Today was another work day at Total Tree Care of Iowa City.

We worked at the Idylwild development, where the denizens are more idle than wild. "What are we doing?" I asked in the morning.

"Pruning every tree."

Proceeded to do just that, around the cul-de-sac, starting with a swamp white oak I severely elevated. Then a crab apple, then two basswoods ( Read more... )

Visited Joanie at her daycare this morning - during my break from 10:30-12:30. I took her outside the day care and we climbed the hill that leads to the parking lot of a cheap hotel. The daycare is in a hollow of sorts, an excavated flat spot surrounded by a ridge. We walked around it. Joanie was interested in the long grass near the parking lot ( Read more... )

It has been ten years since I graduated from college. Just shy anyway. I now only have 2400 dollars of student loans outstanding. I just paid about that amount yesterday. My issue these days is not being able to do schoolwork. I really don't want to do it for some reason. I don't think it will change me, but if it does I don't want that change. I ( Read more... )

Today got back from Bentonsport. Stayed there last night with my family, Alicia and Joanie, as well as my mother, brother and sister, my aunt and cousin, and other aunt and grandma. It was fun, they gave Alicia and I and Joanie presents on account that Joanie was just born about a month ago ( Read more... )

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I have nothing to do. Nothing I have to do. Lack of money doesn't let me do the things I want to do, such as go to certain places. I could backpack but I don't want to. Soon I'd run out of food anyways. Sugar levels grumpiness depression depths. I want to have friends, but I don't want to make them again. I want to write but can't stand my tone ( Read more... )

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Here at Urbandale high school working as an associate and just observed a teacher present the Ramones' teenage lobotomy as a helpful way to understand the word cerebellum. which was my idea. delightful. she understood the song as the government lobotomizing its citizens, its use of ddt being a prime example. i never thought of it that way. i had ( Read more... )

My occupation these days is driving around spraying trees. Spruce trees this and last week, crab apple trees the couple weeks before that, austrian pines before that. I've sprayed them with fungicides. I don't know exactly how dangerous the chemicals are to me. The directions say to avoid them. Common sense stuff, like don't let it get on your ( Read more... )

Rather proud of my self as just found a disk i was looking for. I didn't just look under everything and in every stupid place like i normally do, i looked in a spot where it made sense for it to be (though i didn't really expect it to be there) and there it was ( Read more... )