Hit golf balls yesterday. I am not the next contender for golf champion of the universe, no matter how much I believed I would be. That's a thing about me: I think I will be the best at something until I try it, then I get frustrated and mope. Pretty cute, huh?
Had a little get together the other night. Fire going, beers and wine, conversation, ping pong. It was quite pleasant. We talked a lot about the Terry Gross/Gene Simmons interview, except for a long time in the beginning I was referring to the Terry Gross/Richard Simmons interview. I was set straight, but not before confusing the pants off of some partygoers.
Went to a kids "thang" yesterday with the girls and some friends. There was car painting, bead threading, music, 8mm film loops where you could make your own and they would get spliced into the ongoing loop, dancing. It was mighty fun and the girls had a great time, which was the main thing. I'm having to face the fact that yes, we do have a wonderful house but the girls need to leave it a lot and get out into the world and do things. They get cooped up here and fall into old bad habits; out there, there's new stimuli to interact with. It helps them stay interested.
Then went golfing with Jeff. That was fun and frustrating. What was even more fun was having beers and talking business with him afterwards. We went to Hopworks on Powell- they had some truly awesome beers that they brew right there in the building. Fresh, well made beer is just unlike anything else. We had a bunch of good ideas too... he's been working for some bumbling construction company, so he's got a head full of what not to do, in addition to the construction skills. We both agreed we should probably take some, cringe, business classes. Shiver! But, if you want to run a business, it seems like a thing to do.
Anyway, our business idea is a remodel/new construction company that does green, LEED certified work. We want to be affordable, so we were thinking have a grant writing/finance research arm of the business; do systems design (that'll be me) for high efficiency electrical systems; portfolio research, to determine the best spread of technology to increase home efficiency; and have a good passive solar arm, a group of people who know their passive inside and out and can tell right off the bat what a house needs to run tight. I would also love to have a cool architect on board, someone who can design shit that will constantly remind the owner that their decision to greenify was a great idea, and give them a good feeling inside. So much of this stuff is insulation and shingles, stuff that really only hits once at first and then again every now and then on the energy bill, but you get used to that. I want something, even kinetic would be rad, that reminds the owner that they are on the good-guys side. Something like translucent rainbarrel trombe wall: you see it fill up with rain and retain heat in the winter, instead of all that water going down the drain and the heat bouncing off the wall into the yard. That kind of thing. Jeff also mentioned landscaping, which I just realized is a great external insulator. Lots of research to do, lots to think about. I'm excited! Too bad the renewable energy systems program required me to fucking drive all over town. I'll just have to roll my own.
Here's your eyecandy for the day. Check the rainbow! (This was just randomly found on flickr)
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