Finally, the rain that we have not had all year is coming down. I feel a bit like Noah, here, if only in that this is the third day in a row that it has rained. Please understand that this is not a complaint on my part. After all, the ground moisture is very low. We need all the rain we can get before the ground freezes, so that the trees can get rejuvenated. I think that if it had not rained, we would lose many trees over the winter. Fortunately, for this area, this is a nice, light to moderate rainfall, and it has continued for three days. Thank God for the rain.
Dave and Josh came to visit this weekend. They arrived Saturday and stayed until Sunday night. We didn’t do much Saturday night, just worked on the greenhouse, in the dark, during a break in the rain showers. Then we watched an old movie that is interesting and engaging, though there is an underlying implied commentary about things that the U.S. government did during Viet Nam, experiments with psychotropic drugs that were used on soldiers without their knowledge. That is part of the storyline, but it is not preachy, so it doesn’t get in the way of the story. The star is a raving Marxist wacko in the real world, but he is a gifted actor, so I can only separate the acting from the delirious political rage of the actor. The movie? Jacob’s Ladder. The actor? Tim Robbins.
Dave and Josh drove up to Hibbing on Sunday morning to have a look around. Sometime after the end of November, Dave will be living in the Hibbing area, so he wanted to familiarize himself with that area. He sounded upbeat about the amenities there, and located the school (filling Josh with unending joy, I am sure), the stores they will frequent, and looked at places where Dave’s Significant Other, Melissa, will work. It sounds like she will be in Minnesota soon. Dave is in high spirits and that is a good thing. I am glad for their whole family.
I finished part 3 of the paper I am writing about business proposals for the island of Kava. That is for my critical thinking in business class. It is pretty bogus, and if I remember correctly, it is the third critical thinking class I have had in three years of college. I know that a large part of college is training the mind so that an employer can be confident that you know how to learn. Then, a college graduate gets a job where the employer retrains their mind again anyway. Rather ironic, but that is how I see it. In any case, I finished the third part of the paper. I have two group assignments left for the class, and I will finish the class this weekend. I do not remember what my next class is, but it will start a week from tomorrow. Moving on….
Dave and Josh came to visit this weekend. They arrived Saturday and stayed until Sunday night. We didn’t do much Saturday night, just worked on the greenhouse, in the dark, during a break in the rain showers. Then we watched an old movie that is interesting and engaging, though there is an underlying implied commentary about things that the U.S. government did during Viet Nam, experiments with psychotropic drugs that were used on soldiers without their knowledge. That is part of the storyline, but it is not preachy, so it doesn’t get in the way of the story. The star is a raving Marxist wacko in the real world, but he is a gifted actor, so I can only separate the acting from the delirious political rage of the actor. The movie? Jacob’s Ladder. The actor? Tim Robbins.
Dave and Josh drove up to Hibbing on Sunday morning to have a look around. Sometime after the end of November, Dave will be living in the Hibbing area, so he wanted to familiarize himself with that area. He sounded upbeat about the amenities there, and located the school (filling Josh with unending joy, I am sure), the stores they will frequent, and looked at places where Dave’s Significant Other, Melissa, will work. It sounds like she will be in Minnesota soon. Dave is in high spirits and that is a good thing. I am glad for their whole family.
I finished part 3 of the paper I am writing about business proposals for the island of Kava. That is for my critical thinking in business class. It is pretty bogus, and if I remember correctly, it is the third critical thinking class I have had in three years of college. I know that a large part of college is training the mind so that an employer can be confident that you know how to learn. Then, a college graduate gets a job where the employer retrains their mind again anyway. Rather ironic, but that is how I see it. In any case, I finished the third part of the paper. I have two group assignments left for the class, and I will finish the class this weekend. I do not remember what my next class is, but it will start a week from tomorrow. Moving on….
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