Fry day.

 I have a day off but I wont be sitting around or sleeping in. Yes, you guessed I'm off to Fielding  the Manawatu. My darling is coming down for Valentines day tomorrow. The Catholic church remembers Cyril and Methodius. Cyril made up his own alphabet called Cyrillic.

In the Gospel Mark 8-1 Jesus feeds the big crowd of 4000 people. There were no supermarkets back then and everybody had to make their bread from scratch. It took all day. This they would dip in Olive oil and if lucky add a bit of dried salty fish or fresh fruit. So it was a big deal to just sit on the grass and be fed. A real picnic. Stretch out and burp, just lay there watching the clouds drift overhead....I think Jesus realized he could have a lot of hangers on taking advantage of his kindness thinking they are on to a good thing; so he then tells them to go away and he jumps in a boat and whizzes away out of sight.

Looking at the news it seems that sewage processing plants don't need a WOF. So Wellington's discharge seems due to improper maintenance. This could happen else where very easily. So no one cares about pumping shit into the sea but the government wants to spend a billion to make a port for gas imports. Meanwhile we have huge stockpiles of coal at Huntly and Uranium on the West Coast. Not like we are going to pollute anyone. The westerlies will just blow it over the Pacific Ocean. Hmmph.

Well I better get moving and run the vacuum around and mop the floors.

Have fun and plan something special for your love tomorrow.

  

 Don't be like Soloman who worshipped pagan gods to please his wives.

Did you know that if it wasn't for Christianity we would all be worshipping pagan gods still. 

I finished Mark's book about 'The subtle art of not giving a hoot". I see he has another book ..."Why we should give a hoot".

I think his advice is excellent. He embodied a lot of Christian ideals but in the end floundered about trying to explain why we shouldn't fear death, using a more eastern approach to what happens. That's ok, he's still young.

Sorry have to go. Don't sin and find happiness by making an effort.

Thinking about wastewater.

 

You can swim in the harbour. Just be wary if your flight crashes in the sea.

Jesus makes a comment about the sewer in today's reading.

"Whatever goes into a man from the outside can not make him unclean; because it does not go into his heart but passes into the sewer". Mark 7:14

I wonder why technology hasn't focused on the problem of wastewater. In the 21st century we are still using a system from the 18th century. In spaceships they drink their own pee! Poos is really just manure. Why can't each house have its own little processing plant? After extracting and reusing the water and fertilizer the rest just goes in a little bag into the wastecare bin! 

The immediate problem is wastewater and rain water mixing in the under ground pipes. That is what overloads the sewage processing plants. 

Have fun but don't sin..." For it is from within that evil intentions emerge: fornification, theft,murder, adultery, avarice,malice, deceit,indecency,eny,slander,pride,folly." Mark 7:14