Since buying the house my schedule has been wild, but I have always been one who would rather be too busy than too idle. When I was a boy, my mother would always say that idle hands do the Devil's work. The reason she said that so often was that whenever I had idle hands, I did the Devil's work. Somewhere in adulthood I learned that the best way for me to resist Old Scratch was to stay busy.
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