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Today I actually made time for that uni work. At first I thought I would just work from home, since I had the work computer here. However, it took about thirty seconds of trying to look at comments from two different computers and the paper itself to decide that two monitors is not enough, so I packed up the computer and some lunch and hopped on my trike for the first time all month to head into the office, where I managed to make a good start on the revisions, starting with the easy bit--looking at the edits both reviewers suggested and either make the same changes in my document or make some other change that also fixes the problem. So far I have managed to do this for the abstract and introduction sections.

Doing that plus a short break to apply for two more administration/technician sorts of positions at the uni (on the off chance that I don't get the one I applied for back in May that the hiring committee will start thinking about again in a couple of weeks, when they get back from their holidays) took just over four hours, which I decided was enough for a single day when I am unemployed.

So I went home and took an hour's nap, and got up on time to have dinner before picking some strawberries from the patch and then heading down to the bottom of the property to check on those åkerbär I found on the weekend. Sure enough, they were now ready. Yum! I was able to find about 15 of the berries, most of which were really really small, but each one is totally packed with flavour. These berries have a shape rather like a raspberry, made of little individual globes. Most of the berries had only two little sub globes (which is what I meant by "small", but one was a fully formed clump of at least eight little sub globes. Wow, was that one good. It will be interesting to compare future years with this one--there are hundreds of the plants there, but only a tiny percentage of them are growing berries this year. I wonder if this is typical?

Then I helped lord_kjar to move the longest of the big stones into a position around the deck, where they can serve as a bench until and unless we need them elsewhere. Then we tested the new plow we bought yesterday. Even though one of the two cutting disks that precede the plow itself doesn't rotate the tool is still wonderfully effective, doing just what it is supposed to do--taking a nice deep chunk of soil/plant cover and flipping it over. In the process he occasionally exposed small stones, so I followed after the plow and picked them up and carried them to the edge of the field. Sometimes he turned up a stone too big for me to pick up, so he would pick up the plow, turn the tractor around and use the forks to pick it up and carry it away. Once the stone he found was too big for him to dig out, though he tried for a while. Therefore tomorrow he will call a friend with a larger tractor, and see if he still wants to come play.