ksmith | It's about time

...that I posted an actual entry.

These next six weeks will be busy. In addition to sporadic work on Endgame and guitar lessons and fall yardwork, I enrolled in an online tech writing course offered by UIC--Univ of Illinois at Chicago. I will have assignments due twice a week, weekly quizzes, and will need to devote 8-10 hours a week to the class overall. By the end, I hope to know more about the types and styles of technical writing that are popular today, and whether there are any moneymaking opportunities to be had doing it. Planning for the secnd career...or is that the third career?

Had my second guitar lesson today--started reading music and playing notes again. Much to work on for next week. On Saturday, I hacked down a monster burning bush that was in the process of consuming my house. It looks pretty barren now, but in a year or two it should bounce back. I may use the before and after shots as avatars as soon as I take some after shots.

Used a chainsaw for the first time. Heh.

In other news, I've been trying to befriend a stray dog that has been hanging around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, it's been a case of one step forward, two steps back. Yesterday, we fed him dry dog food and liver, and he spent some time sleeping in our front yard. He's emaciated, and I felt sure that the lure of decent food would be enough to get him to hang around--I would like to get him to a shelter if possible. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as I hoped--he saw me today, and just kept going, cutting through the neighbor's yard and disappearing.

As mentioned before, work on Endgame continues sporadic--for the last two nights, what words I added were cancelled out by the words I cut, meaning no net wordage to report. I probably should get to it now, so off to brew a cuppa peppermint tea I go...