xkcd.com - Purity
A year ago, sitting on the commuter train from the suburbs to go to work downtown in the city, I used to listen to some Stars songs from the album “Set Yourself on Fire”. One of the lyrics, “20 years of sleep, before we sleep forever…” inspired me to apply some math and logic to some very obvious parts of my life (and also, more recently, the TV show Numb3rs).
One idea I had was to try to list all of the traits of a romantic partner and then determine how many eligible women live in Toronto… to figure out my odds of encountering someone with whom I could carry on a long-term, monogamous relationship (something I seek; but cannot find). For example, I seek someone who is: female, single, age appropriate, carrying no STIs and otherwise physically well, post-secondary education and/or employed, ideally a Taurus, Virgo, or Aquarian (I didn’t think I was superstitious; but I am a Virgo… and I accidentally discovered a predisposition in my patterns of attraction that seems to reinforce astrological voodoo mumbo-jumbo), wants to get bizzay to the same degree of freakiness and frequency as I want to, and so on. I am still going to have to take a peek at StatsCan to get some numbers to start with. For now, I will leave you with the following:
xkcd.com - fermirotica
How much time do I have to really live?
If I estimate 75 years old to be the limit of my ‘capable’ time on earth… then…
There are 657450 hours in 75 years, based on 356.25 days per year. If I slept for 7 hours a day, I’d sleep for 191756.25 of those hours. That leaves 465693.75 hours. I am already 28 years old, leaving 291834.75 hours to be alive and awake.
Of those remaining hours, I will probably work at least another 32 years until I am 60 at an average of 2000 hours per year for 64000 hours. I am down to 227834.75 hours before I have gotten into my chores, meals, and daily routine.
Let’s estimate 1 hour per day for showering, brushing teeth, flossing, fussing, other bathroom functions, getting dressed, and getting undressed and undoing all of that stuff at night before bed. That will account for 17166.75 of my remaining hours, leaving 210668 hours free.
How about 2 hours a week of laundry and another 2 hours a week of shopping? That’s 4888 hours in my remaining 47 years. Now 205780 hours are left.
Commuting! It is currently a 20 minute walk each way, which I think is a lot less than the average. That makes for 5333 hours in my 32 remaining working years. The tally is at 200446.66 hours to live life.
Making food, eating food, and cleaning up after cooking must surely count for an average 2 hours per day or 34333.5 hours in 47 years, at least.
166113.16 hours are all that I have left… that is 6921 days.. 989 weeks… or just under 19 years to find somebody great, build a relationship, have a family, play with my kids, snap some photographs, have sex, sleep-in, read, watch TV, surf the net, try to have riveting conversations and debates, relax in an armchair with three fingers of Johnny Blue and a fresh Monte Cristo No. 2.
