Monday Mark started his summer job with an accounting firm which audits municipalities and school districts. Hopefully this will give him an idea whether he should concentrate on Accounting or Finance his last two years at college.

Jean started teaching her summer session already, which is ironic since she will finish it before I finish my school year. She is teaching 2 hours of Statistics and 2 hours of Basic Math every morning Monday through Thursday. That is a tiring schedule, so four weeks is long enough.

I do not know if it is harder to learn to play a musical instrument as one gets older, but I have spent the past two weeks trying to learn how to play diminished bar-chords. I finally realized near the end of last week that they are variations on the D7 chord, so now I am gradually getting better with it. This summer I hope to spend more practice time on guitar, since I need to review a lot of what I have learned this past year, as well as improve the recent stuff I have been learning. And, yes, I do spend time playing classic rock songs, mostly Bob Dylan recently, although I have done some Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and even Led Zeppelin’s great song “Going to California.”

Another tiring week at school, as some of my classes get lazier and lazier. At times I wonder whether work ethics exist in the general population anymore–although, happily, it still does exist in the upper tier of students who will be the movers and shakers of the next generation. But they are a small percentage of the school population, and it is sad that their attitude is the exception rather than the rule.

Another Buy One Get One Free offer, this time from the Quality Paperback Book Club. I intend to order Jean a mystery in the acclaimed series No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency set in Africa, and myself a book as well. I an deciding between the historical mystery The Eight and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, although I am leaning towards the former book.

My monitor is acting very peculiar, so I assume it is only a matter of (short) time before it dies completely. I really hope we have a spare monitor in the basement, since I have a lot of chores to do this upcoming five-day weekend, including edit The Fan, the newsletter of the N3F which I edit twice a year. It will be impossible to do that task sharing one computer with Jean and Andy.