Very excited about life

I had a little talk with my sister, Elaine, last night about finances and living plans for my next step after this North Carolina gig. I was just looking at some housing concepts by an Australian architecture group online, and got started thinking about a tiny little living space that would fit on a pickup truck bed, and could be attached to two canoes, catamaran-style. So you could drive it in your truck to the water's edge, and then paddle it out to an island and live there for a little. And after it was set up on the island, you could use the two canoes as transport (back to the truck, and to a nearby town for food) and recreation vehicles. Or you could just float it as a houseboat when you felt like it. It would of course be super-light, probably a stick-frame wrapped in stretched canvas (so you could paint on it, and it would be like living in three-dimensional fine art). I could build it almost for free I bet, just from scraps and miscellaneous hardware. The canvas would be the expense. It would be a multi-function sleep-space, cook/eat-space, read/write-space, shower space (a solar shower with a showerhead on the exterior of the building gravity-fed from a solar-heated tank on the roof that you would fill up once you reach the island). I guess a 6x8 footprint. Maybe an aluminum roof for romantic rain sounds.

In any case, I'm going to sketch it up in the evenings this next week, while I'm living at Pickards Mountain (hopefully getting a lot of trench-digging done on the house site). There's more to the idea that makes it a bit more practical; the canoe-catamaran/island idea is just one blue-sky facet of a bigger diamond.

The equally exciting part is that the way I'm figuring it, living as a single person with no pets, children, or wives, shouldn't require even close to a full-time job. If I can live off of $1,000/month (including health insurance, car insurance, gas, food, miscellaneous, cell phone bill, etc...) then I only need $250 a week. And if I can pull in $300/week, then I can put the extra $2,400/yr into savings. Of course I need to gather enough funds in the next year to buy a truck, and start a garden (and get some land). I gotta win a lot of contests.

"What about if I want to have a family!?"
Well that would change everything, wouldn't it. So I will look forward to that change someday, but I don't see a point in planning my current life around it (just need to keep saving,but my grandma went through the depression so she has taught me well).