Sunday, July 18, 2004

My two good deeds

I'd like to say I do a good deed every day.  Sometimes I don't get the opportunity to, though the right thing to do is probably to seek them out.  Anyway, I might not get the chance today with my trip to NYC, but to make up for it I did two good deeds yesterday, so on average that works:
  • On noticing that our home computer was running very slowly while online, with popups regularly, um, popping up, I downloaded and installed Lavasoft's Ad-Aware program.  I think the most recognized malicious objects a run has ever detected for me has been like eighty-something.  The computer here had 1969.  I can attest, the Internet has been running much smoother.  I did a good thing.
  • The push-out window in the bathroom does not want to seem to close.  It causes the house to heat in the winter and cool air in the summer (well, definitely cool air in the summer, I'm not sure that it had been broken in the winter).  So, I went outside, braved wild spiders in getting the ladder (which involved stuntman-like maneuvers), and managed to position the ladder in the difficult space between our deck and bathroom window.  I then plopped myself off the deck into the former garden there (now a barren plot of terrain) and began the grueling climb to the window.  On reaching the ladders end and fortunately the window, I determined that the window was broken and couldn't be pushed in.  Although I didn't fix the window, I did try, and the thought should count.
OK, the window is at least half a good deed.  I suppose I should try and do at least half a good deed today to make up for it.  I fortunately have many examples of people only halfheartedly doing good deeds (and work in general in today's society) so the effort should be easy to duplicate.

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