Tis a fine barn but tis no pool English

The shed dream is coasting gently towards reality. Cormac (the brother) is coming to St. Paul for a week during May of next year. Fran (the step-father-in-law) will be in town for a few days. Between the three of us, and a boatload of cheap beer, we should make some major progress on the resurrection.

I will need to spend the weeks before their arrival clearing out the inside and clearing the outside perimeter of junk and vegetation. We’ll need to be able to get at the foundation to break it up in order to get the bottle jacks under the sill plate.

This is too exciting.

Smokeless in St. Paul

Eight years ago today I stopped smoking. All thanks to Allen Carr. It’s interesting to measure what I have not been missing.

12
Average number of cigarettes I used to smoke every day.

12 x 365 x 8 = 35,040
Number of cigarettes not smoked in the last eight years.

100mm
Approximate length of one cigarette.

35,040 x 100mm = 3,504meters (2.19miles)
Total length of cigarettes not smoked laid end to end.