The Aerie
I guess I was lucky. The week I spent in Rotterdam was the week that it rained non stop for hundreds of hours in a row. Meanwhile in Rotterdam the weather was fine.
Now that I've returned, the fair weather has followed me - I take full responsibility for it! Today it's supposed to be in the upper Sixties, and the weekend was gorgeous. On Friday I actually rode my bike to work - twelve miles each way, but it was very nice. Unfortunately I can't afford to allocate ten hours a week to commuting or I would bike every day.
Saturday my wife and I attended to a few chores, most notably we emptied all the junk out of the garage that I had moved there during the cleaning of the basement this summer. More remains to be done, but it's so nice to have gotten rid of a lot of that junk. Many ancient and precious children's books and toys are now in the bins at the used-goods store, waiting to entertain another generation of children.
I also trimmed our maple tree out front. When we moved in it was thinner than my wrist, and I nearly killed it when I bumped and gouged its trunk with the lawnmower. Now it's a good foot or more in diameter, with branches that always want to droop down onto my roof and that of my neighbor. However after many years of diligent pruning, it seems to have gotten the message and is growing more UP than OVER. Hopefully autumn is the right time to be pruning branches, because that's when I did it. I used the pole saw that I bought last year to very good effect - it really worked well, possibly because it's so new and sharp.
On Sunday I worked at the church some more, where I'm trying to get the wireless network to reach from one end of the structure to the other. I've got a donated Linksys onto which I've loaded the routing software that allows for linked wireless nodes, but so far no luck getting it to talk to my base station. It can SEE it, but it doesn't want to share bits yet.
Finally got to some biology homework last night, after weeks of being too busy. My whole college coursework thing is really upsetting me, I just can't seem to find the time to work on it, and soon I'm going to have to pay the piper. To say nothing of actually paying my tuition bill, which has been overdue since April. With my summer underemployment I just haven't had the cash, and won't til probably December. Oy.
Well back to work for now. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to write about sometime soon, 'cause goodness knows a weekend chore update is about as boring as it gets!
Posted by Albatross at October 29, 2007 12:15 PM | TrackBack