Page Updates for 2022

April 27, 2022

They Were Lawyers.  New features, "but then" added to the bottom regarding people who started off to become lawyers, but then were diverted before barred or graduating law school.  February 4, 2022.

Both the Killetarian Cookbook and Cast Iron have been updated with the same entry, the same being orange stuffed roasts duck.  April 3, 2022.

Sometime during the last twenty four hours, there were two hits on an old Wyoming Cheese Steak item from the main site.  I realized I hadn't linked that old thread over to the Killetarian Cookbook, even though the recipe was there, so I added it.  April 27, 2022.

October 26, 2022

Antenna movement on my 1997 Jeep TJ Project page.

November 7, 2022

Ukrainian field cooking in cast iron.

April 29, 2023

They Were Lawyers.  Olga Bigar.

May 15, 2023

Yeoman's Laws of Behavior

Yeoman's Eighteenth Law of Behavior:  Some people like secrets (and some people do not).

This is an odd one to me, as I'm not in that category.  I despise secrets. Therefore, I'm in the opposite camp.

Secrets are necessary.  It's just part of the way the world works, in certain things.  Lawyers keep a lot of secrets all the time. Governments do as well. The Seal of the Confessional binds priests to keep secrets, but also those who overhear confessions by accident.  All secrets, however, are a burden upon the people who are entrusted to keep them.

Which is why personally I don't like them, if they aren't necessary.

But some people love making things secret, and often for no logical reason at all. They'll entrust all kinds of information to another on the basis that "this is a secret".

In some routine, common interactions, I understand that.  People entrust medical information, financial information, or just personal information, to others as they need and desire their participation in a matter, but also desire it to be confidential for some personal reason.  I'm not referencing that, however.  Some people simply like secrets.

Indeed, I'm familiar with an instance in which a group of siblings routinely make things secret. Why?  No idea. They just like things being secrets, I guess.  The secrets are always of a nature that they cannot be kept long term, however, and they always blow up at a point late in the day when their revelation comes forward.  This is related, I think, to the next item.

The problem, FWIW, of unnecessary secrets is that they are amongst those most likely to compel a person to lie, that being in part the person that is entrusted with the news.  "Did you hear that Dick and Jane are going to Hawaii on vacation?. . . Um. . . . "  Lying itself is a burden, and to Apostolic Christians, a sin.  

For those in the opposite camp, who are often those who are highly reliable with secrets, it's all a burden.

Yeoman's Nineteenth Law of Behavior:  Some people like drama in their lives, and will create it is its absent.

Everyone is burdened or blessed with some drama, the burden or the blessing being dependent upon the nature of the drama.   But some people so enjoy drama, that they'll create if it is absent.

Everyone has seen somebody whose life is a constant swirl of personal drama.  It's one thing to be born into a problem of evolve into it, but if a person constantly has interpersonal drama, it's likely they're creating it.

The question of why is an existential question, but the behavior is fairly apparent.  If a person lives a life that resembles the members of the cast of Vanderpump Rules, at least in their telling, they're likely writing their script that way.