Yesterday I finished all the training for the Census Bureau. Now I'm just waiting for my boss to call me and tell me when I can go out and start counting people. I'm pretty excited about it. It's fun to do a job mandated by the Constitution.
I'm still working part time at Bass Pro Shops. It is only part time because of Wuhan restrictions. The health department only lets us serve two customers per hour at the gun counter, and only two customers per hour at the ammo counter; not that we have any ammo. For example, there is a nationwide shortage of all the most popular kinds. We've been out of buckshot since March.
My instructor from last semester's waste water management class sent me an email and asked me to apply for a job in his department. He is the director of public works for a small city here in the Bay Area. I submitted my application late last night but wont hear anything until October. Governments have very slow hiring processes. This brings to three the number of waste water management departments I've applied to since I finished the training.
Also yesterday, I helped Kathleen with her classes. I wrote the first assignment for her history class (it has to do with identifying values that motivate people to make the decisions we call history) and gave her the readings and assignments for the first six weeks of her economics class. Plato, Aristotle, Bastiat, Marx (He's been in the grave for 140 years but he is still killing people.), Smith, Hazlitt for the first six weeks. In the second 6 weeks, I think, she is going to do Hayek, Friedman, and Keynes.
Today I began growing bacteria for the garden. Yes, we are composting but I think the nutrients we have been putting into the soil are not getting into the plants because the bacteria are getting killed by the heat. (Hot soil is a hazzard of growing in raised beds.) So now I am growing bacteria and in a few days I will pour it all over the garden. Then I'll cover the ground with a good mat of straw to keep the soil from getting too hot.
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"identifying values that motivate people to make the decisions we call history" - What? Is that a common topic of, what would you call it, Historic Philosophy? Decision-making sounds so intentional and simple, whereas history is countless small happenings that often occur accidentally or because people put aside their values. Will she study God, too, and the values that motivate His decisions, the restraining of evil for example?
That Wikipedia list of left-wing militant groups shocks me. Obviously I haven't been keeping up with history!
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