Hell No, I'm not doing that!

Not taking that quiz, or even looking at it.

These days I have to escape all that world tension from time to time. In an effort to keep my brain temperature below boil I subscribe to a few newsletters or sites that take my mind off this ongoing shit show produced and directed by the clown ringmaster. My friends know exactly which crazy shit I’m talking about.

So, back to my mellow reading. I subscribe to a newsletter called LIVING SIMPLY. They describe their newsletter this way: Living Simply strives to bring a sense of simplicity and serenity to your at-home life by delivering you the best stories about cutting out, paring down, and parting ways with the things, either physical or non, that are holding you back, whether you realize it or not.

They gather articles from many sources and once in a while one will catch my eye…the one about hoarding hit a little close to home. Yesterday this article title caught my eye. Poked my eye is probably more accurate.

HOW MANY YEARS WILL YOU LIVE, followed by a link to “This Quiz Knows the Answer” . No and hell no, I did not click that link. I don’t even want to see the quiz, let along fill it out to find out the answer. I’m 75 years old, why in the hell would I want to know the answer to that question? At this point 75 years of lifestyle choices have already doomed me. I’d love to scratch out a few more years but I sure as hell don’t need a web quiz to start the countdown for me. My clock is moving along just fine, thank you. Clearly the quiz was designed for people less than 30.

Thankfully the next article was more practical just a simple list of 10 ways to achieve a better quality of sleep. Sometimes that’s easier said than done at my age so I decided to check that out and see if I could get any useful tips. I discovered the tips worked when the dog woke me up two hours later and the light was still on and the phone was laying upside down on my chest. The author could probably have made a shorter list if he had simply made #1 “don’t think about politics before bedtime.