Happy Birthday, quantum_zen!

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

- ee cummings

Papers, please.

http://unrealid.com/

We have less than two days to stop a national ID card from becoming reality.
The US Senate is trying to force states to adopt a National ID card: it's time to stop them. As part the debate on immigration legislation, the states will be forced to become REAL ID compliant.

States have strongly resisted this unfunded federal mandate – one that the Department of Homeland Security expects to cost more that $23 billion or almost $100 per license holder. Seventeen states have said 'no' to REAL ID – labeling it invasive, un-American, costly and an invitation to identity theft. They know it will force citizens to stand in long lines for licenses and endure numerous hassles looking for documents like birth certificates.

Now instead of listening to the states, the US Senate is trying to force them to comply through the back door. As part of immigration legislation being considered next week in the Senate, an employment verification system will be created that requires everyone to have a REAL ID in order to get a job.

There is still hope. There are two amendments that will remove REAL ID from the Senate immigration bill: take action now.

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This is the first time I have heard about this. Anyone else know more?

WANT (to live in)

The Weasley kitchen in the Burrow. Or my kitchen circa 2015.

Jonathan is on a build your own green living house kick.

He spends his evenings pouring over How To books, pouring over green living websites, and has checked out every carpentry and home building book the library has to offer.

I am fine with this. It keeps him off of the streets, and hey, it's a lot less expensive than WOW.

Jonathan plans on building our permanent residence, wherever we end up. (I have this weird feeling it will be New Zealand.)

I wasn't really feeling the passion until I came upon this link today:




http://www.simondale.net/house/