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I’ve spent the week in front of my computer, mostly reading Craig’s List ads for web programmers. After hours of composing replies, all I have to show for it is one 2nd interview (via email) and one guy who called and said he may call again if he ever has anything for me.

I’m in bad need of some bustin’ out.

Is there anybody out there?

Who will bust out with me?

Hey everybody –

I spent yesterday at a Water Recycling Workshop, held at an organic farm/think tank at Cal Poly Pomona. But the workshop was actually delivered by a Northern California outfit called Solar Living Institute which tries to help people apply green living ideas to their everyday lives. In fact, SLI is hosting a great Festival in a couple of weeks which I wish I could attend; perhaps I’ll make it up there next year. But then, it wasn’t actually an SLI person who delivered the training, but a guy from the Orange County Water District.

His name was Dr. Stephen Lyon and this man knows water. The morning was spent on stuff that wasn’t really relevant to what I want to do with water in my life, but it was fascinating — he crammed a one-semester course on water chemistry and the hydrologic cycle into an hour and a half (ask me about the different roles of nitrates and nitrites — go ahead, ask me!) and traditional large scale water treatment. In the afternoon he got to what I was interested in — greywater systems (cleaning up your bathwater enough to use for watering plants, so the city doesn’t have to pay to treat it) and rainwater harvesting.

It kind of made me wish I’d become an environmental engineer, instead of whatever it is I’ve become. I think he’s had an interesting career so far (he’s a few years older than me) and had a chance to both do some science and make a difference. And I’m sure he’s made a lot more money than me too!

It took me about 8 hours to get through the steps in the “Five Minute Installation Instructions” document, but now we have blogs at Urban Village!

I probably won’t blog here much; my main way to communicate with the wider world is through the Bobologue which doesn’t quite fit the rules of a blog. But I may throw a short news item up occasionally.