Adventures with DEP, Chapter Twelve Thousand Something...

The day was interrupted by a visit from an engineer attached to the Maine State Department of Environment /P/e/r/s/e/c/u/t/i/o/n Protection, bearing the happy news that the remediation building on our property (aka, the Ice Cream Stand) is at long last Going Away. DEP has been with us since we bought this house -- some fourteen years ago. At that time, they estimated that the remediation (gas tanks left in the ground rotted through, gas got into the groundwater and lurked in pockets deep inside the busted up shale that is our land) would take six months. Fourteen years later, they're looking at being out of here by the end of the summer. Qualified Huzzah! (Unqualified Huzzahs forthcoming when the damn' building is gone and all the test wells are filled in. Call me an Attitude Case.)

Some books were mailed at Unity, some more were packed to be mailed tomorrow, some writing was done, and some minor dinking around in SL -- I bought out my neighbor, who apparently wasn't getting enough dwell to justify her free money scheme, for a very reasonable price. I'm thinking about planting a garden, though flowers are pretty expensive in SL...

We watched Howl's Moving Castle last night. kinzel had never read the book, while I, based on manymany recommendations, had read it for the first time last year, and so was several times struck by the deviations of plot. Nonetheless, a good time was had by all.

Progress on the Book Without a Name

35,283 / 98,000 (36.0%)

EDITED to bring word count into alignment with reality.