Every day activities that I take for granted include - - flicking a switch and seeing the resulting electrical current illuminate the room - turning a screw and watching clean, hot (but not too hot) water come out of a spigot and run down a drain, not to be reused - the fact that I navigate a repetitive series of controlled explosions from one place to another, and that I pay more attention and get more enjoyment out of the wind in my hair than I do the mechanical marvel that is an engine. - Eating chicken from a farm in the midwest, with rice from India, soy sauce from Japan, vegetables from California, and ice cream from Wisconsin (covered in maple syrup from Quebec). I don't know if this was what you were looking for, tng, but that that's where my brain took your question.