William Pietri on Nostr: I can't fix the big things, but I can do something about the small ones. A few days ...
I can't fix the big things, but I can do something about the small ones.
A few days ago I went to the post office to ship something. I put it in one of the flat rate boxes and went to address it. Of the 6 pen-on-chain doodads they had, only one was left, and that one had no ink. Gah!
So I ordered some of those tethered pens, which are not expensive, and today I went back to quietly install them. I felt vaguely criminal, but I got all 6 installed and nobody noticed.
Making a few thousand people's life slightly better is a small thing with all the chaos in the world today. But it's the thing I could do, and I'm glad of it.
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