Progress on the culinary side… (*edit*)

We have 2 full fridges, 1 small one and a stand up freezer and there is NEVER enough space to store stuff. We buy things on sale and stock up. Then I make the menus according to what we have.

i have a small chest freezer and it’s full. never seem to have enough space. the more space you have, the more you fill it up. take care,

So, you have the day off, eh? Sweet. 🙂

What are you most proud of in your life?

ryn: The religious view of marriage is that it’s forever, I think. Most religions allow a union to be dissolved only under specific conditions. The religious/civil disconnect exits in the Catholic Church, who will not re-marry a divorced Catholic without a annulment. The discussion outside of its religious context is complex enough, though. A friend of mine at Oxford who teaches on marriage and society informed me that the first recorded use of the word “marriage” occurs during the Roman Empire, who interestingly had two forms of marriage, the conventio in manum and the sine manu. (The difference between the two was that in the former, the wife became part of the husband’s family, while in the other she stayed in her original family, under authority of her father. So there is even precedent for separate but equal.) The terms, however, was not associated with same-sex relationships, even though the relationships themselves were common, as documented Suetonius in the Life of Nero 28-29; Martial Epigrams 1.24, 12.42; etc. Writings from the year 342 show that the emperors Constantius and Constans were the first to specifically declare same-sex marriage to be illegal. <

RYN: Excellent point! I hadn’t considered divorce. The Catholic church has annulments, but the rules for that are very, very specific. It also makes all children born during that marriage bastards (in the original definition). I’m not sure if that’s legally recognized or not, but it is very different from a divorce. We should take the divorce system and apply it to marriage. Everyone getsa civil union by law, and if people want, they can go through the church and have a marriage. I would really love to go and protest people’s marriages because I think they’re stupid though, just for the hell of it. Lots of hugs, John

ryn: I always found it amazing that music that was purely mechanical in its recording and reproduction could have such an amazing sound quality. Does any of today’s equipment get repaired, or are we strictly a throw-away society now?

Ooh, always expect to get payed for your work! #1- do it because you have love for the work and put your passion into it. #2- expect and ask to get paid for your time. This is the basics to making your own business work. Unless you expect to not make a living off it- that is exactly what you will get- a lack of money to make a living off of what you do. Maybe you don’t want to make a living off it? I don’t know. RYN: Yup- the fires are right here- one small city over. No crisis for us because we aren’t in the canyon areas… but I have several clients who were in the danger zone with mandatory evacuations. One client’s house showed up on the local news because their neighbor’s home burned to the ground and they were untouched. Such is the way of these wild fires. I went into the wild fire area (the outskirts) and the smoke in the air in the exact areas burning looked like a thick fog bank. Scary stuff.