Up and at them! No! Up and atom!

January 31, 2011 8:04 AM 1/31/11

The goggles! They do nothing!

*ahem*

Anyways I’m awake and the daughter is long off to school.

Now it’s time to try and find something to eat, take my vitamins, and then out to the workshop to watch the CCNA videos again and study.

Need to do this every morning or I’ll fall back asleep and waste several hours.

*wibble* But the dishes need doing and the carpet is dirty and there’s dogfood tracked all over the living room and the dog needs a trim...and...and...and...

*sigh*

Off to the workshop with me...

The eyes have it!

So I managed to get through the first 7 of 31 videos in the first part of the CCNA CBT stuff. At 35 - 45 minutes a piece there's only so many I can get through in one sitting. I figure if I can manage ten a day that's good progress. (Likely I can do better than that though.) I sent a message to the course coordinator to see if they'll let me audit the CCNA class again or not. Likely not but I now have transport so it would really only be a scheduling issue if it happens.

We're fairly prepared here for the supposed blizzard that's going to hit us in the next couple of days or so. I still need to bring in more wood but we have food and drink in case something happens. And we have enough wood inside and out to survive if the power goes out for any time. Though I'd be concerned about the pipes freezing so we'd have to crack those open and let them run if need be.
( Hope Scarybaldguy is going to be okay... )

One more thing - The Food Safety Bill

Oh hey! I just remembered that I figured out a solution to the Food Safety Bill for small growers!

The cap is $500k in sales right? Well that's not too hard for a small farm to hit in actuality so the FDA is going to be in everybody's noses.

But here's the solution - do the same thing large corporations sometimes do to avoid regulation. Break up into smaller corporations.

1) Subdivide the land between family members of adult age.

2) Incorporate each piece of land as a separate farming corporation.

3) Manage the finances of each farming corporation either through a common offsite accounting service (preferred) or on separate computers. Keep all monies separate, keep all paperwork separate, establish a common rental service for existing equipment that each corporation pays a rental fee to for continued use. (This rental service is also a separate parcel of land.)

4) Establish a rented farmstand that all farms can sell at for a fee.

It won't work for everybody but it will work for quite a few. And as long as the sales of each farm isn't above 500k the FDA will be unable to do anything without getting several legal proceedings underway.

How's them apples? ;-)