THE BACKUP PLAN

The electric Lawn Hog lawn mower died today, which meant that the manual Classic lawn mower was allowed to leave the shed and go to work.

The cooking of dinner also proved to be somewhat of a challenge today.

It was a day of backup plans. Fortunately, no Plan C was ever necessary.

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Elements of the backup plans and/or other backup plans:

Human powered and mechanical rather than fossil fuel powered and electrical.

Ditalina pasta rather than rice.

Mission of Burma (1982) and Hüsker Dü (1987) rather than Jonas Brothers (2008) and Justin Bieber (2010). (Okay, that one is unfair, in that, none of the JBs was ever a Plan A!)

Reading rather than viewing (television, cinema).

Tangible, physical book rather than electronic book.

Biking rather than driving.

Walking rather than biking.

Worrying about today, this moment, rather than worrying about a potentially-never-arriving, dystopic, apocalyptic future.

Comfortable rather than prim and proper.

Chuck Taylor All-Stars rather than most other shoes.

Microbrew rather than macrobrew.

Imperial IPA rather than IPA.

For that matter, Imperial ——— rather than ———.

Plain rather than peanut.

Top hat rather than top kill.