Already feeling the pleasure of not commuting back and forth to Salt Lake after only two days, I am loving the van challenge. Now I just need to find a place to park it long term, so I don’t have to drive it at all. Not something difficult to do in Park City, with its free shuttles and bike friendly attitude. The ideal spot would be dark, quiet and away from heavily trafficked roads. It also needs to be close enough to bike to after work, since the shuttles will have shut down by then. I look forward to doing research on this subject and cannot wait to find that perfect place. If it has to be the parking lot of a large retailer, I can accept that fate as my last resort.

What I need next is to make window coverings so that no light gets in to disturb my sleepy slumbering. I’m sure you didn’t come here to read about my to do list of van projects but I need to put it into a permanent public medium so that I actually do it.

Today I went and got a Park City library card and all I have to say is wow. That library is the most technologically advanced building full of books I have ever been in. It felt like I was given a glimpse of what the future of libraries hold. Now that I have my card, I can walk into the building, utilize a sound studio for audio recording, rent video equipment, craft with multiple 3D printers for five cents a gram, get on massive mac computers, and even check books out digitally, all without ever talking to a human being. To be honest, I love talking with humans, especially those who have chosen to work within the presence of books for their lively hood, talk about work matching your values. I value books, maybe I should work there. It was amazing to me to witness what money put to good use is capable of. I wish it happened more often, but I won’t rant now, I’m on too big of a book high.

I was at said library to get books that will help me with the upcoming no trash September challenge. No Impact Man was the book I wanted, but next to it, only one letter of the Dewey Decimal System off was Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff. That will be another bible of knowledge for the upcoming month. Why am I still typing? I have reading to do!