While I'm here (I'm upstairs with the baby; she's watching a movie and I'm posting and the movie is about to end, so that's where this unaccustomed blogging time is coming from), let me quickly say that I've been listening to Eminem a lot recently.

I had a long post about this the other day which Internet Exploder ate, so I'm just tossing this bit off. My favorite thing about his music is the lyrics. You might not believe it, but Eminem is subtle. He's very clever and there's a certain word hound quality to his writing that I find very appealing. I bet you that Marshall Mathers is a killer Scrabble player.

Movie's over.

I'm trying to develop a habit, and it's awfully premature to be posting about it on the first day, but what the "heck", I'll post anyway. I signed up for one of those "Bible in a Year" sites and set myself up with a daily email reminder.

Let me tell you that February 23rd is not the best day to start on this task. At least, I hope it's not a typical day. Here's the reading: we start with the Beatitudes, which is nice, but that means that we're done with the Beatitudes. That was going to be the high point, I thought. Apparently not.

Then we go on a long and winding journey discussing the ornamentation of the high priest's ephod. WTF is an ephod, I'd never have known but for this; apparently it's the high priest's garb. So after like a page of the ephod, and a long discussion of how there should be a hem around the neckhole of the ephod so it doesn't fray, and pomegranates (!) and bells all along the skirts thereof. Oh yes; the priests should wear underwear -- "from the loins even unto the thighs shall reach."

Then details of the sacrifice necessary to consecrate the priests. A bullock and two rams, slaughtered, blood sprinkled about, and burned on the altar. There shall be a burnt-offering, and a wave-offering [apparently you pick it up and wave it at Jehovah?] and a heave-offering, which is not, as I thought, what happens when the smell of burning kidneys and liver makes you heave. Because apparently Moses gets to eat part of the heave-offering, and Aaron and his sons get the rest.

And finally, every day, you shall sacrifice on the altar two yearling lambs. That's a lot of lamb! I had to read the commentary to understand this bit, but duh, Christ.

Then we get back to the snappy stuff - Proverbs 13 has some good stuff in it: