actually do it.

It’s on the list. We are going to do it. Someday. Not today of course. And certainly not right away.

If we did it right away we would have nothing to do. It would be done.

To the best of my knowledge no one has created a todone list where we only list things that we have already done. And even if they did having to record what we have done would require a todo list of todone items.

So we are stuck with just a todo list.

It’s an endless cycle really.

We create a todo list and as we do the things on the list they are replaced by new todo things.

I needed to write a post for my site so I added it to my todo list. And when this was done I crossed it off. And then I added a new todo item to write another post for my site.
See, it’s endless…

To quote Shakespeare in his original draft of Hamlet:

To do a list of todo items, or not to do: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous todo items,
Or to take arms against a sea of forgotten stuff,
And by opposing end them? To die: todo ;
No more; and by a todo to say we end..

I suppose if Shakespeare felt so strongly about todo lists it must be necessary for we regular humans as well.

So, today’s question is:
1) What do you have to do today?

It was a dark night as nights often are. At least in Canada where I live. Well, except for the North Pole where it’s often either dark in the day or light at night depending on the season.

But where this story took place it was normal. So the night was dark. Not like in the wacky North Pole where anything goes with light and dark.

Keddie had slept through the dark night. As is often the case.
And now it was morning and the Sun was shining so he woke up. As is often the case as well.

“Well, it’s back to work for me.” said Keddie in a booming voice.

“Shut the @#$%$% up you loud @$$!!$.” said his wife Lettie. Was Lettie kidding or is she really mad..>>

Some people like dogs. Some like cats. But Jubo liked mice. And in a world of pets that people can own mice are as good as any other I suppose.

Jubo trained his mice to drag his slippers over to him when he got home.
And he trained his mice to use a mouse litter box.
And he eventually trained his mice to not eat holes in his walls or eat his sandwiches when he put them down to answer the phone.

But Jubo grew tired of training his mice for simple things. What will Jubo train his mice to do..>>

For the most part this post is just a reminder to myself about what’s going on here because I feel kind of discouraged at the lack of posts.

Ebook

I created an ebook. Creating an ebook was an exercise to find out what’s involved in making one.
I’m glad I did it. I don’t regret a moment of the struggle.

I still have lots to learn about ebooks. Writing is just the first step. Figuring out how to promote them and get them to people is part of it that I don’t understand very well. Anything else..>>

It was a rainy day and so Gary and Ester decided it was a perfect time to head to the surface for holiday. Well, that and their tunnels were flooding something awful. The life of an earthworm is full of digging and flooding and more digging I suppose.

Of course Gary took the lead. Not because men always lead but because he was stronger than Ester. After all he had been using a Wormflex for 3 months now while she had used her spare money to sign up for art lessons.

So Gary had 40 pack abs and big shoulders. And Ester was kind of lumpy but could draw like a banshee..

They were almost at the surface when they heard the footsteps above them. Loud footsteps. Kind of like those of a Robin. A Robin that was looking for worms to eat. Will the Robin eat them..>>