august update

Since my last post, I've been busy with all sorts of stuff. We moved old residents out of the apartment complex, oversaw the cleaning and maintenance of the apartments across the span of a week, then moved a whole load of new residents in the following week. I spent many many hours working but everything was timely because I took off to Berkeley for an Energy and Environmental Economics conference for a week.

Berkeley was a great time, the city carries a strong and unique culture, it has a lot of interesting little stores, plenty of great food at cheap prices, and much to see and do. I spent all 5 week days in conference in the morning and afternoon but had the rest of the day to myself to roam around the streets and try out the many great restaurants and hole-in-the-wall joints serving cheap eats.

The conference ended Friday and I headed over to Hsien Shoong's place in Pleasant Hill. He was a very skilled tour guide the next two days as I visited the many tourist attractions San Francisco has to offer. I'll post pictures of the many places I visited in my next post. I got back Monday and spent all of that day getting life back together. There was plenty of laundry, grocery shopping, catching up with sleep and cleaning to do.

The goal is to kick it into gear and pump out this replication paper I have been putting off all summer. I made significant progress this afternoon and plan to continue such productivity over the weeks to come. I decided to sign up for an extra class for the fall quarter in the economics of aviation and that means I will be busier than I thought in the fall which is giving me a bit more motivation to pump out this replication paper ahead of schedule.

I've mentioned Crazy Love, by Francis Chan in a previous post, but I haven't talked up the book and done in justice here. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND anyone to get a hold of the book and read it, slowly and thoughtfully; then, to take positive action in the direction the book compels. I've been reading it with my bible study and it took me a while to get into the groove of the book, but once Chapter Three hit, it was hard to ignore the points he was making. Read it with friends, read it alone, but in the end, think about how you can be apart of what the book highlights as what we've been called to do.