The biggest thing to remember, regarding the title, is that there are no endings, only new beginnings. At least, that’s one philosophical view. This marks about 1 week that I’ve had this journal up, and I’ve done okay so far, I think.
I’ve cut back on my Internet usage over the past couple of days, which should help me manage to get things done around the house. On that note, my space is moving to the spare bedroom, and that’s got to get squared away and turned into a sort of dual-purpose office/spare room. My wife wants to get rid of some of the furninture and rearrange things, then have a yard sale in about two weeks; exercises I’m not looking forward to. Her and her mother’s philosophy on yard sales is that if it goes out of the house, it doesn’t come back in. Mine is that you can always put it back for another yard sale, or it could be an item I can live without, but I do use occasionally or could find a use for eventually.
On the plus side, it does mean I have to go through my stuff. Maybe I’ll even get it all organized. Maybe. It isn’t very likely. Perhaps I’ll be able to find all of my laundry, match all my socks, etc… Again, not very likely.
While WikiPedia can be tricky sometimes, there are always good things there… this, for instance. It will probably hurt your brain, but it is helpful to me, at times.
On another note, I am never going to the pool around mid-day without tons of sunblock, and airy, loose, long clothing. That should keep me from being sunburned, unlike right now…
For those I haven’t told, I’m planning on planting a garden next year. Why am I planning now? Because I need to build the beds, get the dirt, start the compost, plan out the beds, enrich the beds, decide if it’s all really worth it, get the seed starter pots set up, get the seeds, start some of the seeds, and on and on and on, and that all takes a few months. I am going to try to borrow a rototiller from someone to break up and make it easier to level the ground under where I want to put things. I’ll probably try to enrich that, too, and then build up 6″ or so 4′x4′ beds. It seems a lot, but I would like to try to do 6 beds, use companion planting, and crop rotation. The single most important plan: crop rotation every year. I also plan on composting as much food and other waste as I can.
Rambling with that: Composting is something important that most people who live in a house can do! There are a lot of web sites out there that can tell you how to get started. I’ll simply say that it will cut down on the amount of waste you send off to the landfill every week, and you’ll be creating something that you can spread on your lawn, use in your flower beds, and mix in with potting soil that will make your plants happy.
And, back to plants and gardening, I plan on doing a variety of plants, including cucumbers, tomatoes, salad greens, peppers, corn, beans, garlic, onions, carrots, and… watermelon! I’ve got some information to go through on how much space each plant needs to decide exactly what I want to do. I may even do some squash and do a Native American bed (corn, beans, and squash). I do plan on getting some Cherokee Purple tomato seeds, as those are (supposedly) what Cherokee grew originally, so they should technically be native species to this area.
| Project | Objective | Status | Projected Completion Date |
| Mail shirt (commission) | *Waiting to hear from buyer* | ∼66% complete | *Waiting to hear from buyer* |
| Job Hunt | Get a Job | Searching | When Found |
| Thor’s Mountain Replacement Site | Create replacement for Thor’s Mountain Web Site | ∼50% passed | 1 OCT 08 |
| Calculus 2 Online Class | Pass Calculus 2 online (HW 411 points total, pass 10 quizzes, pass midterm, pass final) | HW1 33/33 pts, Q1 7/10 | 8 AUG 08 |
Cheers for now.
