i like saltines.

so the speedy replacement plan, phase 1 is coming along about how you'd expect which means nowhere, so of course as a professional project manager i consider the best plan here is to skip to the following phases. in the interest of being social, today i went to a baby shower. well, baby showers are crap and people who let their kids run around undisciplined are crap and making small talk with humourless idiots is crap, so needless to say all phases of the SRP are going about how you'd expect.

::SIGH::

in other news, we did a bit of work outdoors today - warshing cars & deck & air filters, warshing a couple windows, picking up sticks. one is struck by the relentlessness of the yardwork. warsh the deck, it gets dirty again. pick up sticks, more fall. mow the grass, it grows back. yes, there is a relentlessness to the outdoor tasks, but the unrelenting opposing force is gaia. you can't change gaia and it's not like she's doing things on purpose to us. i mean, the fight of us against gaia is one-sided. she doesn't fight back. she is what she is. we are trying to change her, she's not changing, the end. so the work is relentless but there's an odd sort of spirituality in it - a communion with the ever-present, ever-same.

contrast doing the dishes over & over. it's relentless, too, but it's man-made. i mean, someone's consciously using a dish and consciously choosing to leave it in the sink. the fight to keep ahead of the dishes is a fight to keep someone from sabatoging your fight to keep ahead of the dishes. unless you want to say that leaving the dishes in the sink is nature, it's not going to change, the end. but really, i am not buying that.