The Summer’s To-Do List

1. Paint the house – Both bedrooms have been painted, nothing else
2. Take a Stats Course
3. Don’t drop out of Stats Course
4. Pass Stats Course – Almost there!
5. Submit five stories for publishing – 2/5s done
6. Start comic book collaboration with Breck – if, by “start” I meant prepare to start (close enough)
7. Get both novels (both untitled as yet) to ten chapters – Five on one, three on the other
8. Go camping with Shaun – done, hoping for another one in early autumn/late summer
9. Read through GVC’s student literary magazine to prepare for Editorship in Spring
10. Run Renee’s degree audit – She’ll be a December ‘07 graduate of DMACC
11. Convince Renee to go to GVC in the fall
12. Write at least five other short stories for submit during fall season – started three, like two of them, none are finished
13. Take Clep to test out of computer science class this fall – tentatively scheduled, but not completed
14. Don’t quit job without finding a fall-back position – so far, so good. But I’ve been tempted several times
15. Revamp résumé, predicting upcoming school year – thought a lot about it, no action taken
16. Avoid blogging, - using lists, videos and other miscellaneous distractions, as needed

17. Make baby with Renee

He'll save children, but not the British children.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1696935

Gearing up for the first camping trip of the year

Unlike Rob's back hair, this is going to be an unimpressive feature.

So, it might be a little tardy for a first trip of the year, but since I never top more than two trips in any given year, not a huge deal for me. As usual, I'm taking nephew Shaun, but it will also mark the first camping trip for his little brother, Anthony. We're not getting very adventurous. I've opted to take them to the good ol' standby down in Hopeville. My parents' property is straight across from the park, so they'll have some (crappy) playground equipment and plenty of area to run around in. Plus it's 15 minutes from my parents in case of an inconsolable Anthony, or monsoon. I've earmarked Saturday and Sunday as our days out there, but I might bump it up to Friday and Saturday, so I have a day to recover before work. That is, provided I can inspect my tent and stuff today and prepare accordingly.

Okay, gonna go do something else now.