All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

At least, I ‘R’ ‘B’ employed on the 9th.  Starting then, I will be proudly flipping burgers at your friendly neighborhood Wendy’s.  I have gone from being an owner of the company to employee.  So sad.  So very sad.

Ha ha, I jest.  Not that the work done by the fine employees at Wendy’s is something to laugh at or anything.  It’s just not for me.  I actually will be working at myFamily.com in their tech support starting at $10.00/hr (with room for growth).  I even got a nifty parking pass, which I would display here in picture form were I not so limited in computer access.

So finally, the long job search is over.  I don’t even go in to work until 11am!  Of course, the catch is that I don’t get off until 7pm, but it’s not like I had much of a social life anyway.  So yeah, yay for me.  Also, happy belated birthday to me.  Thank you all for your phone calls, e-mails, and…Facebook messages.  Those especially were touching.

     I’d like to thank you all for coming out here.  I have an announcement to make.  To be honest, I feel kinda stupid doing this.  In retrospect, I should have just gone ahead with my plan without the announcement, but I already sent out the e-mail telling everyone to come to my blog for more information on this and I don’t think they’ll want to read about my flowers (pretty as they are).  So here goes.  I, Shaun Carlson, am giving up the Internet in my home and the use of my computer.

     Jerks.  What was that for?  Because I know a lot of you are laughing at me right now.  “What?  Shaun?  The guy who has grown up with computers and who has hardly gone a day without using them or the Internet is giving them up?  What a joke!”

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     No, there is not a typo in my title.  I realize that one would expect me to use the word “flair” instead, but I’m making a pun.  It’s really obscure and I don’t expect any of you to catch it.  It’s pretty bad (no, not dirty!).  Second off, I meant to have this post to be a part of the previous one, but that one quickly grew out of control so I decided to break them up.  Don’t worry, this one doesn’t have nearly as many boring words and way more pretty pictures.

     I have more pictures from my garden to display.  It’s nearing the end of August and thus, the growing season.  I’m going to try for a couple of fall crops soon, like carrots, spinach, and lettuce once more, but definitely on a smaller scale. 

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     Just a quick item before we begin.  I’ve been listening to the soundtrack to “The Phantom of the Opera” intermittently while writing this, so if my writing at some point suddenly becomes lyrical or melodramatic (more so than usual), you’ll know why.

     Whether or not my garden was a success depends entirely on how you choose to look at it.  In terms of actual production, it was a flop, and a fantastic one at that.  I planted about twenty different types of plants.  Five grew: the corn, two pea types, sunflowers, and the zinnia.  From these five, production was probably around a tenth of capacity.  If that.  So I’m looking at around two and a half per cent yield.  That’s not enough to break even (and it certainly doesn’t take much to break even on just the price of the seeds vs. the price of the produce).

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