Put down that hot dog. It’s a crime and a sin. Well, it once was in the third century, the Catholic Church declared sausages a sin. A hundred years later, Constantine the Great, Rome’s Christian emperor, declared sausages illegal. Why? Because they were part of the lobertine rituals practiced at a pagan festival for the Roman god Lupercus. But the sausage prohibition didn’t work. Bootleg butchers continued to make sausages, and people ate them illegally behind closed doors. Eventually, the government gave up, and the sausage prohibition was repealed.

Well, what I thought was going to be a hard, neck-achy day has extended to a hard, neck-achy week. It takes a few days for the first round of fund exchanging to go through (sell this first before buying that, etc.). Plus, yours truly never did get caught up with Quicken. So guess what I’ve been working on tonight?

The best thing to come out of the summit is the approval of some purchases. The only drawback is Tarn put some prerequisites on the purchases, like clean out parts of the basement. Ug. It’s probably a good idea, since some of the stuff will go down there.

Tarn has her wisdom teeth extraction follow-up appointment tomorrow. She’s doing great: hopefully the doctor will agree. You know, she only had two wisdom teeth. The spots where the other two teeth would normally have been is empty (of teeth). Her doctor was joking that she is an evolved human.

A quick post about my favorite internet radio station, Aural Moon. If you like all forms of Progressive Rock, then you will likely enjoy Aural Moon. Since I’ve been listening (late 2002), I’ve actually purchased more CDs per month. I attribute this to the great influx of recordings I have never been exposed to previously. In particular, some the non-US bands are fabulous.

Time to light a candle and look at our finances. In particular, Tarn and I will look at our investment distribution, credit reports, charitible contributions, and other related things. It is sure to be a, er forgive me, taxing day. FYI, you can get a free credit report from each of the big three rating companies once a year by going to www.annualcreditreport.com. Unforunately not all states are able to do this yet. (See the schedule on the site.)

As Big B mentioned, yesterday I got this blog up and running for him. It is part of his Christmas present (2004’s — goodness I’m behind). WordPress seems to be doing the trick, but we won’t know for sure until later down the line.

I’m not sure the world is ready for the truth according to MRambler, but, I guess we’ll see and let the world comment as it sees fit……..