I’ve just gone a complete week without writing the ’log because much of my spare time during the week was taken by home-moving activities. The process has just about finished though. With luck, there won’t be many more times when I have to dash back from work to home to make sure that there’s someone there to take delivery of some vital household effect. In fact, the plan calls for just one more such occasion: when a sofa, chairs and bed-frame are due to arrive.
In situations like this, I often wonder just how being fabulously wealthy would make my life easier. The answer in this case is that you’d hire underlings. They’d be on hand when things were delivered. They’d unpack the boxes (ours arrived from Sydney on Monday, after having spent almost two months in Sydney with Customs and Quarantine).
(Though their office-dwellers seemed disorganised, and unable to return calls, I think I should offer Allied Pickfords a bit of a plug. Their packers and unpackers, in the UK and Australia respectively, were very competent. We didn’t have one breakage. The PC wasn’t entirely happy when we first switched it on, but I opened it up, pushed the graphics card back into its slot properly, and all was well.)
To return to buying ease-of-life: it seems that expensive technology can only get you so far. True laziness has to be bought by having people do things in your stead. So there you go, people are the ultimate in sophisticated technology. The AI program will have really done its bit for the world when robotic butlers are a reality.
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