Tomorrow is supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far. Of course, this is also the day we have a ditch witch trencher scheduled to arrive before 11am so that we can trench the irrigation for the backyard. At least I'm not digging 1000 linear feet of 12-18" trenches by hand. That's the other option. Yeah, I did the calcs today. We need about 1000 feet of irrigation line for our yard. It's just too large. Right now the yard looks like some random art installation or vandalism gone awry. There about 85 little red flags placed in what looks like no particular order but is actually the path of digging for tomorrow.

I tried to run today but the achilles is kinda f'ed. I did my exercises instead and hoped for the best. Then I washed dishes and listened to last weekend's "This American Life" about Hemant Lakhan, a third rate businessman who was asked by a phony millionaire to find weapons for him to purchase. Lakhan, always wanting to roll with the big dogs, tried for 22 months to purchase one after promising hundreds of different weapons to this guy, who happened to be an FBI informant. After failing for almost 2 years Lakhan tried one more path to find a weapon, some Ukrainian weapons manufacturer. They in turn informed the authorities who hatched a scheme to sell him a phony weapon and in desperation he bought it. The story is a lot more complicated and horrendous than just this, but basically the government created a customer and a product for this guy and now he's looking at spending the final years of his life in prison.

God Bless 'Merica.