Chez Toast or Toast Haus

No, I have not fixed my front door. The piece I got would not fit. As is always the case with my house, nothing is standard. Need a new widget? Well, the ones they sell today won't fit... story of my life.

I've completed week 3 of summer semester. It's been very enjoyable. I've gotten lots out of the lectures as well as the text. It's amazing how much slower I read when I am reading to retain instead of just to pass time.
I'm reading a book on FDR called "The Defining Moment" for a book review that I have to do. So far I'm enjoying the book, but as I said before, it's slow going.

The hardest thing for me so far is time management. I have not had to make constructive use of my time in about 15 years. I'm not used to it. Are summer work schedule is 4 ten-hour days when added to class 2 nights a week, makes for some long days. So then I have to be productive with my time off... and that's not something I'm used to doing. Add lawn mowing once a week and trying to see Little on a regular basis, doesn't leave me with too much time left for loafing. And loafing has been pretty much my mantra for many years.

So, in the meantime, ponder this question... why did the northern states abandon civil war reconstruction so quickly and easily after so many of their sons died to preserve the union and end slavery? Kinda smells like the current situation in Iraq with all the whiners losing the stomach for the cause of Freedom. Everybody was all RAH RAH after September 11th... where did it all go? C'mon people, doing the right thing ain't always easy!