As of today I have aged 25 years. Nicole gave me some beautiful music which I had been pining for for quite some time and some absolutely delicious smelling spicy tea. I am anxious to have some in the morning before work.

I'm working about 56 hours per week now on the b-shift at Coopervision. Fortunately I don't have much of "a life" to be disappointed about missing out on... My feet are angry with me but the paycheck is nice and I am losing weight. Curiosity is nudging me towards picking up a pedometer so I can see how many miles ten hours of fast paced walking fetches me. I'm doing well and my supervisor wants to hire me as soon as he can so... hurray for job security

Despite not winning the Windgate fellowship grant, I'm going to proceed with my plans and use some of these nice shiny paychecks to start building a nice shiny metal casting furnace. I love casting every bit as much as I do painting and I think that it could turn into something somewhat profitable for me. Painting is a bit too personal and private of an activity for me to try and use it for any serious cash flow, but I can see myself casting bronze bookends and other functional/accessible things for that purpose. So yeah, it is past my bedtime. Time for sleep.