Maccabees and ribeye.

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The day has seen nothing done, not completed. I called the finance company, the one that holds the title to my SUV, and asked if they would send a copy of the title. Well, it turns out that the DMV has to request a copy. The guy was from India, I am not sure if I got it all correct or if he understood what I was asking. I called back later, different guy, same foreign language. *click* I will have to simply hope this information is correct and get it in tomorrow. Nothing else I had hoped to do was done.

I am counting my nickles as everything seems to be going astray. I have a little set off, just enough to try and get everything paid, even in a worst case scenario. I hate times like these. Of course, if things come off without a hitch, I might well be ready to start saving as I had hoped. Moving is a lot more expensive than the brochure promised! :p

Tonight I had ribeye, green beans, and of course milk. A little butter on the green beans adds a lot to the meal. And, I tried something I had heard mentioned recently. As I said, I am using a cast iron skillet for all of my cooking. Well, stove cooking. Someone had suggested that a little butter in the pan, to give it a nice thin coating, would make the steak top notch. Guess what, my neighbor was correct. That was one of the most delicious steaks I have had in some time. The steak at Sizzlers was good, if a bit thin. But this was superior. The beef here seems to be every bit as good what I had in Iowa, and the prices go up and down just like there too. Now that I know how to cook a right proper pan steak, I am in like flint, this way.

My reading continues. I am in the book of 1 Maccabees 13. This is rather interesting reading. The Jews sure had many troubles then, as now. So too, do all people. But few people have remained a single, historic, religious community anywhere near the length of time they have. Modern Egyptians, for example, cannot even read their ancestor's languages, Babylonians are no more having become many things to finally be Iranian or Iraqi peoples and again with no sense of their own history. Many people's, such as the Egyptians, probably are not even necessarily related to their national historic peoples.

Reading the Old Testament opens up the eyes. It also calls into question many of the current Christian practices. When Christ indicated that He was not here to end the law, but to fulfill it, I think many Christians have taken a very wrong stance on that. Though Jesus did set aside the mosaic law, from marriage to debt to feasts from the law, and He set aside forbidden foods, He did not set aside the reason or purpose for them, or even set them aside completely. As with food, though pigs are now allowed (to Christians) and circumcision is not required (though due to health reasons, it is encouraged even by the secular medicants of today), being healthy, living wisely, and such were all interwoven with these laws and that prescription has not changed.

Now, figuring out, precisely, what is still considered against the Word, from the Old Testament, is not a simple thing. But at times, it is not as difficult as it might seem. While reading the bible, things will come to you, while you read it or later. Things from the New Testament came to me while well into the reading of the Old Testament. And, I do believe, reading the bible begins to change things inside one's life and mind. Patterns emerge, Christ in us sets Himself up a better place near our eyes the windows of our soul for food from the reading, and my actions have become much more measured. I can see, now, more as I go on, why I was so enamored of the books as a young one.

Tomorrow I have five things I really need to do. I need to get to my storage unit and try to find my social security card (necessary for obtaining a drivers license). I will take all other required data, and upon finding the ss card, I need to apply for that. Second, I need to go to DMV and have them begin the process of obtaining a copy of the title. I then need to place a few advertisements for this apartment physically, and then try to figure out how to advertise it online. Then I need to get the rifle sight moved a bit more. And finally, the fun thing if I can get the rest of it done in time, I want to get target practice in before it gets too dark. It is raining today, though, and may be tomorrow as well. Still, there is always a chance to find enough time to see if it is on target or not. I really HAVE to do these things. Time is running out, quickly, and potentially expensively, on some of these things.

Okay, yeah, I have been hiding out. I have not been able to function well. In part because of my native exhaustion, in part because of the addition of the medicine. Plus the simple feeling, as things started to slip, that I was powerless. I fell, and have been down for about a week. I need, again, to rise to the occasions and finish this. Then all I will have to worry about is finishing my application for college and getting that going. Still, I am going to be honest. I am still doing better here than I ever have in Iowa, and for any length of time, other than when I was on Ritalin. I do not want to let that slip from my hands. Must... work... harder...