Two Penny Travels

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting

I am waiting for the Federal Government to decide how they are going to handle the Debt Ceiling and Deficit debate. I personally prefer the balanced approach offered by the Democrats because I see less disruption of our economic future. But at the same time, thinking how this country is hell-bent on running into the wall and having to deal with the results of a self-induced recession or depression has its appeal.

Our family unit here in southern California is getting along well. My garden is surviving now that I have found a fence strong enough to reject the rabbits. Of course, it helps that the plants have gotten bigger. Now a rabbit cannot destroy an entire crop by eating a single shoot. I planted eight English Pea plants a couple of days ago. And we are harvesting cucumbers and tomatos now.

So, not much else to say. At least I got a new post in before a week had passed.

sam, the Prudent RVer

 

Over a month of water under the bridge

I have been very lax at updating this blog. On June 12 I announced the completion of Was A Time When and then went silent. I have actually been doing some things.

The garden goes well, and my fence seems to be keeping the rabbits out. However, there is/was a squirrel that liked basil. No recent attacks, and I am even havesting some fruits of my labors -- I hope to see more soon like my tomatos.

The book received a couple of strong reviews about its unreadability and depressive nature. So I am working on trying to reverse the flow of time back to forward in the book, and this is not going so well as I thought it would. At the same time I am doing the clean-up to minimize passive voice, use a wider selection of words rather than repeated uses, and generally trying to make the flow feel better. That effort took quite a bit of my writing energy -- one of the reasons for lack of blogging.

I am also doing some work on the website here at Jojoba Hills and need to do more. In addition, I was working on doing a demographic analysis of the membership, but found that the source data had not been fully maintained over the years. When I offered to help fix it, that upset the apple cart here and people began objecting to my having any kind of access to what could be sensitive personal information. I am now at the point of saying screw it.

Probably the biggest obstical to writing the blog has been my computer problems. My laptop had begun to have display problems. It was still on warranty so I did a "full backup" of my data to thumb drives and took the machine in for repair -- and was told it would be two to six weeks. So I went down the aisle and bought a new laptop, a Vaio 745 with humungous RAM and Hard Drive. It also came with Windows 7.

For the past two weeks I have been reloading my backup files into a Windows 7 environment. I also had to download the latest Firefox and Thunderbird and make the necessary changes in the data to get it all to work. That has been much more work than I thought it would. At least I am now pretty much back up and running.

Plus I have been working on getting our business partnership with Nancy Lesser-Adamo on a sounder footing. Still more work to do on that.

So I will try to blog more often.

Sam Penny, the Prudent RVer