I’m having a hard time narrowing down a single blog topic lately, so I’ll continue to riff on various things until I do.

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Angel wrote about our experience selling pulled pork sandwiches at Trade Days, so I don’t have to.  I’ll just add that although we didn’t sell all the meat or make a lot of money, I’m glad we did it.  We learned a few things, and who knows how many people have our name rattling around in the back of their minds now and might think of us for pork in the future.  I suppose that’s the way of all marketing: you have to spend a certain amount of time or money just building name-recognition, even if it doesn’t involve direct sales at the time.

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My only quibble would be that I’d move mimes up to #2.  (From GraphJam.com)

Nice find by Quincy Pundit, which explains in a way anyone can understand just how far off President Obama’s unemployment predictions have been since the stimulus bill was passed:

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New Latin Lesson is up.  (In less than a week this time!)  This one’s on demonstrative adjectives.  They’re kind of a pain because of some odd spellings, but they’re used a lot so we have to learn them.  Next lesson I’m going to start on the third conjugation of verbs.  It’s kind of like the third declension in nouns: more words than the first two have, and more irregularities.

I also changed the design template of the site.  Now that I know people are using it, I figured I should get away from the default look and go with something more useful.  Comments are welcome.

I’d been getting kind of bummed lately about my Latin lessons, because it didn’t seem like I was getting any traffic to them.  Then I discovered I couldn’t see the traffic because I’d never installed the Google Analytics code on them.  I did that Saturday, and Sunday I had twice as many hits on my Latin pages as on my blog!

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Many bloggers take it easy on Friday by offering lists of links, so who am I to argue? Here are some interesting Church-related things I’ve come across lately:

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Finally churned out another Latin lesson, this one on numerals and partitives.  Partitive is just a fancy term for saying something is part of something else:  “one of the men,” “part of the army,” etc.

Next lesson, demonstrative adjectives like “this” and “that,” which also serve as third person pronouns.

A cell phone is a great thing to have—except when you actually have to deal with it.  It provides a nice feeling of security when you’re driving, knowing that if you have engine trouble, you won’t have to walk to the nearest house and borrow a phone.  And it’s nice when you’re at the hardware store and you realize you don’t know what size bolt you need to finish that project.

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