Well, I am home.  After 18 hours of cross-country driving, I rolled into Lansing at 6am on Monday.  Ugh!  What a long, boring (and thankfully) uneventful drive.  I’ve decided that I don’t want to make any more drives over 8 hrs, especially when I’m pulling a trailer.  Although I am home, I don’t know if I want to unpack.  With a couple of job interviews in the next week, it seems unlikely that I’ll be staying in Lansing. So why unpack if I’m going to have to repack by the end of the month?

Funny story – when Lisa and I were unloading, my next door neighbor, Sherry comes over to say hi.  Sherry and her husband Paul have lived in that same house for 40+ years now and kinda treat me like a son.  Anyway, Sherry walks over and the first words out of her mouth are, “Hi Todd.  My gosh, you’ve put on weight!”  Yeah, thanks Sherry.. Just what I wanted to hear.

At any rate, I’ve got lots of stuff to do at home.  For starters, by Sherry and my neighbor across the street, Donna, have commented on how messy my flower beds are. They both would like to see me fix those beds up.  And, since most of the upstairs of my house is empty, this would be a great time to sand and refinish my hardwood floors.  In any event, I need to decide how much money to spend on my house, since it seems unlikely that I’ll be in it much longer.  Certainly, refinishing the floors, improving the landscaping and completing the fence around my property would add value to the house.  Question is, do I spend the money?  I don’t know..

On the job front, I have a phone interview tommorrow with the Conservation Resource Alliance in Traverse City, Michigan.  CRA specializes in streambank restoration and creation of wildlife corridors.  Of course, next week I’ll be in Chicago, interviewing with the Delta Institute for a position involving carbon aggregation.  Also, I received an email yesterday from The Nature Conservancy, asking me to apply for their carbon markets specialist position.  I’m not sure how they got my name, but I suspect that someone passed along a resume that I submitted for a climate change internship.  All three are strong prospects.  I’m leaning toward anything involving carbon markets, since this field is emerging and has the potential to be very satisfying and very lucrative.  Wish me luck..

Alright, time to head home.  I’ve been hanging out at Lisa’s place, since she has wireless internet and air conditioning. 

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