I am not one to judge personal habits. As faithful readers know, I have a certain commitment to brushing my teeth. Given a choice between a toothbrush and almost anything else, I'm choosing the toothbrush.
Some might say it's an obsessive thing with me. Okay. If you went through 7th grade entirely unable to brush your teeth, you'd be scrubbing and spitting right along side me! And you'd join me in saying, "Nurse your neuroses first!"
After all, neuroses are a giant distraction, even when survival of the species is in the balance.
And so, deeply felt kudos to the clever Inner Neanderthal reader who is prepared to clip his toenails from here to eternity!
That's right! When taking the Inner Neanderthal What to Pack in the Event of an Ice Age survey, one faithful reader has selected from among all the possibilities out there, a knife. Actually, many readers have prioritized a knife. But when this particular reader answered the question, "Why would you prioritize the item you selected?" he said: "Then I can always keep my toenails clipped."
Clearly, we Inner Neanderthals will be a well groomed lot as we transition to an entirely new and different climate. According to the survey we will collectively have a toothbrush, flush toilets, tampons and clipped toenails!
Personally, I think this is good news.
We've already proved that we're a smart and responsible crowd. We are helping to save the environment, but we know that even if we all quit our carbon hogging today the climate will still continue to change until the greenhouse gases we've already produced break down and disappear. So we're thinking about tomorrow as well. Contmeplating how we take the best of what humanity has created and learned and carry it into an uncertain future.
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Here are some personal habits that I strive to maintain. They would not be relevant in a critical time but they are helpful now. I try to be outside at least 30 minutes a day. I try to get 8 hours of sleep (or at least recline for 8 hours) a night. I try to be off the computer by 8 pm so that I actually have life outside the web. I do at least 15 minutes of exercise a day. That is the extent of my discipline. Critical times would alleviate the need for most of these exercises. If I were chopping wood and hunting, I wouldn't need to worry about getting daylight or exercise.
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