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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

I have a plan now. It’s good to have a plan, because then you can hold yourself accountable for sticking to the plan. Since this is a plan for landscape maintenance, we’ll just have to see how far I go with it. But a plan is a plan, whether you actually implement it or not.

This is a new plan, because the old plan wasn’t working. The old plan was to do as much mowing as I could during the weekend, and then either pull weeds by hand or use the cordless trimmer during the week. The flaw in this plan was that I couldn’t do enough mowing at one time. Two days a week wasn’t going to be enough time to push the mower all the way through the big back yard. Ever.

Besides, there was always some reason I couldn’t take time to mow on Saturday. Or if I could do it Saturday, I couldn’t do it Sunday. So here I am mowing a tiny patch of weeds every weekend, while in the meantime the rest of the yard was growing back.

It was a losing battle with no victory in sight. Probably the president knows how I was feeling.

The new plan incorporates elements of the old plan, but the weekday routine is different. This reflects the fact that I was pretty much bailing on doing anything during the week anyway. So far I’ve stuck to the new plan for two whole days in a row, so I’m guardedly optimistic. Yesterday and today I’ve used the mower to go over small patches, mostly areas that have been previously mowed. I think that if I don’t try to overdo it at any one time, I’ll be more likely to stick with it.




13 June 2005

I'd rather point the camera up than down.



I still have about half of the big back yard that hasn’t been touched since last August. That’s a lot of growing, and with the weather we’re having, it’s also a lot of drying out. It’s all golden brown now, and it’s nearly over my head. That’s the part I’m saving for the weekend. I just don’t know if there are enough weekends left in me to get to it all.




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When Jason Schmidt beat the free-swinging Tigers a week ago, the win was met with reservations from some corners. He doesn’t have his old velocity, some said. Fans wanted to say “he’s back,” and the manager actually did say it, but it’s been a disappointing season for the Giants ace. Well, guess what. He’s back. He did the same thing to the more disciplined Diamondbacks tonight, shutting them out for eight innings on the way to a 4-0 Giants win. (On a side note, I was happy to hear the fans booing the manager when he came out to remove Schmidt in the top of the ninth, although I have to admit the stalwarts in the Giants bullpen, Scott Eyre and Tyler Walker, were spectacular in relief. It’s just that Felipe Alou and I have issues when it comes to handling a pitching staff. And I think the results so far have proven that I’m right and he’s wrong.)

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