After both of us graduated from college I went back to our hometown to find a job.
My best friend Carl had other ideas, though, however she didn’t want to get a job at all, she wanted to transport out to the middle of nowhere and live off the land. I thought it was admirable, to try to leave mankind behind and live a life of solitude, but it honestly wasn’t an attractive lifestyle to me. Some years passed, and I stayed in contact with Carl. She asked me to come visit him last winter, and stay for a couple weeks in her hand-built log cottage. It sounded adore a fun plan at the time. I live in the deep south, and work for an air conditioner manufacturer. I’m not an HVAC tech and to be perfectly fair I don’t assume the first thing about air conditioner units. I work in accounting, so what I do is calculate payroll and expenses for the HVAC contractor execs. The only thing I assume about an air conditioner component is how to work the control unit. Carl had no air conditioner, of course, because she had no electricity! She absolutely lived off the land, and in the depths of Winter time the only source of heating she had was the brick fireplace. That was absolutely magnificent, I must admit, because she didn’t buy bricks, she made her own bricks out of clay, and used them to build the fireplace. We needed a lot of firewood to keep the fireplace blazing, which meant I had to spend a couple hours a day chopping wood. Never again!