I don’t think I’ve ever worked as hard as I did yesterday. I wish I’d kept track, but I must have mowed about a hundred acres… Oh wait, I don’t own a hundred acres. Well I just went to grab a link to the equipment I was using, and they say 2/3 ac per hour. I did a two hour section, and then took a break, and then did another two hour section, and then took another break. Then I mowed the lawn with a regular old 22″ mower, and after that I worked some on my daughter’s laptop that was so full of spyware/malware/popup you could barely get a click in edgewise. Fucking Microsoft!

And then Wifey and I deployed the new mobile chicken house I built so the broilers we’re raising can have a steady diet of grass and bugs and worms in addition to their grain. The idea is that you drag it along ever day so the chickens don’t over-fertilize the grass. It’s quite nice, if I do say so myself!

And then I went back out with the brush cutter and took down another half acre of purple loosestrife. Man, that stuff grows like weeds! OK, so adding up all of the mowing… hmm… plus that… carry the one… I think I mowed about a hundred acres yesterday!

Oh, and the wildlife… I almost forgot! There were lots of frogs, or were they toads? Grasshoppers or crickets — honestly, what is the difference? There were a few shrews or mice, but it was hard to tell which. And beetles and butterflies everywhere! Didn’t see any snakes, though, which was a bit of a surprise.

Saturday night we started watching Syriana, but we gave up after an hour and a half. We finished it last night and let me tell you, I think it’s the worse movie I’ve ever seen. The plot is so scattered and disjointed that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of who’s who, what’s where and why, why, why?! Now I really like a movie that breaks the mold — and I love independent film — but you have to have a story and you have to tell the story and you have to take the viewer from start to finish. And I’m a pretty intelligent guy and I understand the Middle East pretty well, and I still don’t understand why, at the end of the movie, everyone was eaten by pirates. I just don’t. I really, really think that everyone who gave this movie a good review was just afraid to say they didn’t get it, lest they be considered some kind of maroon. I ain’t, and I didn’t. Reminds me a bit of The Emperor’s New Clothes… But he hasn’t got anything on! No, he really hasn’t.