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+Okay.
+Let's think more critically.
+Manager, Cosmologist, come out.
+What are your questions?
+- Is this farm the right place to be, geographically?
+- Should I be in Missouri/KS/OH instead?
+- Should I be in El Paso, Streator, Eureka, Minonk, Lincoln, Clinton, Riverton, Atlanta, Hopedale, Delevan, instead? Pekin, Metamora?
+- What home-based work can I take on?
+- Is farming really the right thing? Small town might be more appropriate.
+
+Take in turn.
+
+## Is this farm the place to be?
+This farm has always been identified as in the middle of nowhere. It was suggested when bought that it needed a grain elevator installed.
+It has no close market opportunities. It has little community serendipity.
+It has little biological diversity, most of it has been converted to tilled acres.
+No, is the unfortunate, but likely answer.
+
+## Should I be in MO/KS/OH?
+MO/KS are less economically oppressive and less regulated. Land taxes are lower. Fertility, also, is lower.
+The particular diocese should be evaluated.
+
+## Should I be in El Paso, Streator, Eureka, Minonk, Lincoln, Clinton...
+Maybe.
+Why one over the other though?
+We have some ties in El Paso but they are not strong. There is (seemingly) a thriving Church there. Lots of economic activity. TH Fab.
+I don't know much about Streator/Eureka/Minonk but these seem to be functioning communities.
+
+## What home-based work can I take on?
+_That which can be done adjacent to the home and would lend itself towards the involvement of children_
+_Ideally actually contributes value to a local community_
+
+- Furniture
+- Timber framing is probably _not_ the right thing for a truly home-based business, unless making kits
+- Kombuchery
+- Fabricating / Machining _something_
+- Auto repair
+- Custom machinery fabrication
+- Blacksmithing
+- Mechanical Design
+- Art is _hard_ to get rolling. I am not really committed to this, in all honesty.
+- Animal husbandry
+- Feed mill
+- 
+
+## Is farming really the right thing?
+You may see the rightness in it, but often the right idea comes to the wrong person.
+
+
+
+## Errata
+I have no anchor
+except this one which is crippling
+if i let it go
+to where will I drift...
+
+At Lynx
+the lesson i needed to learn was maybe not so much that I hate this sort of work
+but that i hate what work has become
+when will
+
+agh
+
+there is shop work to be done
+maybe ill just do that