But then there's this...
The lawn took a beating in that period of time between when the other people moved out and when I moved in. But I don't really want a lawn out here anyway. Little patches of green in the middle of the desert seem so out of place to me. Besides, I can walk across the street to the public golf course and get all the green I want at someone else's expense.
I'm meeting with a couple of contractors in the next couple days to get some estimates on changing the landscaping to something more desert friendly. There's a program going on with the water authority where they will pay you $1.50 per square foot of grass you remove. I've got about 400 square feet, so that's about $600 for doing something I would have eventually wanted to do anyway.
I'm done with the examples for my textbook, so now all I need to do is generate problems and solutions. My minor programming background is helping out here because I can make the computer generate both problems and solutions faster and more randomly than I can do on my own. It's currently around 270 pages, and I'm expecting it to be about 350 pages when it's done. I really want to be done with the textbook by the end of the week, but that's very ambitious. As soon as I'm done with this, I need to start work on prepping my Math 128 class that starts on June 29. I haven't done much yet, and we changed books, so this means I've got a little extra work to do.
I'm going to be visiting San Diego in about a week! My vacation time has already been booked, and it's going to be great. If I remember to bring my camera, I'll take pictures. If I don't, I won't. I'm usually not very good at remembering to take pictures, so don't get your hopes up.
I also need to plan a housewarming party. Or at least get someone to plan it for me.
