Dream journal

I'd been called in to consult with a guy who owned a gas station and wanted to make it more environmentally sustainable. Somebody had convinced him that the first thing he needed to do was lay squared-off logs all around the perimeter, but this would require 22,000 cubic feet of lumber, and he was worried that he'd have to take out an enormous business loan to afford that. This sounded fishy to me, so I paced off the dimensions of his gas station, which were only about 20 yards square. That's 60 feet each way, or 240 feet perimeter, and if the logs are 1 foot square, that's 240 cubic feet of lumber. I told him whoever had given him the previous advice was a con artist.