On other days, i'll work for Dynamic Manufacturing, located on the 2nd floor of Building A-2. Here there the work is perhaps more mundane and repetitious, but when one has a portable radio in one's ear, it's not so bad as one might initially surmise. i'll usually be assigned to such tasks as assembling and testing cables for an instrument of some sort. To be honest, i haven't really done much else there, though my first task was slightly different: i actually assembled an entire instrument call a "surveyor", which involved two circuitboards, a cable or two, and the chassis. Whoopee. Well, that's enough about work...

EATING, SLEEPING, ETC.

     My living accomodations are, to say the least, unique. I'm boarding on the first floor of a three story house owned by a single mother who has one daughter, Jesseka, age 7. They have 3 ducks as pets: Peeper, who is at present living in a cage under the front steps, and Sasha & Daisy, who used to live in the attic, but at the moment are living in the first-floor bathtub. (Did i say unique?) These are temporary quarters for the ducks, as we are building a pen for them all on the hill next to the house.
     Which brings me to why i am here. i am boarding fairly cheaply here in return for helping with certain tasks around the house. And there is a lot to be done, let me tell you. You might say the house is a "fixer-upper". It's 180 years old, and it's only had such modern conveniences like running water and electricity for a little less than a year now. It's decorated in the style of 20th-century Renovation, so to speak. Like i said, right now we're working on building the duck pen outside so the animals can be moved outside where they and we will be happier to have them. After this is done, there will be many other things to do, both in and out of the house.
     i'm gettin' around town by way of public transportation. The system in Pittsburgh is quite admirable, and i'm getting pretty good at using it to my advantage. By the end of the summer, you could probably name any place in the greater Pittsburgh area, and i could figure out how to get there and, given enough  time, would get there successfully.

Any of you who haven't ever used any sort of public transportation where you live (that is there is one available), i would highly encourage you to for at least one round trip somewhere; the experience expands one's perspective.
     i commute about two hours a day to and from work each weekday. This is not as exhausting as you might think; i look at it as built-in time for leisure reading. To conclude this section, here's my basic itinerary for a typical workday, if you're the least bit interested:

HOBBIES & AVOCATIONS

     And if all the aforementioned wasn't enough, there are all the interests i have in other things on the side, too.

My Computer, a.k.a. The Renaissance Machine.
     The good ol' Renaissance Machine is still hummin', and it has a few new capabilities. i finally got a new printer a month or so ago. i bought my last printer sometime in high school when color inkjets happened to be big klunky and expensive. This new one, an OKIJET 2020, is positively spoiling me. i also have bought a new disk drive--- a LS-120

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