Housework

I have made an objective decision.
There are many many many things I love about life. They make me amazingly happy everyday,, and there are just two things that might be onsidered a blight to mundane but wsome daily human existance:
1. Housework, but really just washing dishes
2. Grading. Who likes grading? NO ONE.
I think every other tedious and daily thing about life. I think some of the most fascinatingly amazing things happen when nothing is going on. It is the time when you can really get to know people and yourself. This is big coming from an adventure junkie. Of course I still want to kayak own rivers, head up to everest base camp, ride a camel in the sahara, and ride a horse up to see some Ecuadorian volcaoes, but in between I think I can really enjoy the details.
I'm trying to let the world adn people get to me less and less. We're just people, and it is just the world. Don't we blow everythign too far out of proportion. I know it is cheezy but global warming is consuming the planet, there are over 100,000 child soldiers in Africa, the tensions between the middle east and the west are strady or increasing, civil wars continue all over the world, and people are using religion to push each other apart instead of bringing each other together just as much today as 2000 yars ago.... so is the broken coffee pot, the insensitive phrase, the small misunderstanding between ways of doign things really worth my stress level rising and my heart going to my head?
My dad apparently had a mild stroke last week. Granted my father is a walking combination of smoking, stress, and age. Yet, we really do think that they'll live forever no matter what...
He's fine... as logn as he lives a more regimented life...
Yet, unnecessary stress is such a huge part of his life, and, as far as I am convinced, of recent medical events. I don't like that path.

This picture I've put up before, but it is the only one I have of the rental units...

My heart is with you dad... every day, even if I can't be there. It always has been. Despite anything.