I’ve been meaning to make this post but I just havn’t had time. I don’t really have time now so I’ll have to keep it brief.

I decided back in April to start a landscaping business. It’s taken me until now to get it rolling and I still haven’t seen any return. But I do have enough maintenance contracts to live off of for the year. Problem is, checks don’t come in til the end of the month, argh! Anyway thanks to the fact that I live rent free at present and had a few hundred dollars of savings I was able to hold out while I got set up. I got a loan for $2500 and got my dad to cosign so I could buy some equipment and a trailer. Let me back up; the idea is to do maintenance for bread and butter while I get my contractors certificate and to support myself and pay for advertising. I figure that way I can build up a reputation in the mean time.

So I bought a trimmer, edger, blower, and trailer and I’m using my dad’s zero turn lawnmower. I made contact with a couple of real estate agents and quickly got enough work to keep myself busy. It seems everybody around here knows how to do books (even though no-one seems to have any money) so I have plenty of help figuring that out.

So I’m mowing the parking lots of a couple of mega chain stores, a few office plazas and a few houses. I got a good environmental design job, securing the banks of a drainage pond (to be rain garden,)  another residential design install job, and I’m having fun  learning to juggle things and fill my time with something besides idly spouting rhetoric outside the co-op or coffee shop, what have you.

So at present and working about 50hrs a week and not getting paid. But I’ll feel better in a couple of weeks I hope. I can barely squeeze in workout time but I’m doing it and recently passed the second level of Hop Gar.

Life isn’t perfect by any means I’m lonely as hell and I miss my cats so much I want to commit seppuku. Still haven’t quit smoking either. I can say though, that zyban has no effect on me.