Two by Noon

It was with myself and fellow treeplanters Kevin Barkman and Myron Seuss, I think, that the phrase "two by noon" started acquiring currency. If we could have two thousand trees in the ground by 12:00 p.m., we knew we were off to a good start and could feel confident that we would come back to camp with an acceptable number that day--usually over 4000.

Inspired by a recent Colbert Report mention of the proverb (credited to Benjamin Franklin), "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," I've been getting myself back on to a night-time sleep schedule, with an alarm set to wake me up at ten minutes before eight o'clock. This year, my goal has been to practice an average of two hours every day, but due to a busy academic schedule (and some unplanned laziness), I've fallen behind and now need to catch up. Well, I'm going to use "two by noon" as my guideline for pulling up the bootstraps. I'll try to get the mandatory two "new" hours done by 12:00 p.m., leaving the rest of the day for backfilling the practice-hours-debt that I'd accrued over the last month and a half.

I'll let you know when the debt's paid off.