Sri Lankan Independence Day

Finally had the trees trimmed today.  And now for a haiku:


Dead branches disposed.
Wind whispers through laced green growth.
Tall trees tamely topped.


Hopefully, the trees weren't stressed further.  What do they have to be stressed about anyway?  They live in California for Pete's sake.  Who is Pete anyway?  They don't have to do the rest of the landscaping project, the pruning and the planting.  I do.  Without help from Pete.  At least the Sri Lankans are celebrating.


Jillian to Steph who was typing on the computer:  Is that Microscopic Word?

More on Mel the Microwave

Yesterday, we had the microwave finally fixed.  As it turns out, its a magnetron, not magnutron.  An interesting gadget.  But what I find interesting is that, as you can see on the picture to the right, the sticky-out part (technical term) looks totally fried - like the whole microwave was on the verge of spontaneously combusting, releasing a nuclear discharge of, well, microwaves.  Better go check my pantry to see if I can still get in there or if all of our boxes of pop corn have vicariously popped.

And in the "it's always something category," today we had a lady out to estimate trimming back our trees.  A cool $1,080, by the way.  We have 15-20 trees.  But that's not the shocking part.  She believes most of our 9 pine trees are beetle infested and probably can not be saved.  Not only would that be sad for the trees, but would cost way more than a thousand to remove/replace.  I've been on the phone with arborists all day trying to get some tree-age.  More later.

Our first baseball practice was rained out - before it even started to rain.  I still have a 4 hour rules meeting tonight though.  Yay.

On the job front:  sent my resume off into the internet abyss several more times today, frozen dessert is still pursuing me (picture an ice cream chasing me), I am contemplating a return to formal day trading, and I got a lead on a math tutoring gig.