Canute against the tide

[sanpaku_backup]

I get to celebrate upgrading to a paid account with some new userpics. More to come.

So this means that I'm in LJ for good. But I also have to change. A look at this much-discussed box from the attic, filled with my collected pearls since 1988, confirms that yes, I have always been a pretty damn good writer, and yes, I have been doing the same veddy clever, self-deprecating, vaguely maudlin shtick all this time. All these LiveJournal posts over the last few months? With incredible prescience, I seem to have written them fifteen years ago. The man is nothing if not consistent. I have to find a new racket.

So I need some help in choosing how to mark the latest phase of my twenty-year-long midlife crisis my impending birthday, and LiveJournal is here to help:

[Poll #1251831]

But really: life is better.

Comments

[cellio]

World conquest: if you're going to have a midlife crisis, do it right. :-)

Srsly!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see any reason to limit yourself to just one...

you can run but you can't hide

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

You're not exempt from voting, punk.

[(Anonymous)]

What does Canute mean? I bought my car off a kid named "Canuto".

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great#Ruler_of_the_waves

[solipsiae.livejournal.com]

I'm a firm believer in diet + exercise = overall improvement in all arenas of life. Happier body leads to happier brain.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Hm, I have a big scoop of guacamole here that disagrees with your equation. But you know, I have been that way for too long. The real problem is that, practically speaking, my family would accommodate me having a drug habit more easily than me having an exercise regimen.

[solipsiae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the easy answer here is to make it a family-wide change (everyone eats healthier & does at least one sport regularly) but we all know how easy that is to put into action.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

For older kids, no question. Mine are really little still. So it's mostly a matter of my wife juggling them for an hour or so while I do said exercise in addition to the hours she's juggling them for my job etc. My eating's actually not that bad at present.

[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

Here's the rebuttal this thread is BEGGING for:

It will be so much easier for her to take care of them ALL THE TIME after you make your untimely exit from heart disease.


Forty minutes, every other day.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

It's a good argument. After the first coronary, it might even carry the day.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well I changed my answer to "drugs"

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :-)

Great userpic, btw.