progress...

Saturday - laundry and coding.

• the data models and stuff for TeamWench's websites have been upgraded to my latest codebase, which itself got the improvement of password-security.  now i just need to "negotiate" with other TW webmasters on how to integrate and how much of the existing system is kept.
• laundry - about 4 loads

Sunday - laundry and cleaning and CHILI!

• sorted through all of the mail acquired since before faire started, finally shredding most of the current and getting into shredding the backlog
• in spite of calling them on several occasions, we still seem to be getting at least 2 (each) hassles from the alleged "no hassle" capital one
• consolidated living room back into breathable state, with space to vacuum and bring in a free-cycle acquired chair that now makes a nice reading space by the stereo up there
• got wife to put all her tools away from her faire-season garb-making projects (hammers and stuff for grommets, etc).
• 3 more loads of laundry
• all laundry sorted and put away - only 2 loads left to do
• *almost* ready to actually put the CRF luggage away...just in time to take one back out for thanksgiving driving trip to jersey...*sigh*
• cleaned kitchen
• made chili in crock-pot
• "Irish" chili - used Kells Irish Lager from Rogue (about half a tall-bottle), and Dubliner cheese from wegmans
• wife made cornbread - very filling, gives me more leftovers of chili for later, like today's lunch!
  
• actually cleaned kitchen after
• remembered to get the trash out which is good 'cause they won't be here to pick up on Thursday
  

Having stuff to work to, a-la "whistle while you work" always helps.

In my case, I can see myself working at home a lot more on Sundays now that 1) i'm there instead of at faire, and 2) XM Radio's 80s on 8's American Top 40 reruns are on Sundays from 11 to3 EST, which can fire me up to actually get stuff done.

then sorting laundry at night was made easier by Comic Relief 2006!

the true libertarian meaning of "legislating morality"

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Rowe and Sandefur on Legislating Morality:

[...] that contrary to those who say we can't legislate morality, the truth is that we must legislate morality. The arguments in favor of gay marriage are moral arguments; so are the arguments against what we commonly call "morals legislation." [...]

Yes, one can make practical arguments against those types of policies as well, but there is an inescapable moral component to such arguments that we should not shrink from. The Declaration of Independence, for example, makes its case in boldly moral terms: men are endowed with unalienable rights and to violate those rights is unjust. Contrary to those who say that we cannot legislate morality, the truth is that by preventing some from imposing their will on others we are, in fact, legislating morality.

That's the argument we must make against "legislating morality", that regardless of one's personal views on what is and is not moral behavior, to impose those views on others and use coercion to stop them from doing something that does not harm another person or deprive them of their rights is immoral and unjust. That is the founding premise of this nation, one that we have far too often failed to stand up for and insist upon. But it is an emphatically moral argument and there is no need to pretend otherwise.