A Vague Concept of Economics

Just a quick Friday evening update... I spent half the day running around, overnighting the batch of eBay'd matsutake to Virginia, researching suspended ceiling components and 18V cordless tools at the local home-improvement mega-store, and doing minor errands hardly worthy of mention even in this ephemeral medium.

Of more interest, perhaps, is a book proposal burbling, about which it is considered bad luck to say much until it becomes a reality. This started when a shadowy concept of economics formed in my head yesterday as I sat painfully on the cold rocky ground, nursing a sheet-metal-bloodied and nettle-tingled hand whilst slowly retrofitting rodent exclusion flashing onto my building: rather than spend the next few months engaged in painful and inefficient attempts to do the kinds of work at which I am, at best, mediocre, and at worst, unmotivated, I could -- now get this -- make money at something I'm good at and then actually pay someone else to do the other stuff. That got me thinking about writing again, and well, that's all I'll tell you about the project at the moment.

But it's a fun one.