loans made good

the new computer arrived and I am typing this on the new keyboard. still on the old computer as the new guy is all pieces and parts laid out like an autopsy on the kitchen table. I just knew that taking all those loans to pay for my school that I don't even attend would pay off.

new house, new garden, and same old 7 day work week has been biting into the time that I need to devote to my own education - I own my own time obviously and so no complaining here about a new house to make my own, but yeah - making time for school hasn't been easy.

the 3 best things about teaching though right? (June, July & August). 6 more days and all I will do is my own schooling . let the kids fend for themselves all season. I actually hope to get ahead in my schedule so as to fit some more classes in before estimated graduation time, we'll just see how much time everything actually takes though before I go counting any hatching chickens.

I think I need a wrist rest for this new keyboard. I'll make one with those bran husks from the co-op. (That's my second job, a cashier at the local food co-op, more about that later though)

I picked up an old unsold copy of "PermaCulture Magazine," so awesome and inspiring - the articles about doing the things that make actual change that actual people around the world can afford to do. Not just installing a $15,ooo PV array on my roof with a $2000 inverter, no, this shows a solar heater using fresnel lenses to heat vegetable oil to a temp twice that of boiling water and then saving the heated oil in insulated tanks for cooking or turning a sterling engine! I could actually build all of that from the local hardware store and scavenging.

Well, off to bake a carrot cake for my girlfriend's month-late-mother's day gift. She's teaching a yoga class me and my mom are in. She'll probably stay here tonight as the babes is at her dad's. Probly gotta clean the bathroom too then...

ciao,
bk