Along a similar vein as yesterday's post I suppose. Trying to decide what I want to do with my life (be when I grow up, if you will).
Ideas that currently sound appealing to me:
- Live in a small house somewhere. Big houses seem like a waste of space. I think people can do with a lot less room than they figure they need. Having less room also encourages you to go out and be somewhere else. Getting out of the house is good for you I think. Especially if that somewhere else is out on a walk or something like that.
- Live in a small town / the country. Big cities don't appeal to me I think. I guess I would like to live close enough to civilization that I don't need to drive an hour to see another person.
- Have a garden. I think a garden would do me good. I like plants.
- Have a nice tree. Trees seem nice. They have character.
- Make enough money to get by, but not so much that I start to get greedy or feel like I need it. It always gets to me when people talk about how they don't have enough money. Bypassing the whole third world country argument, if you are even moderately middle class you have enough money. If you are making minimum wage trying to support a family, then you have something to complain about. If you work a middle of the road office job, you are just spending too damn much. My two cents.
Anyway, just some thoughts.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Wayne does the life (Feb 24 2014)
Sometimes I'm not sure what to think about things. Today marks 2 years that I've been at my current job. It's been good as far as making money and putting it away. I've learned a lot from practice that you can't quite pick up just based on what you learn in classes. So I am grateful for the time I have spent there. I just feel sometimes that life is now on autopilot and I'm not really advancing.
I guess advancing is a bit of an uncertain term. You have to specify what you are advancing toward. I don't really have any interest in "climbing the corporate ladder" or whatever. Mostly I just want to live my life and not have to worry about much and not have to slave away.
Some of it stems from the fact that I think I saw Fight Club at exactly the wrong point in my life. The movie gets pretty whacky by the end, but the first half has some solid advice I think. Mainly the line "We work jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need" always resonated with me. Toward that end, I've tried to limit my spending so that I don't end up in that position. Maybe the makes me a crappy American or something. I just don't have any desire to be in debt.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I think I will like to work towards living deliberately. Doing things to move myself towards some goal, rather than just rolling with the tide and seeing where I end up. I think I've done more than enough of that lately.
I guess advancing is a bit of an uncertain term. You have to specify what you are advancing toward. I don't really have any interest in "climbing the corporate ladder" or whatever. Mostly I just want to live my life and not have to worry about much and not have to slave away.
Some of it stems from the fact that I think I saw Fight Club at exactly the wrong point in my life. The movie gets pretty whacky by the end, but the first half has some solid advice I think. Mainly the line "We work jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need" always resonated with me. Toward that end, I've tried to limit my spending so that I don't end up in that position. Maybe the makes me a crappy American or something. I just don't have any desire to be in debt.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I think I will like to work towards living deliberately. Doing things to move myself towards some goal, rather than just rolling with the tide and seeing where I end up. I think I've done more than enough of that lately.
Wayne Does The Gardening (Feb 24 2014)
A quick update on the plants in my window garden.
The potato I am growing in a 5 gallon bucket is really starting to take off. Potatoes seem to grow slowly until all the sudden they grow quickly. Maybe it has to do with them having enough leaves to catch the sun. I am planning to get some straw and bury the stem since I hear that makes the plant want to make more potatoes. We'll see what happens.
The mint plant is slowly starting to come back. It has maybe 5 - 10 shoots starting to grow leaves. A far cry from how it was before it died off, but on its way back to health.
There is a cilantro starting to grow in the pot I'm growing the kale in. Last year I had a cilantro growing in there and after it died, I planted some of the seeds in the pot. Guess now that winter is almost over, the seeds have decided its a good time to sprout.
I'm attempting to grow a ginger plant, but it hasn't decided to sprout any roots yet. I have it sitting with its base in some water. That is supposed to encourage things to sprout I think. So far no luck.
The potato I am growing in a 5 gallon bucket is really starting to take off. Potatoes seem to grow slowly until all the sudden they grow quickly. Maybe it has to do with them having enough leaves to catch the sun. I am planning to get some straw and bury the stem since I hear that makes the plant want to make more potatoes. We'll see what happens.
The mint plant is slowly starting to come back. It has maybe 5 - 10 shoots starting to grow leaves. A far cry from how it was before it died off, but on its way back to health.
There is a cilantro starting to grow in the pot I'm growing the kale in. Last year I had a cilantro growing in there and after it died, I planted some of the seeds in the pot. Guess now that winter is almost over, the seeds have decided its a good time to sprout.
I'm attempting to grow a ginger plant, but it hasn't decided to sprout any roots yet. I have it sitting with its base in some water. That is supposed to encourage things to sprout I think. So far no luck.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Wayne Does The Gardening
I live in an apartment, so I don't have a yard to put an actual garden. But I do have a sort of window garden going on. Currently I have the following: 5 apple saplings, 3 potato plants, 1 mint plant, 1 pot of basil plants, 1 kale, 1 pot of green onions, 1 pineapple, 1 Christmas cactus, 1 aloe vera.
I started the apples from seed last spring. They spent the year in 8" pots, but this winter I moved them to 5 gallon buckets. I hope that will give them room to grow for a while longer. One thing I am concerned about is that since the trees are inside, they didn't really get the full winter experience. They lost a bunch of their leaves, which I hope is them being dormant for the winter and not them just being dead. Spring will tell...
I forgot to water the mint plant one week last month and then noticed that it had completely dried up and died. I gave it a bunch of water and now two weeks later it looks like I have several new leaves starting. I've always heard that it is a very hearty plant, so I'm glad that it's bouncing back.
The green onions, pineapple, and kale we grew from leftovers of food we bought at the grocery store. The green onions are in a pot suspended over water, and I trained their roots to reach down into the water. They seem to really like it that way. They never get thirsty but they also aren't drowning. I think it is actually pretty similar to how root systems work outside, so I might try to repeat it for some of my other plants. We'll see.
I'm currently trying to sprout a ginger plant from a chunk of ginger root we had sitting in our fridge. I attempted to do it last year, but the ginger just rotted. Maybe this year I will have better luck.
Anyway, that is my garden. I hope to move some of the pots outside once it starts to warm up.
-- Wayne
I started the apples from seed last spring. They spent the year in 8" pots, but this winter I moved them to 5 gallon buckets. I hope that will give them room to grow for a while longer. One thing I am concerned about is that since the trees are inside, they didn't really get the full winter experience. They lost a bunch of their leaves, which I hope is them being dormant for the winter and not them just being dead. Spring will tell...
I forgot to water the mint plant one week last month and then noticed that it had completely dried up and died. I gave it a bunch of water and now two weeks later it looks like I have several new leaves starting. I've always heard that it is a very hearty plant, so I'm glad that it's bouncing back.
The green onions, pineapple, and kale we grew from leftovers of food we bought at the grocery store. The green onions are in a pot suspended over water, and I trained their roots to reach down into the water. They seem to really like it that way. They never get thirsty but they also aren't drowning. I think it is actually pretty similar to how root systems work outside, so I might try to repeat it for some of my other plants. We'll see.
I'm currently trying to sprout a ginger plant from a chunk of ginger root we had sitting in our fridge. I attempted to do it last year, but the ginger just rotted. Maybe this year I will have better luck.
Anyway, that is my garden. I hope to move some of the pots outside once it starts to warm up.
-- Wayne
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