“Ishtar” is one of the most famous Hollywood fiascos of all time.

One of the best stories. Advance crew lands in country to set up. One thing on the list is an ugly camel. They go to the camel market and the first camel they see is hideous. They decide that they can’t just buy the first camel and keep looking. The next day they decide that the first camel was, in fact, the ugliest camel available. They go back to the market, but the camel isn’t available because it was already eaten.

Moral of the story? Always buy the first camel

My fiancée and I making any decision. I’m always “good enough is good enough” and make terrible un-thought-out decisions because of it. She is always the “perfect option is out there, I just need to find it” and makes no decisions due to choice paralysis because of it.

We can mostly split decsion making between “unimportant and/or urgent” to me with “go/no go” input from her. And “life changing and/or unnecessary” to her with a baseline good enough input from me.

The mental load sorta works out. She’s responsible for few but big decisions with weeks of research, and I take on almost everything else. The argument is usually how important a decision is: is a tree just a tree (my domain), or are we going to remember that specific tree for years to come (I’ll go find a chair).

It’s important to spare the trees’ feelings after cutting them down

I read this text in Ron Swanson’s voice

I feel like the word “fungible” fits in here somehow.

This just makes me glad that I don’t go and have a tree cut down every year. Although I have been thinking of growing my own that I keep alive from year to year, probably grow a few on a rotation and just cut them down when they get too big and replace them with a younger tree. My garden isn’t very big so I can’t really grow a full sized tree, I want to, but it wouldn’t really fit safely.