New Latin Lesson is up, just in time!  This one is on personal pronouns.

Methuselah has done a 5-minute video that does a great job of simply explaining the reasons for eating paleo/low-carb:

I’ve got a couple new low-carb articles floating around in my head, but no time to get them typed up right now, so they’ll have to wait.

Latest Latin Lesson is up, on the Second Conjugation.

Latin Lesson #15 is up, on neuter nouns of the third declension.  It’s a pretty easy one, really; there’s nothing very special about them.  I can’t believe I’m up to 15 of these things already, and actually staying more or less on schedule with them.  Soon it’ll be time to start working on the e-book and podcasts.

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My latest Latin lesson is up, starting in on the third declension, so I’m back on schedule.  When I started relearning the language, this is where I started having to work at it again.  The first two declensions and everything else up to that point came back to me pretty quickly when I reviewed it, but the third took some study.  Before long I’ll be learning most of  it as I go.

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Ok, I’m definitely back to daily blogging as of now.  Yes indeedy.  The Big Project that’s been consuming all my time and energy went live this weekend, and there’s still some debugging to do and additions to make, but the bulk of the pressure is gone.  I learned some things about myself and programming in the process, which I’ll talk about some other time.

New Latin Lesson #13: the vocative case and imperative mood—the two things you need to know to give commands.  Next lesson will start on the third declension, which is harder than the first two, but it’s also the one with the most useful words.  I keep wanting to put excerpts from prayers and scripture in my lessons, and I can’t because they always have a few third declension words in them.  You can read a lot of stuff without knowing the fourth and fifth declensions, but without the third it’s tough.

I got the other garden bed ready the other day, adding a few inches of compost and a bit of topsoil on top to make it easier to plant in.  I planted a row each of radishes and turnips in it, but it looks like birds made off with some of them.  If they don’t start showing up soon, I’ll have to replant and put chicken wire over it this time.

In the other bed (which had chicken wire from the start) radishes starting poking through a couple days ago, but I haven’t seen anything else yet.  This rain today should give things a boost, but now we need a warm, sunny day to work with the moisture.  Lows in the 30s like tonight’s forecast won’t speed things up much.

Latin Lesson #12 is up, on the pluperfect and future perfect tenses.

I woke up at 2:00am, too groggy to do any serious work for long, so I might as well get a blog post in.  My latest Latin Lesson is up, #11 on adverbs and the perfect tense.  After about 6-10 more lessons I think I’ll have covered enough to start translating parts of the Latin Mass, which should be fun.

Sometimes this blogging stuff just makes me shake my head.  My last post on FreeBSD was dry and off-topic, even for me.  I even felt kind of bad about posting it, figuring it wasn’t something my regular readers would care about, but it was what was on my mind at the time.  Thanks to a couple links from FreeBSD sites, my traffic has jumped the last three days, to where yesterday’s traffic was almost double my previous record.  As of 4am today I’ve already had more traffic than I had all day Monday.  Of course, those people probably aren’t going to stick around to read my usual posts on religion and gardening, so do they really count?  Not really, but it’s still kind of cool to see.

Anyway, time to get back to bed and try to get some more sleep!

I’m almost finished with the big project I’m working on, and then I’ll be able to get back to blogging at least daily.  In the meantime, there’s a new Latin Lesson in place: #10, on the principal parts of verbs, more uses of the ablative case,and interrogative particles.

Don’t forget the Chili Supper at St. Rose this Sunday!  It sounds like I’ll be manning the cash box again, so say hi on your way through.

We’ve got a big batch of chicken broth going today.  Next time we make it, I’ll take a bunch of pictures and write up how we do it.  The secret is the feet.

Good thing we didn’t start planting the garden during that warm spell earlier this month.  Things are frozen pretty solid out there right now.  My feet aren’t any too warm right here under my desk; I need to get Pepper to come in and sit on them.

Here’s something fun someone passed around on Twitter today, in lieu of actual creativity on my part: 8 Awesome Cars They Won’t Let You Buy.

I’m short on blogging time right now, because I’m finishing an overdue work project.  I have to take a break from it once in a while to let my brain cool, though, so I managed to squeeze out a short Latin Lesson, #9, for this week.

Just when I think I’ve really gotten a handle on the carbs for good, they sneak up and whack me a good one.  We went to my dad’s VFW soup dinner today, and it was the carb festival that public meals like that usually are.  I would have been okay, though, if I’d stopped at one small bowl of ham and bean soup—probably 20 carbs, ten more than I should have at one sitting, but manageable if I had no carbs for supper.  But then I was sitting there with my empty bowl watching people eat crackers and desserts, and decided to have another bowl of soup, twice as full as the first one.

After a nice coma-nap when we got home, I woke up feeling like my head was stuffed full of cotton—about a bushel of it.  So dumb.  Especially since I hit a new low on the scale this morning after holding steady for several weeks.   Based on a study Dr. Eades was talking about recently, I’ve been trying to increase the meat (or eggs) in my diet from the 6 ounces per meal recommended by Protein Power for a guy my size, to 10 ounces or so per meal.  That’s a lot of meat, even for a dedicated carnivore like me, but it got my weight loss moving again.  So why sabotage progress?  Just being human, I guess.

Time to go fold the Propers for tomorrow’s Mass, and get some sleep!