March 20, 2012
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Patchwork Blog
G’morning! It looks like it might be another beautiful day. It’s been hitting 80 here in Michigan. Which is… unbelievably odd. But then, we had barely any winter, at all, either… while Europe (which usually barely has any winter) got put in the deep freeze and buried in snow. Articles about how the White Cliffs of Dover are cracking off and falling into the sea. How the churches couldn’t stand the temps and are falling apart after the thaw. How even the Colosseum was damaged by the extreme winter.
Now, while it’s 80 in March, here? Arizona is under a foot of snow. I don’t know… you tell me… but the validity of a polar magnetic shift is starting to sound more and more plausible. I had suggested at one time that it would be the ‘excuse’ for the disappearance of the raptured folk (they were incompatible with the magnetism and ‘fell off’ in the shift), but it wasn’t… I didn’t really BUY it, just threw it out there, y’know? But I don’t know. It’s crazy out there. Millions of fish washing up on Scandinavian beaches dead. Thousands of birds flying the wrong way. Lost penguins washing up in Australia. Repainting directionals at airports because North isn’t where North used to be. It… is strange. Just sayin’.
Speaking Of… I was also reading this article from Discovery, and it says: “Over the weekend, physicists and engineers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) nudged proton beam energies to a new record: 4 Tera-electron volts (TeV). This record comes shortly after CERN announced last month they’d be cranking up the juice through 2012. …CERN aims to collide the first protons at this energy in April.“ So what’s in April? Pesach/Passover/Possible Rapture. And they’ve only been messing with this thing for a year and a half or so, but it’s been that long since stuff has gone wonky (about the time of the SMS’s kick-off of seal six – cataclysm). So if I was wondering about the magnetic shift? It might be because of THIS. And in fact, we might bring it on ourselves.
FANTASTIC Blog. Today my very good friend FiberAddict wrote a FANTASTIC blog about deception in these times. I almost was gonna ask if I could post it here, today, instead of writing something far less moving, myself. But then all this news-ish stuff came in… but MAN, was that a good blog. I highly recommend everyone read it, though. She got on one heckuva good soapbox. We’ve needed that, lately!
War Since… This morning I read an interesting article in The Guardian which says “Stockholm Peace Institute warns world is in new arms race: The global arms trade has grown by nearly a quarter over the last four years“. Which pricked my memory. We’re a quarter of the way into 2012. Four years ago was 2008. When was my SMS’s red horse seal? January-June 2008 kicked off the beginning of war. The news just confirmed Yehovah’s Six-Month Suggestion, yet again. For the record.
More War? Another BIG news item… The Global March on Jerusalem. Ironically, it’s slated for SEVEN days before Pesach/Passover. According to the article: “GMJ, scheduled for March 30, 2012, is an anti-Israel publicity stunt that aims to have a million people marching on Israel’s borders from all the surrounding countries – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt – with the aim of reaching Jerusalem. Concurrently, demonstrations are planned in the Palestinian-administrated territories and against Israel’s diplomatic missions in major cities throughout the world.” If this doesn’t set off every warning light you have, I don’t know what will. That’s just CR-azy!!!
Creating Docs. I’m at it again! Yesterday I realized that we are doing different books than I had on our schedule, and that I’ll have to fix that. But as I went into Excel, I found that – every year – I made a new chart for art, composer, crafts… reinventing the wheel. And if we didn’t hit something the year before, it got buried in my archives, never seen again. Which isn’t… efficient. Good. So I condensed all hymns to a master list. All crafts are already here on my blog – I don’t need it twice. And then I was doing up a composer page… and realized that the book we’re working out of only has TEN composers in it. It doesn’t even have Brahms, hello! So I went to Amazon and found free e-reader resources that were far more comprehensive… and I had to fill in all these composers around my ten, and then I realized that it stopped at 1910… so I did up the second half of the page as little ‘highlights’ – with the 12 most famous/groundbreaking musicians of each decade up thru 1990. ((And then I ran out of room.)) So each little box can be cut out and pasted right into our Book of Centuries. I’ll have to upload that and share it with you.
In Other News… I have this *HUGE* discussion going on over at FB about e-readers. I think there’s something like 30 comments, now… But see, I found this book of composers on Amazon, and it’s 504 pages but FREE to an e-reader. And I really want to use it… and Lamb’s Shakespeare is free to an e-reader, too… but the only e-reader I have is Free Kindle for PC, and I am not going to teach school from this desk. So… whatever I get HAS to have 3G, since there’s no wi-fi anywhere nearby… but I’m thinking maybe I need to break down and get an e-reader. I don’t need all the bells and whistles, but just something I can hold and read from on the sofa. I looked at Nooks, laptops, notebooks, and I’m leaning toward the Kindle Keyboard 3G. We’ll see. Spending $100 on something that frivolous is hard for me to even consider.
Anyhoo… I need to get a move on. Lydia and I have to finish our state entries (this week is MinneSOta!) and I have holds at the library to pick up… and then I think I want to have lunch el fresco, so I gots t’set up the patio furniture and wash the table off out there. But I like the idea of getting out there. ((grins))
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I do think something a little more mobile will help with teaching for sure. I didn’t have this technology growing up in homeschool.. only used a pc for typing and book reports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_oscillation <– This is one of the causes people usually cite for the weather pattern we’re seeing, along with La Nina/El Nino or the ‘arctic dipole anomoly’. The thing that amazes me though is that they often say this is the why our weather is this way, but they still don’t understand the how or the why that causes this anomoly. It could be connected yes, but so can solar activity. We’ve been through a little ice age before, but we’re now reaching that period of peak solar and volcanic activity on the rise. Things will get hotter. Couple that with the other weird things happening in the core and there’s something going on, most likely related.
You should see how badly English Heritage and other organizations that own the grade monuments and buildings are hurting for money over there in the economy. They’ve raised prices upon entry and practically beg you to pay a bigger fee to help them support trying to keep these ancient buildings standing.
Bravo to Fiber. I wanted to add a point… people seem to be under the impression that one goes to church to be with people.. as if it’s a sort of social club. It’s not.
Re: e-Reader…..Um…..I’m going to email you.
SO many things are going down right now – it’s making my head spin! The march is just the cherry on top, isn’t it? I can’t help but wonder if the Witnesses won’t make an appearance soon….maybe in response to the march?
Cagey – Yes, they’re worse off than we are because they don’t have our gov’t raising their financial roofs.
Fiber – My thoughts EXACTLY. Tradition holds that we set a place at the table for Elijah for Passover, because that’s when he’s slated to come again. In fact, we even open the door and look for him as part of tradition (I know you know that, but others reading here might not). So when do I expect the two witnesses of Revelation (11:3-6), most likely Moses & Elijah? On Passover. And with this broo-ha-ha simmering and getting ready to happen in Jerusalem, what better scenario, than to have the two witnesses (who roast people with fire from their mouths) show up in the middle of this mess and fry some ‘peaceful’ protestors? It’d be quite the story!
If we’re gonna be taken before then, I’m glad to go. But it would be kinda cool to be able to witness the Two, you know?
As for the Kindle thing, email and FB are about as far into technology that I wanna go. BUT I’ve been thinking that it would be really nice to have a small electronic notebook to keep things on, references and such, and it would be nice to be able to do some writing without having to be in another room from the kids. Our main computer is in Dav’s studio/work out room and the kids really aren’t allowed in there. But to have one with books on it, I still don’t like that idea. It means I’d have to be staring at a screen all day in order to read a book and that gives me a headache. But I do like to write short stories and I’m trying to write a teen fiction. It would be really great NOT to have to write it long hand just because I need to be in the same room as the kiddos, you know?