Quiet House

Well, the rest of the family has went to San Antonio and Corpus Christi for a few days. This leaves me home alone. This house sure is quiet with no one else around. I seem to get all my chores done before 8am.

I wish I had a good book to keep me company. I wonder why it is that when you are really busy you find the best books and have to work at getting them read but when there is nothing going on there is nothing interesting around to read.

Drake is posting updates of their trip on my facebook account. I am really loving that I can "watch" them during the day. Technology is a great thing if used properly.

OK, I guess that is enough rambling for this morning.

Social Experiment

I had a thought of a really interesting book/social experiment. I think it would be interesting to see if a person could work their way across the US without money. You would have to find people willing to let a stranger work for some cash or willing to give you cash. You would be able to have a car but would need gas money as well as food money.

I wonder if a person could do it. I know that I would be skeptical of a stranger asking for some work. Would I allow someone like that to sweep my floor or mow my grass for a few dollars? I hate to say that it would depend on how that person looked on the outside. If they were clean-cut, I might consider it. If they were scraggly.....I'm not so sure.

If I were to take on this project, and I admit I would be hard pressed to take it on, I would start with a full tank of gas and a full cooler of food. I would stop in small towns before I totally ran out of gasoline. I would check in with the local police and explain what I was doing in the town. I'm not sure what kind of stores I think would make good places to try for work.

What do you think? Does it sound interesting? Would you be willing to help a stranger out?