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Notes/Ag Notes.md

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+Richard Mulvaney - Amino Sugars, Illinois Soil N Test
+Clay Aging, esp. due to Anhydrous
+Modes of K: Use sulfate, not muriated
+Chloride competes with nitrate
+Cropsmith; Ken Ferrie's Variable N
+A Living Soil Handbook - Jesse Frost
+Hay in a Day
+Joel Williams Foliar N course - integratedsoils.com
+AEA Soil Primer
+16 groups / families of plants??

Notes/Birthdays.md

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+
+# Marissa - July 11
+
+# Dad - July 9
+
+# Joyce - May 26
+
+# Mom - August 22
+
+# Mom/Dad Anniversary - July 7
+
+# Nathaniel Deddens - Nov 12 2020
+

Notes/Car Log for Toyota Rav4.md

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+# Sometime in August 2022 - 102000 MI
+Oil change
+FF9972 Filter
+Fram Full Synth Motor Oil 0W-20
+
+## Sometime in October 2022 - 105000 MI
+New tires + alignment
+
+## Sometime in March 2023 -  113000 MI
+Oil Change - xxx filter
+
+## Sometime in April 2023
+- Changed all brake rotors
+	- Did you change the pads too???
+
+## SEP2023 - 123728 MI
+- Oil change
+	- Rural King 0w20
+	- Fram CH9972
+## 08DEC2023 - 125900 MI
+- Coolant change - drained (not flushed) and replaced with Asian red Walmart Coolant
+	- Coolant looked fine
+## 11DEC2023 - 125958 MI
+- Spark Plug Change - NGK ILFR5T11 (Laser Iridium)
+	- Previous plugs had some corrosion and fouling
+- Engine Air Filter Change - FRAM CA10677
+
+## 21JUN2024 - 135100 MI
+- Oil Change
+	- Rural King 0w20
+	- FRAM CH9972
+
+## 07MAR2025 - 145626 MI
+- Oil change
+	- Rural King 0w20
+	- FRAM CH9972
+- Replaced tire with a new ironhead. Old tires stay in front, new (mismatched) tires stay in rear.

Notes/Digital Economics Notes.md

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+# Digital Economics 101
+- Braindump about the struggle -> content (tell yourself what to do) -> trust the process to solve the problem
+- Do not keep in your head
+
+### Skills to boost impact/income
+- Copywriting
+- Email marketing
+- Sales
+- Web design
+- Social media growth
+- Graphic design
+- Marketing / advertising
+
+### Incorporate curiousities into your brand
+- Write out 2-3 of your interests
+	- Appropriate technology
+	- Theology (theosis)
+	- Fabrication
+- Write out 2-3 options for eventual monetization
+	- Courses
+	- Project plans
+	- Plaques
+- Think big/small - write broader interests and skills, then niche interests and skills
+	- Makes a web
+- Look out for books, content, podcasts, and life experiences 
+
+**Leaders are those who help others self-actualize**
+
+Post beginner / intermediate level content from your unique perspective, then go more in-depth with longer-form emails, articles, and a lead magnet
+

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+# Ch1: My Vision
+- We want tight-knit family groups, small business, multigenerational business/trade/land control, and elderly usefulness, reverence, and care.
+- Contrast this to our general structure: Geographically distant families, multinational corporations and the global economy, job-jumping and short-timing, elderly obsolescence, retirement, and disrespect.
+- The modern home is vacant during the day.
+- The modern home interests do not center around home and hearth, but something beyond the front door (and then on top of it, we bring the world in via the WWW)
+
+> BIG Q: WHAT IS YOUR VISION?
+
+
+# Ch3: Money
+- Money is amoral
+- Good farmers producing good food deserve premium prices
+- "I hate money. I love money. That settles it. Actually, maybe it does."
+
+# CH4: Goal Setting
+
+These are cheap or low value goals:
+
+- Earn a net income of $50,000
+- Double our income at farmers' market
+- Get 50% market share
+- Raise 12,000 broilers
+- Save $20,000 this year
+- Double our customers this year
+- Produce 15 bushels of premium grade apples per tree
+
+Compare these to another set of goals:
+
+- Add one complimentary enterprise this year
+- Reduce customer negative comments to two for the whole year
+- Knock one person-minute per chicken off processing time
+- Drop from two-day to one-day paddock rotations
+- Increase Omega 3 fatty acids in eggs by 100%
+- Turn dropped fruit into something of value
+
+Money and the like comes out from the goals, not vice versa. No shortcuts. 
+
+Beware the kind of goals you make. Put real emphasis on wording them so they really express your most heartfelt values. And word them so that they are noble enough to not only justify your life's work, but that of your grandchildren as well. Financial goals are cheap and unrewarding in the long term. Values goals, on the other hand, are worthwhile and tend toward multi-generational striving. That is noble.
+
+> BIG Q: WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
+
+# CH6: Making the Break from Outside Employment
+- Nothing is beneath you.
+- Be encouraged. Be committed. Be willing to do anything. 
+- It took about 5 years to get out of the woods.
+- What are your strengths?
+
+> BIG Q: WHAT ARE YOUR STRENGTHS?
+- I love to work and work hard.
+- I am honest.
+- I am stronger than I look.
+- I am likeable. I can carry on conversation with about anybody and am interested in most things. I can make people feel heard.
+- I am theologically- and philosophically- minded.
+- I question underlying assumptions.
+- I am creative.
+- I understand technology in a way that most people don't
+- I am dependable - I get what I said I'm going to do, done.
+# CH7: Restoring Community
+- Work as close to home as possible; preferable in the home
+- Personal responsibility for healthcare, elderly care, education, etc - I must become knowledgeable and make decisions
+- Help one another without keeping records of who god the better deal
+- Community responsibility and interdependence for insurance-type calamities
+- True servanthood - I'll take the poor house site, you take the better one
+- My happiness comes from seeing you prosper - I'm not an empire builder
+
+For decades our church groups have been more interested in making sure baptism was performed technically correct rather than taking care of single moms or our own elderly. We had doctrine down pat but retirees frittered away their wisdom years tooling around in RVs playing golf and visiting the opera. We knew Scofield's meaning of each New Testament parable but sent kids away to public school to receive a good enough education to get a job a thousand miles away from home that paid well enough to hire nursing homes to take care of Mom and Dad. We were so busy intellectualizing spiritual gifts that we became physical pharmaceutical junkies.
+
+We have been in this place since 1961, yearning for community. In just the last five years [since 2001 - so 35 years], it is beginning to develop. We schedule workdays to help each other. We actually have to require each family to submit a project because our cultural paradigm considers it un-American to ask for help. See what I'm saying? We've cut trees, demolished buildings, built barns and brainstormed landscape plans.
+
+In our group, we do not live on the same land. We are scattered around the area. But we have now done some projects for neighbors of our fellowship, creating a wider community respect and visibility. We've had folks come and go. Plenty of pain has accompanied gains. But our family is committed to community in all its social, accountability, economic, and outreach ramifications.
+
+THOUGHTS
+- Salatin's geographic position is actually pretty similar to ours in Illinois. That's encouraging. But just because he's making things work doesn't mean we can or should in the same way. Still.
+
+# CH8-18: 10 Commandments
+
+## 1: Integration into every aspect
+ - Kids should be part of the process; but it has to be genuine work not make-work. It has to be appropriately scaled.
+ - Kids should not be above anything
+ - Look at the farm through the eyes of a child. Identify where involvement is being discourage and see if that can be restructured to a more child friendly technique.
+ - This is why small animals are nice.
+ - This is why diversified production is nice.
+ - Some work stations are not child friendly. In those cases, create a symbiotic one nearby so that the children can still be nearby doing their age and size appropriate jobs.
+
+> BIG Q: HOW CAN THIS BE DONE ON THE FARM?
+
+## 2: Love to Work
+- A problem is that most parents to day are unsure of what they believe so they pass on their lack of resolve to their offspring.
+- True child abuse is growing up undisciplined - it's reaching maturity thinking that the night is for partying instead of sleeping for the next day's important work.
+
+## 3: Give Freedom
+- The young generation must feel a genuine acceptance on the part of the older generation to offer input and new ideas into the operation. Otherwise, the young people never feel a part, never feel ownership, and never develop a love for the business.
+- If kids don't feel like their comments are welcome, they won't offer any. This happens between any two individuals, but it is most acute and most devastating between parents and children. Intergenerational discussions can be the most awkward exchanges imaginable. The piercing sinlence within the deep discussion is pregnant with unspoken hurt and pain. Mom and dad, stalwart and rigid, try to make the best of the situation. The child - age doesn't matter in this scenario - breaks inside with unspoken anguish: "If I could just tell them how they make me feel."
+- For all my imperfections, I want my kids to be able to say: "Dad freed me up to pursue my projects." Each of our children is different, and each will develop different interests. The idea is to allow these interests to develop freely and be used within the framework of the family farm.
+	- Another good reason to have a diversified farm
+- "Do I have enough confidence in him to trust him to pursue his dreams?"
+- Boards can be replaced; children can't.
+
+## 4: Create Investment Opportunities
+- Let the children invest in the farm.
+- "As soon as Dad knew I wanted to farm, he quit buying things."
+
+## 5: Encourage Separate Child Business
+- Have things that are genuinely the child's, rather than the parent's.
+
+## 6: Maintain Humor
+- Be positive and cheery!
+- "They don't remember the good times until the golden shackles of their Dilbert cubicle fills them with anguish. Then they remember the simpler life. And they want to go back. But it's really a memory trick, whitewashed over the years to reveal only the pleasantries. They reason I know this is true because if it were as enticing as they now recall it, they would have never left in the first place. True, some people will leave regardless. But generally the fault lies in the parents for not creating emotional and economic opportunities for the next generation."
+- Take time to enjoy the humor on the farm. Watch the calves run across the field, kicking up their heels. Tussle with your children in the hay mow after the last bale is in. Enjoy the sunset. Go to picnics, even if it's just to the back field. Too often farmers feel like they have to go elsewhere for their enjoyment. Build a pond with an adjacent barbecue pit. Create your own recreation and entertainment. In a diversified farm, who needs to go away for excitement?
+- Part of the annual "to do" list needs to include items that will enhance our quality of life.
+- If our vocation does not energize us, then we're probably doing the wrong thing or at least doing it in the wrong way.
+
+## 7: Pay the Children
+- Pay the children for their labor.
+- No allowances
+- Get rid of the time-clock-punching mentality
+
+## 8: Praise, Praise, Praise
+- Praise your children.
+- Men are driven to excel, win, compete. But we need to not be fussy.
+- Be OK with children's lower tolerances. And other's lower tolerances. Will it do the job? Yes? OK!
+
+## 9: Enjoy your Vocation
+- Enjoy the farm yourself.
+
+## 10: Back Off from Personal Domains
+- Don't micromanage
+
+# CH18: Pleasant Farms
+- Make farms nice places to be. Sweet smelling. Well adorned.
+
+# CH19: Creating Safe Models
+- Be kind and gentle
+- Work with nature, not against it
+- Don't be a sadist
+
+# CH20: Multiple Use Infrastructure
+- Diverse and multi-use infrastructure can be redirected, repurposed
+- Allow for the next generation to do something different
+- Be skeptical of single-purpose equipment (combines)
+
+# CH21: Complimentary Enterprises
+- Complimentary, transitional enterprises
+- Ramp up as the kids get older - and parents decline in productivity
+- "The problem is that farmers generally never think about complimentary enterprises. Dairy farmers can only think in terms of milking more cows. That takes a greater land base, more machinery, more buildings. A beef cattle farmer thinks in terms of more cows, creating the same problem as the dairy farmer. A crop farmer thinks about more acreage under cultivation."
+- Let the new generation utilize the existing capital (land, buildings, machinery) to greater capacity in order to keep startup costs low. The enterprise must not compete for existing capital. Adding beef cows to a dairy operation is adding cows to cows. That's competing.
+- Adding cherry to apple, beef to dairy, is diversity, but not complementary diversity.
+
+> BIG Q: WHAT COMPLIMENTARY ENTERPRISES COULD WE BUILD?
+- Orchards
+- Chickens.
+	- Make our own meal.
+- Ducks (need a pond though)
+- Logging
+- Timber Framing
+	- Sheds/cabins for outdoor retreats, etc.
+	- Rustic hand-tool furniture to go with
+- 
+
+# CH22: Create a sense of Plenty
+- The world is awash in resources
+- Stay put in the promised land, yet be fruitful and multiply.
+- Under proper stewardship the land should become more and more productive.
+
+# CH23: Greenhouse Kids
+- Don't shelter the kids
+- But start them under shelter
+- Gradually harden them up
+- Greenhouse analaogy: greenhouse plants are the healthiest
+
+# CH24: Socialization: No Hermits Here
+- The family farm is magnetic. Because of its diversity in production, it's an interesting place. Interesting places are always fascinating to visit. How many people want to visit a 1,000 acre corn farm? Nothing really exciting happens, except during plowing and combining. But a few minutes of that, and you've seen all there is to see. It's the same thing, over and over and over again.
+- Direct marketing = a steady steam of customers coming to the farm
+- Zoning makes things difficult
+
+# CH25: Baggage
+- Everyone has baggage.
+- In a family friendly farm, baggage must be fairly open.
+- The alternative is pulling into my shell, doing my own thing, not listening to others' advice, and becoming autonomous.
+- Here are some keys:
+	- Mutually agreeable vulnerability and openness
+	- Recognition that all of us have baggage
+	- Radical honesty
+	- Assume no-one is vindictive and everyone is compassionate
+	- Accountability in attitude, action, and philosophy
+	- Some people don't want to cooperate - don't blame yourself for it
+	- Don't wait for someone else to open up first - go ahead and start
+	- Time is real - both to accumulate and heal
+- Love is too subjective and a cop-out.
+- There's no magic wand.
+
+# CH26: Noble Literature
+- Read good stuff!!!
+
+# CH27: Balancing Stimuli
+- You can't do everything.
+- We don't need to be heavily exposed to everything in order to be relevant.
+- We've failed our children if they have no more gumption, no more cultural savvy, than to become farmers.
+- When we create a hunger and desire for what is right, the child will never depart.
+
+# CH28: Family Council
+- Genuine, formal planning time
+- On a daily basis - daily todos!
+- You cannot run too far ahead of your family or they will be lost
+- "Now you don't have to fix anything. I'm not asking for solutions. I'm just going to unload for a minute."
+
+# CH29: 10 Deadly Destructive Deeds
+10. Conventionalism
+9. Secrecy
+8. Manhandling
+7. Disinterest
+6. Doting
+5. Perfectionism
+4. Authoritarianism
+3. Bagging
+2. Screaming
+1. Inconsistency
+
+# CH30: Nutrition and Lifestyle
+- So many of our problems stem from poor nutrition.
+- If white bread and Lucky Charms are your nutritive base, all sorts of emotional and physical maladies will show up.
+- Witholding refined sugar from problem kids fixed them in a few days. But then they load up and come back and they're as bad as before.
+
+# CH31: Industry vs. Biology
+- Specialized vs. Diversified
+- Routine vs. Flexible
+- Mechanization vs. Biological
+	- "I think the pig should've been made this way"
+	- Pigs have a plow on their nose - could it be something useful instead of a hindrance?
+
+# CH32: A Sense of Ministry
+- To carry an enterprise multigenerationally, the business must literally gush with outreach, big picture, missionary worldview.
+- Marketing is light fighting.
+- "When I produce a clean, nutriotious chicken for an appreciative cheerleader patron, the business and its product are not just 'neat', 'cute', and 'different'. I've taken a swipe at evil and won one for righteousness. You say I'm taking this too far? Go out and market something at less than this intensity and see how far you get."
+- Truly successful farm marketers have a deep philosophical conviction about a rightness and wrongness in food production.
+
+# CH33: Business Charity
+- Look for opportunities to be charitable and especially for the business to do things that do not return money.
+
+# CH34: Retirement; an Alternative View
+- Don't spend your kids inheritance
+
+# CH35: Inheritance: Performance Distribution
+- It's only fair to give your son who IS keeping the farm, the whole farm.
+- Don't split your inheritance equally. This is silly. Bad. Evil.
+
+# CH36: But We Don't Have Children
+- Court an apprentice and give them the farm
+- Same if all the kids leave

Notes/From out of the Ashes.md

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+## From out of the Ashes
+### Dr. Anthony Esolen
+
+> (125) When the monks of the Rule of Saint Benedict build their monasteries across Europe, planing them even in the dark pagan forests of norther Germany and Ireland and England, they were outposts of memory.
+> (166) "Lately the family has taken to using the room for storage" - interesting how consumerist culture makes us view the past as inconvenient, then causing a cascade where the near past even becomes inconvenient.
+> (176) "It's as if a boy could still learn how to play baseball if he went to a special baseball camp, or as if we all could still learn how to converse with our neighbors if we went on a special conversation retreat."
+> (208) "Sometimes the name of a thing remains long after the essence has been lost. In that case, people will still say that they do this or that, without knowing that in large part it is no longer true."
+> (245) "The pulsing heart of the universe is a liturgy; a worship-work."
+> (370) "I make no boast about what I would or would not do. I insist instead, if I prove myself to be on the verge of breaking a solemn promise, that *other men hold me to it,* just as a corporal orders the recruit to remain at this station, and his buddies make sure he does. Nobody knows what the baattlefield is like until the bullets fly and the grenades explode. That is precisely what vows are for."
+> (403) "This is not the ecommon talk of ordinary people in ordinary times. When the fishermen on an old schooner set down for the night, they did not talk about *democracy, diversity, equality, inclusivity,* and the rest of the nonsense. They talked about their work: the sea, good spots for cod or halibut, the ropes, the bad food, sails that needed repair, what ports they had visited, and what they saw and did there. They talked about home, their children, the woman waiting for one of them in Saint John's, various misadventures with the police. They talked about human things. They might sing songs, or play cards or chess or checkers, or whittle scrimshaw. If one of them did launch into political cant, he'd be roared down by the others or have a shot of whiskey splashed in his face."
+> (245) "the pulsing heart of the universe is a liturgy, a worship-work."
+> (262) "refuse to utter the lie, or to use its language."
+> (262) we lie to obstruct/obfuscate language and to hide the bad things we've done
+> (434) "we have to immerse ourselves in *things*: trees, stars, mud, grouse, hay, stones, brooks, rain, dogs, fire; and the manmade things closest to the human hand and its work: hammer, shovel, paintbrush, wrench, wheel."
+> (434) "it is hard to go completely mad if you spend your free time being free and accepting the free bounties of the world round about."
+> (449) - if we are always encountering things at first before obscenities, when we come across obscenities, they are obvious folly. Natural immunity > vaccination - but we must first understand the body's natural state.
+> (603) "Notice what it is that people believe to be most important in our common life on earth. If you went to the Great Exposition, you might suppose that the most important thing is to make machines that turn things, so as to work other machines, to do things we want them to tod, or to make things we want them to make. If you went to Chartres, you would not need to suppose, you would simply and readily perceive that the most important thing was to sing with the Psalmist, "I rejoiced when I heard them say, Let us go up to the house of the Lord.""
+> (1178) "we avoid religious questions at the cost of avoiding the most human questions."
+> (1178) **be bold. ask daring questions. 'be tactful' is one thing, 'be boring' is another. do some good 1:1s**

Notes/How to Get 10k Followers on Instagram Per Week.md

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+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89bF5Dzh_F4
+
+- Shift from Customers to Audience
+ - SERVE
+
+- Who is the audience
+- What do they need
+- Why do they need it
+
+- list the _gaps_
+- do the things that are easy

Notes/Kingsnorth Erasmus Lecture.md

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+Paul Kingsnorth recently gave
+the 2024 Erasmus Lecture,
+"Against Christian Civilization."
+
+Kingsnorth, as always,
+is quite persuasive.
+
+He argues that there is
+ something quite mistaken
+  about creating "civilization".
+
+     Shortly after the fall, the
+    desire for civilization appears.
+
+Cain was then building a city,
+  and he named it after his son Enoch.
+There is something wrong with using religion as a tool to build culture, Kingsnorth argues. This desire is rampant today: many on the "religious right" fall into this trap either implicitly or explicitly; we need "to act as if God exists" in order to "save Western Civilization". It confuses a means with an end.
+
+I'm not certain that Kingsnorth is entirely right that we should eschew civilization altogether. But we do have to get our ends and means straightened out.
+
+The end is union with God. Theosis. The Beautific Vision. The New Jerusalem. The images and terms for this mystical end beyond our comprehension abound. But let us make no mistake - this is the end. It is not a 'motivator', like a treat given to a dog that behaved.
+It is the goal, it is the thing we are striving after.
+
+Civilization can be a tool to achieve this end. Guardrails. And perhaps even the dog-treat
+that we get occasionally to reassure us that
+we are on the right track. But the moment
+we raid the cookie jar instead of watching
+our master obediently, we fall into idolatry.
+We confuse the means for the end
+and we overdose on consolation.
+
+As God
+showed the
+Israelites
+over and over,
+what He desires
+is not "civilization".
+He desires love.
+
+'Had you desired sacrifices I would have offered them,
+  but You are not satisfied with whole-burnt offerings.
+  Sacrifice to God is a contrite spirit,
+  a crushed and humbled heart God will not spurn.
+only after this change of heart, this realignment with him, this recognition of true ends, that:
+
+then will You be delighted
+  with sacrifices
+    and whole-burnt offerings.
+then shall they offer
+  calves upon your altar.
+
+If we find that civilization is beneficial to this end, wonderful.
+If we find it detracting, so be it.
+We fix our eyes on the end of all  things, and work towards it, and whatever blossoms forth from this
+- may it be blessed. - T. H.

Notes/Makerspace Combos.md

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+# Lathe 36-2-16
+# Mill 14-16-10
+# Chopsaw 5-11-21
+# Propane 14-4-34
+# Acetylene 22-12-18
+# Planer 8-34-16
+# CNC MagicalFruit

Notes/Quotes.md

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+`Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.` - St Teresa of Calcutta
+
+“The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” - CS Lewis
+
+We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. - CS Lewis
+
+Look upon all the tools and all the property of the monastery as if they were sacred altar vessels. - St Benedict of Nursia
+
+When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong. - R Buckminster Fuller
+
+> You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves….On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make him a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness, all his dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him.
+> - John Ruskin

Notes/Recipes.md

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+# Pancakes
+- 1.5c flour
+- 3tsp bak powder
+- 1tsp bak soda
+- 1 tblsp sugar
+- 1.5c milk
+- 1 egg
+- 3 tblsp oil
+- dash of almond/vanilla
+# Waffles
+- 1 egg
+- 1 c flour
+- 7/8 c milk
+- 1/4 c oil
+- 1/2 tblsp sugar
+- 2 tsp bak pow
+- 1/4 tsp salt
+- 1/2 tsp vanilla 
+
+# Overnight French Toast
+- 3 tblsp sugar
+- 1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
+- 16oz bread
+- 1 cup whole milk
+- 12oz evap milk
+- 6 eggs
+- 1/4c maple syrup
+- 1 tblsp vanilla
+- 1/4 tsp salt
+
+soak etc overnight
+bake 375f / 20min covered / 10min uncovered
+
+# Kombucha
+
+0. Sanitize a mason jar. Add the SCOBY and starter tea (if you already have these in a mason jar from a previous batch, you're good to go). Sanitize any funnels or equipment (including your hands) that will touch the kombucha/tea.
+1. On a stovetop, bring water to a boil and prepare tea in the following ratio: 1 gallon of water to four teabags and 1 cup of white sugar (yes, white cane sugar is best - this is for the SCOBY to feast on, not you). NOTE: If the water you are using is city (chlorinated) water, this needs to boil for at least 10 minutes, or sit for 24 hours, to remove the chlorine, otherwise the chlorine will kill the SCOBY.
+2. Once the tea has come to room temp, or at least cooler than 95F, it can be added to the mason jar(s) with the SCOBY and starter tea.
+3. Cover the mason jar with a permeable cover - using a paper towel held in place with a rubber band or a ring-style cap works. This is to prevent debris, dust, and insects from getting in, while still allowing the kombucha to breathe.
+4. Wait 7-10 days, depending on desired strength - you can sample with a straw and your finger, or a burette, to pull a small amount out and taste it. This is the primary fermentation. Leave the jar somewhere fairly dark (so the sun's UV rays won't kill it), reasonably warm (68-78F is best), and away from any potential mold.
+5. Transfer the kombucha into a sanitized container that can be sealed tightly (e.g. a flip-top bottle; A mason jar generally won't have a tight enough seal). Leave the SCOBY and some liquid (starter tea) in the mason jar for the next batch. You may need to use your hands to transfer the SCOBY back into the original jar or keep it from falling out so make sure your hands are clean!
+6. At this point you can add any flavorings - generally, adding some additional sweetness or sugar for the bacteria and yeast to feast on is good. Be sure that whatever you add is clean! Examples:
+	1. 1/6 cup dried elderberries and 1/2 lemon
+	2. 1 tblsp honey and 1/2 lemon
+7. Seal off the kombucha and wait another 2-5 days for the secondary fermentation to complete, leaving you with some lovely carbonation. Again, make sure to leave the jar somewhere out of sunlight, reasonably warm, and clean.
+8. Enjoy! You can refrigerate the kombucha at this point to prevent over-fermentation.
+
+Notes:
+- A SCOBY is a "Symbyotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast"; it's a living thing! It might do some weird stuff. It's the major 'home' for the bacteria and yeast, but the bacteria and yeast are contained in the entire tea mixture.
+- The SCOBY may sink to the bottom, or rise to the top. This isn't a great or bad sign either way. If it's rising, it's active!
+- You might find that your SCOBY doubles. Score!
+- If you see anything unusual growing, it might be fine, but quite possibly, it might be mold, which means you have to toss the entire batch, SCOBY and all. Do some research and figure out what you've got on your hands. (This is one reason I like having multiple SCOBYs going, so I'm never completely hosed if one gets contaminated).

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+# The Right to Useful Unemployment
+
+Those two words give pause to the typical American mind: what could even be meant by useful unemployment? We know what self-employment is - that American dream. But what would useful unemployment look like?
+
+Well, consider the homesteader - who keeps themself busy and provides for themself. Nobody employs them - not even themself, for they do not recieve pay. All the value they create is maintained in *use-value* rather than *exchange-value*.
+
+Well, there are homesteaders today, we might say. What need of a 'right'?
+
+Well, Illich isn't arguing for any new amendment or true 'right' - he's merely critiquing. But the homesteader does face obstruction. At the very least, Ceasar demands tribute, and will not be satisfied with spare chickens or surplus corn - he wants cold hard cash. He wants surplus exchange value.
+
+What else obstructs the usefully unemployed? What's so bad about exchange value? And actually, don't we all want to be usefully unemployed, at least some of the time?
+
+Illich's postscript to his essay Tools for Conviviality sets out to do three things:
+
+	1. Describe the character of a commodity/market-intensive society in which the very abundance of commodities paralyzes the autonomous creation of use-values;
+
+	2. Insist on the hidden role that professions play in such a society by shaping its needs;
+
+	3. Expose some illusions and propose some strategies to break the professional power that perpetuates market dependence.
+
+# 1. The market society
+
+Illich bemoans the global homogenization we have come to see:
+
+	In only a few decades, the world has become an amalgam. Human responses to everyday occurrences have been standardized. Though languages and gods still appear to be different, people daily join the stupendous majority who march to the very same megamachine. The light switch by the door has replaced the dozens of ways in which fires, candles and lanterns were formerly kindled.
+
+But it is not merely that the typical mode of existing has converged, but:
+
+	Light that does not flow from high-voltage networks and hygiene without tissue paper spell poverty for ever more people.
+
+Not that more people use non-electrified light - but that we see non-electrified light as a sign of poverty. The things of self-dependence, the signs of life, are now looked down upon by the industrial machine.
+
+	True, more babies get cow's milk, but the breasts of both rich and poor dry up. The addicted consumer is born when the baby cries for the bottle: the the organism is trained to reach for milk from the grocer and to turn away from the breast that thus defaults.
+
+What does this difference between the mother's breast and the grocer entail? At its core is a trade: sacrifice relationship for security. The mother's breast is not always there or ready. But the grocer is, or aims to be. However the quality suffers - as we know breastmilk in particular has certain nutrients and other qualities that make it better suited for nursing. The cow cannot compete on quality - especially when the industrial apparatus required to maintain the cow entails killing off the probiotics in the milk - literally killing the culture.
+
+This obsession with outsourcing is a strange new movement.
+
+	All through history, the best measure for bad times was the percentage of food eaten that had to be purchased. In good times, most families got most of their nutrition from what they grew or acquired in a network of gift relationships.
+
+By such historic standards, we are in the worst of times.
+
+And the rich seem to agree - as we see an increasing desire among some with money to homestead and life off-grid. I don't mean that their desire is wrong, but only to exemplify Illich's words:
+
+	The toil and pleasure of the human condition become a faddish privilege restricted to some of the rich. 
+
+Why? Why is it more expensive now than ever to be a peasant?
+
+	On the day Venezuela legislated the right of each citizen to 'housing', conceived of as a commodity, three-quarters of all families found that their self-build dwellings were thereby degraded to the status of hovels. Furthermore - and this is the rub - self-building was now prejudiced. No house could be legally started without the submission of an approved architect's plan. The useful refuse and junk of Caracus, up until then re-employed as excellent building materials, now created a problem of solid-waste disposal. The man who produces his own 'housing' is looked down upon as a deviant who refuses to cooperate with the local pressure group for the delivery of mass-produced housing units.
+
+The war on poverty, instead of lifting people up economic rungs, has succeeded only in cutting off the lower rungs and leaving them as polluting rubbish, outlawed to be welded back onto the ladder.
+
+Rungs of a ladder which the rich seem to want to be on - why?
+
+We want to be useful, and want to be useful outside the confines of the machine. We want to make use of our hands for ourselves and our neighbors, not a globally homogenous corporate blob. To authentically give of ourselves.
+
+And so we give of ourselves - we give baked goods, hobby crafts, raw milk, and more. We find that this is wonderful - this fostering of relationship between our fellow man, even in the simple things. In the recieving we find joy too - and perhaps even greater utility from these things produced on a small, relational scale.
+
+The same milk given from neighbor to us becomes illegal when an exchange is made - this very same milk we judged superior to that of the grocer. The milk from the cows we walked among, lived next to, and have known on a personal basis for years becomes illegal on the market - unless processed in particular ways and permitted, often at great expense - an expense that makes expanding a small and beneficial enterprise of milk-giving into something that would generate a living for oneself while contributing authentically to the community.
+
+The same building methods we might employ on a small scale to make furniture and equipment, requires codification and approval by professional building inspectors. Vernacular construction methods suffer as 'poverty' is outlawed, relegating these building methods to the eclectic wealthy who can muster the engineering effort to 'prove' anew what tradition and common-sense already has for centuries.
+
+But in all of these something intangible is lost:
+
+	Economists have no effective means of including in their calculations the society-wide loss of a kind of satisfaction that has no market equivalent. Thus, one could today define economists as the members of a fraternity which only accepts people who, in the pursuit of their professional work, can practice a trained social blindness towards the most fundamental trade-off in contemporary systems, both East and West: the decline in the individual-personal ability to do or make, which is the price of every additional degree of commodity affluence.
+
+	Modern societies, rich or poor, can move in either of two opposite directions: they can produce a new bill of goods - albeit safer, less wasteful, more easily shared - and thereby further intensify their dependence on consumer staples. Or, they can take a totally new approach to the inter-relationship between needs and satisfactions. In other words, societies can either retain their market-intensive economies, changing only the design of the output, or they can reduce their dependence on commodities.
+
+Illich even predicts and critiques the Amazon locker:
+
+	A world designed for service deliveries is the utopia of citizens turned into welfare recipients.
+
+# (Disabling) Professions
+
+	The credibility of the professional expert, be he scientist, therapist, or executive, is the Achilles' heel of the industrial system. Therefore, only those citizen initiatives and radical technologies that directly challenge the insinuating dominance of disabling professions open the way to freedom for non-hierarchical, community-based competence.
+
+Here, Illich has a strong anarchist streak - one which I track with for a while, but only to a point. He makes the comparison to clergy, in a critical way. I think this comparison is apt, but Illich seems to be unable to distinguish between the clergy operating normally and properly and the clergy as they were accused (and often were) leading up to the Protestant reformation. Illich would be well to walk the line better here - and I hope to write about this in more depth soon.
+
+The critique he offers of professionals as we have come to know them is damning - worse than the 'oldest profession':
+
+	Merchants sell you the goods they stock. Guildsmen guaruntee quality. Some craftspeople tailor their product to your measure or fancy. Professionals however, tell you what you need. They claim the power to prescribe. They not only advertise what is good, but ordain what is right.
+
+	[...]
+
+	[W]hat counts is the professional's authority to define a person as client, to determine that person's need, and to hand that person a prescription which defines this new social role. Unlike the hookers of old, the modern professional is not one who sells what others give for free, but rather one who decides what ought to be sold and must not be given for free.
+
+The modern professional not only ostracises us from domains we would normally be competent in, but then tells us to what degree we need their products - utterly removing us from their domain of so-called competence. We lose even the ability to develop and identify our own needs.
+
+	As people become apt pupils in learning how to need, the ability to shape wants from experienced satisfaction becomes a rare competence of the very rich or the seriously undersupplied.
+
+As time goes on, our understanding of the professions condenses and procedures get simplified. Rather than giving this revelation to the people, the professional even gets condensed down into the clipboard warrior:
+
+	As pharmacological technique - tests and drugs - became so predictable and cheap that one could have dispensed with the physician, society enacted laws and police regulations to restrict the free use of those procedures had simplified, and placed them on the prescription list.
+
+	Just twenty years ago, it was a sign of normal health - which was assumed to be good - to get along without a doctor... To be plugged into a professional system as a life-long client is no longer a stigma that sets apart the disabled person from citizens at large.
+
+# Strategies
+
+Illich is generally depressing, but still, knows there is a way out:
+
+	[reducing dependence on commodities] entails the adventure of imagining and constructing new frameworks in which individuals and communities can develop a new kind of modern toolkit. This would be organized so as to permit people to shape and satisfy an expanding proportion of their needs directly and personally.
+
+It begins by demolishing illusions.
+
+	The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services.
+
+	[...]
+
+	The illusion that economic models can ignore use-values springs from the assumption that those activities which we designate by intransitive verbs can be indefinitely replaced by institutionally defined staples referred to as nouns: 'education' substituted for 'I learn'; 'health care' for 'I heal'; transportation for 'I move'; 'television' for 'I play'.
+
+Change begins with us - we need to use the right language. I don't need "healthcare" per se, I need to heal - something that I must do; no mechanistic apparatus can possibly eliminate the work that I put in. I don't need food, I need to eat - I must ultimately put fork in mouth. We can begin by acknowledging the ultimate use-values of things and putting them as primary, working back from there - rather than implicitly advocating for the technocratic apparatus.
+
+The second sort of illusion is that all tools are basically of the same sort.
+
+	Throughout history... most work was done to create use-values not destined for exchange. But technological progress has been consistently applied to develop a very different kind of tool: it has pressed the tool primarily into the production of marketable staples... Now women or men, who have come to depend almost entirely on deliveries of standardized fragments produced by tools operated by anonymous others, have ceased to find the same direct satisfaction in the use of tools that stimulated the evolution of man and his cultures.
+
+Tools are formative on their users - and so different tools produce different people. Rapidly evolving tools alienate us even from the culture we inherit. Hammers, sickles, plows, squares - these had a meaning that was understood through direct experience with their usage. Now, we know their meaning only through secondhand accounts. The effects that this has on us as a culture are difficult to comprehend; they require levels of meta-cognition spanning across generations.
+
+	The central planning of output-optimal decentralization has become the most prestigious job of the late seventies. But what is not yet recognized is that this new illusory salvation by professionally decreed limits confuses liberties and rights.
+
+What's a liberty, and what's a right? Per Illich:
+
+	Liberties protect use-values as rights protect the access to commodities.
+
+One may have a liberty to milk the family cow - but the logic of state welfare would say you have a right to milk. The right to clean, safe milk can get twisted against your liberty to milk a cow and sell the excess to your neighbor.
+
+	One certain way to extinguish the freedoms to speak, to learn, to heal, or to care is to delimit them by transmogrifying civil rights into civil duties... As society gives professionals the legitimacy to define rights, citizen freedoms evaporate.
+
+And it seems that we are trying to turn everything into a right:
+
+	At present, every new need that is professionally certified translates sooner or later into a right. The political pressure for the enactment of each right generates new jobs and commodities.
+
+It seems unfortunately that Illich doesn't care much to use this work 'liberty' in other parts of his work; he seems to boil everything down to 'right' which is ironic. Still, he seems to understand that there is a difference between different sorts of rights.
+
+	When the right of the citizen to a lawyer has been established, settling the dispute in the pub will be branded unenlightened or anti-social, as home births are now.
+
+We already have a sort of Orwellian existence, where nothing is real until it is acknowledged by the state (or corporations).
+
+	Labour no longer means effort or toil but the mysterious mate wedded to productive investments in plant. Work no longer means the creation of a value percieed by the worker but mainly a job, which is a social relationship.
+
+And at last we get at the namesake of this essay:
+
+	Unemployment means sad idleness, rather than the freedom to do things that are useful for oneself or for one's neighbor. An active woman who runs a house and brings up children and takes in those of others is distinguished from a woman who 'works', no matter how useless or damaging the product of this work might be. Activity, effort, achievement, or service outside a hierarchical relationship and unmeasured by professional standards, threatens a commodity-intensive society.
+
+It is interesting that the housewife seems to be the last vestage of the old ways: a true case of useful unemployment. 
+
+	Only with a license may you teach a child; only at a clinic may you set a broken bone. Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich.
+
+
+
+	People are beginning to see that such hegemony [of professional power] deprives them of their right to politics.
+
+In a section wonderfully titled "The self-critical hooker", Illich sees through the attempts at self-regulation that large corporations have taken.
+
+	Professional self-policing is useful principally in catching the grossly incompetent - the butcher or the outright charlatan. But as has been shown again and again, it only protects the inept and cements the dependence of the public on their services.
+
+The regulatory bodies thus formed seem to legitimize the reign of hegemonic entities. And Illich points out an unspoken and illegitimate right that has emerged:
+
+	The idea that professionals have a right to serve the public is thus of very recent origin. Their struggle to establish and legitimate this corporate right becomes one of our most oppressive social threats.
+
+
+
+What is the way out? Note modernity and walk right by it:
+
+	A retooling of contemporary society with convivial rather than industrial tools implies ashift of emphasis in our struggle for sical justice; it implies a new kind of subordination of distributive to participatory justice. In an industrial society, individuals are trained for extreme specialization. They are rendered impotent to shape or to satisfy their own needs.
+
+Illich, though, for all his great structural critique still ends in a strange, tacked-on egalitarian stance:
+
+	A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive liberties cannot come into existence unless the commodities and resources on which the exercise of these liberties is based are equally distributed to all.
+
+# In sum
+
+	Henceforth the quality of a society and of its culture wil depend on the status of its unemployed: will they be the most representative productive citizens, or will they be dependants? The choice or crisis again seems clear: advanced industrial society can degenerate into a holding operation harking back to the dream of the sixties; into a well-rationed distribution system that doles out decreasing commodities and jobs and trains its citizens for more standardized consumption and more powerless work... The inverse, of course, is equally possible: a modern society in which frustrated workers organize to protect the freedom of people to be useful outside the activities that result in the production of commodities.

Notes/SW License Keys.md

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+THF: 9000 0506 4766 8442 CB85 BB28

Notes/Science in Agriculture Review.md

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+
+	Whatever one's trade or hobby, he acts within a belief system that sets up the rules and regulations by which he functions. These are called paradigms. Any time there is progress, one's paradigm must shift and does shift or expand.
+
+	In conventional agricultire, the model has the following elements:
+		- Food and fiber production constitutes a war.
+		- Nature is the adversary.
+		- Insect, disease, and weed pest are "normal" and evidence the wrath of God on mankind.
+		- Soil is inanimate.
+		- Nature is random, unintelligent, and flawed.
+		- Man knows a better way.
+	The logic of conventional agriculture, more properly described as the dogma of the conventional agriculture "chirch," has the following elements:
+		- Reductionistic - the whole equals the sum of its parts and nothing more.
+		- Linear - based on straight-line, in-vitro observation and principle; what you get out is only equal to or less than what you put in - purely entropic.
+		- If all else fails, get a bigger hammer.
+
+	On the other hand, the model fo real-world agriculture has the following elements:
+	- Food and fiber production is part of nature, thwere peaceful coexistence is hte rule.
+	- Nature is the guide and guardian.
+	- Insect and idsease pests are nature's garbage collectors; weeds are nature's caretakers.
+	- Soil is living and dynamic, analogous o the ruminant digestive system.
+	- Nature is ordered, intelligent, and perfect.
+	- Nature is the example to follow; she possesses the ideal plant, soil, and animal characteristics.
+
+	The logic of real-world agriculture contains the following elements:
+	- Wholistic - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
+	- Nonlinear - keyed to tuning, based on harmonics, in-vivo observation, and principle.
+	- Energetics is the fundamental basis of all physiology, animate or inanimate.
+
+
+
+	God created nature and endowed man with the intelligence to learn nature's design and to apply its principles to his world. However, no man-made force transcends those found in nature, e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal movement and waves, and the earth's rotation. Understanding these forces allows man to apply them to enhance his environment. Until man understands these forces, he will continue to pollute and rape the planet, expend its resources, contaminate his fellow man, and generally do everything the hard way...
+	... there is no such thing as an energy shortage; the only deficiency is in common sense and awareness.
+
+	 Peer review is actually political review, designed to determine whether the work alienates the monopoly... are nonpioneers peers of pioneers? I say, No. Pioneers have no peers except other pioneers.
+
+I recently read what I think may be the best book I have ever read short of the bible: Science in Agriculture by Arden B. Andersen. I've been reading many books about agriculture this year. This one has a few things I value in discussion. Not only does it have detail and scientific fact, not just fuzzy fluffy feelings, it illustrates a way of thinking about these facts. 
+
+All too often we are presented with an onslaught of problems. We have an epidemic of nonpathogenic disease and our hospitals seemingly believe only in germ theory.

Notes/ayrmesh.md

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+2024-03-01 - Thad re-secured the ethernet cable for the 
+
+2024-03-01 16:19 - Matt reports that the house hub is flashing. Checking Ayrmesh.com reveals that the Remote Hub2 and Gateway Hub2 checked in at 16:15.
+
+2024-03-01 16:22 - Checking ayrmesh.com reveals that the Gateway Hub2 checked in at 16:20 - but the remote hub still shows 16:15.
+
+2024-03-01 16:23 - Remote Hub DC:9F:DB:68:E8:7D comes up, checked in at 16:22. Remote Hub 68:72:51:00:AB:24 still shows checkin at 16:15.
+
+Which hub is which? I do not remember... 
+
+2024-03-01 19:49 - All hubs up, checked in at 19:45ish. 3+ hours uptime.
+
+2024-03-05 20:45 - Connie reports house internet kicked out. Remote hubs show last checking 20:30 / 20:34. Gateway hub shows last checkin 20:41
+
+2024-03-05 20:48 - Gateway Hub checks in. No check in from remotes.
+2024-03-05 20:50 - Remote hubs check in.
+
+2024-03-06 20:31 - Dad reports house internet kicked out. Remote hubs show last checkin at 20:29 (:24) and 20:17 (:7D). Gateway hub shows last checkin 20:26
+2024-03-06 10:56 - Everything checked in at 20:55

Notes/brewing.md

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+# BREWING NOTES
+
+## Cider
+
+01OCT2023 - batch 1 primary fermentation 
+	Had strong fermentation at beginning but died down in a week.
+
+14OCT2023 - batch 1 racked
+	Pretty boring flavor.
+	Re-pitched yeast. (No hydrometer reading to go off of - just guessing that it's dead. In hindsight, I don't think it was.)
+	- Gallons 1&2: Plain
+	- Gallon 3: added 1 tblsp honey and some ginger
+
+09NOV2023 - batch 1 bottled
+	- Wow! Strong! Hydrometer down to 0%. Smelled very yeasty. Tasting directly, it's kinda gross, but backsweetening turns the whole thing around.
+	- Bottled with potassium sorbate (@ 1/2 tsp/gal) as a yeast-killer/preservative.
+	- From gallons 1&2: 
+		- 2 gallons + 1 liter with 1 gallon of cider, boiled to a concentrate
+			This is lovely. Nothing exquisite but lovely.
+	- From gallon 3 (ginger and honey added in racking):
+		- 1/2 gallon with 1/4 an orange + 1/4c sugar
+			This is kinda too sweet - a little 'fake'. The orange is doing a lot!
+		- 1/2 gallon with 1/4 an orange + 1/8c honey
+			This is a great balance and the honey adds a better flavor. The orange is doing a lot!
+
+14OCT2023 - batch 2 primary fermentation
+	Had strong fermentation at beginning but died down in a week.
+
+09NOV2023 - batch 2 racked
+	Strong! Hydrometer down to 0%...
+	- 1 gallon racked with 1/4 cup dried elderberries
+	- 1 gallon racked with 1/4 cup chopped ginger
+	- 1 gallon racked with 3 teabags (adds tannins???)
+	I'm a little worried that it's over-fermented already. Fermentation seems to be going too quickly?
+		No it's not, it's been almost 4 weeks. Oops. 
+
+15NOV2023 - Batch 3 pressed
+	- hydrometer reading 5% ABV potential
+	- there's a good bit of pulp on the top. Pressing didn't go fun.
+	- tastes. eh. "flat" - not crisp and sharp.
+	- put in 3.5 campden tablets
+	- put in 1.75 tsp pectinase
+
+
+# 2023 Cider Pressing
+Thoughts for next year:
+- Find the right cheesecloth. Needs to be strong but allow stuff through. The tea towel actually ended up working pretty well, but it wasn't quite big enough to do amazingly.
+- Get a metal bin that can withstand the pressure and isn't tapered. Or make a slotted barrel thing.
+- Drill lots of holes in the bin - and drill them on a spiral, so there's no dead level.
+- If the 'puck' had a handle on it that would be stellar. Make sure the puck is plenty strong.
+## Ideas to try
+- Potassium Sorbate kills off yeast (campden does not)
+- Add concentrated apple cider (1 gallon raw cider -> boil -> put into 4 gallons brewed)
+
+# BREWING
+BREW BREW BREW CHOO CHOO CHEW

Notes/dice game analysis.md

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+1: 6 throws, 33% success, 25 mean (75 only wins)
+2: 36 throws, 55% success, 50 mean (90 only wins)
+3: 216 throws, 72% success, 86 mean (120 only wins)
+4: 1296 throws, 83% success, 139 mean (165 only wins)
+5: 7776 throws, 91% success, 206 mean (226 only wins)
+6: 46656 throws, 95% success, 286 mean (300 only wins)
+7: 279936 throws, 97% success, 375 mean (384 only wins)
+8: 1679616 throws, 98% success, 470 mean (476 only wins)
+9: 10077696 throws, 99% success, 568 mean (573 only wins)
+10: 60466176 throws, 99% success, 669 mean (672 only wins)
+
+how the heck is 8 & 9 only 99% success
+
+![[Pasted image 20241209131631.png]]

Notes/interseeding.md

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+## Iowa Rec
+Beginner Mix
+- Annual Ryegrass @ 6 lb/A
+- Buckwheat @ 25 lb/A
+
+Grazing Mix
+- Annual Ryegrass @ 6 lb/A
+- Turnip @ 1.5 lb/A
+- Red Clover @ 4 lb/A
+
+
+## Notes from MCCP
+
+### Annual Ryegrass - p74
+- Holds soil, takes up excess N, outcompetes weeds
+- Overseedable into corn, beans, and others
+- Broadcast 10-40 lb/A
+- Crosspollinates with perennial ryegrass and turf-type annual ryegrass
+- Good grazing
+- Heavy user of moisture and N
+- Can become a weed - do not let it set seed
+- C:N = 25-55
+
+### Hairy Vetch
+- Excellent N provider (to following crop)
+- C:N = 8-15
+- Moisture-thrifty
+- Scavenges P
+- vetch/rye mix at 15-25:40-70 lb
+
+### Red Clover
+- Suggestion to wait until corn is 10-12" tall, and after 6 weeks of pre-emergent herbicides (e.g. atrazine)

Notes/linux.md

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+# thad linux user manual
+
+## set keyboard
+	xmodmap .xmodmap
+
+## set displays
+	./confdisp solo|dock
+
+## midnight commander (mc)
+- use control-o to toggle between console and not
+- tab toggles between left and right
+- control-x
+	- p : path
+	- t : filename
+	- s : make a symlink