...but i promised you all a real update, and i've randomly decided to write it now. i guess the main question on everyone's minds is: what have i been doing for the near month since i last wrote a real post. ( the short answer is )

or something like that.  i head back home tomorrow (today) night (euw, red-eye), so i figured i should write one last update from Seattle.  things have been going pretty much the same since i last wrote.  i got a few hundred more words written in my thesis, but that was it.  so i still suck, and i'm going to have to work really, really hard for the ( Read more... )

not spending much time on the internet.  now i must try and remember what has happened for the last few days.  done some more work in the backyard.  in fact, we've used over two pallettes of retaining wall bricks.  the well is starting to look pretty nice.  it was too hot to work on Wednesday, so we went to a big nursury near here and bought plants ( Read more... )

and stiff and sore. yard work is evil that way. Dad and i spent most of the day yesterday prying railroad ties out of the ground. okay, he did most of the lever work while i slid in wedges, but i did do some digging around posts and had a fun session whacking a post with a mini-sledge. good for aggressions, bad for weak shoulders. *l* i also ( Read more... )