https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2nzwbkj9TU

Good: serpent

Bad: surpant

Serpent has two E which can look like two EyEs of a sErpEnt.

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Here are a couple of notes, compliments of a video by chef Todd MOhr.

• Fish should have clear eyes. The clearer the eye the fresher the fish.
• The flesh under the gills needs to be redder than older fish. The brighter red gills represent fresher fish.
• Rub your finger against the scales. they should be tight and intact. If the scales come off on your finger, they are not the fresh.
• Fresh fish should smell like salty and fresh.
• A fish shop that smells fresh and like the ocean. It shows a shop that has fish that are turned over quickly and thus are usually fresh.

• Carry it everywhere go.
• Good for if you create every day.
• It has everything except for really big rants.
• Use my journal to document story seeds.
• Instead of playing on phone thing of a 3 words story. Use it for planning.

Good: Tomatoes

Bad: Tomoatoes

You don’t eat tomatoes in a moat. Sound it o and ToMaaTOES pronounced. Cherry tomatoes can be as small as toes.

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In light of the flooding in Houston, I asked Toastmasters this question for table topics: how would you prepare for a major earthquake?

Have backpack with cooking stuff, 72 hours of food, water, sleeping bag.  How prepared am I?  Where will I go?  Chaos all around.  Major gas leak so has to leave the neighborhood.  What if my roommate is alive but has a broken leg.  2 backpacks have to carry and help roommate move.  To coalesce all efforts of prep, what can you do in next 24 hours will influence your survival.

He was raised in San Fran so earthquakes not foreign.  Never had a level 7 but did have tremors.  Mother would call him into her room and show him trinkets shaking on the wall.  Cars and buses up and down the street in front of his house used to shake the house a little.  Used to think was traffic, but sometimes the shaking was a little more intense than the traffic.  See whole cabinet shake.  Mother taught him to stand in door frames or under tables.  School taught the same and had earthquake drills like hurricane drills in the south.  Learned how to prepare.  Aftermath, not something they talked about.  1^st go get water, and could live a while catching fish and living in the mountains.

A year ago last Christmas, got prepared as Christmas present to children and gave them 72-hour kits.  Packets of food in kit and husband got excited about preparing the kids too.  Added a hatchet and the kit became 1000 pound.  Had little cookers, bbq sauce, canned chicken.  Bbq chicken over rice.  Christmas morning, had them cook their own breakfast with their 72-hour kits.  Been prepared 5 times in life, then lose track of where things are, things get dispersed.  Like to do something in future to calm fears, sister lives in Herriman and really into preparedness.  Had fire there and before that, had mock forest fire drill. What to do to clear land if forest fire comes.  People participated captains on street, made a website where you can call.  A year later when a fire happened, the process of evacuation and reporting ran like clockwork so that few of the houses were destroyed.  2 that were destroyed didn’t follow the plan the year before.  Would love to do a mock fire drill or disaster drill for the family.

Earthquakes can be a little exciting.  Was on a mission for about a month when in an earthquake in Los Angeles.  Lived in a 2^nd floor of apartments.  Place swayed.  People got excited, running out, car alarms were sensitive and were going off.  Ready for an earthquake, usually happen early in the morning or late at night.  Has a gas line running down the street right in front of my house.  This is a bug out situation.  Grab your stuff and go.  Throw stuff into the back of your car.  Want to have water and sugar.  Going to want to get away from things.  Then think.  Brain burns the most sugar. Sugar can help you think. Need something to feed you.  If you want to catch a rabbit, may be brain addled and not catch a rabbit.  Was also in LA riots and Northridge earthquake.  People get excited.  Protect yourself and get your family together.

I enjoy reading sci fi thrillers but not crazy aliens and planets.  Likes artificial intelligence and how it could evolve into something disastrous.  Books full of conspiracy theories enable us to do more things but fewer things.  Had a huge earthquake that hit and made us lose critical systems like electricity, plumbing, the internet.  How would we survive?  If any state is prepared, it’s Utah.  Emergency preparedness.  Thinks about the whole country and how many of us could respond to situations like that.  Technology enables us and handicaps us.

These are notes I took on a marriage class.

• Expectation is one the biggest causes of a troubled marriage.
• We are responsible for our own anger. Anger is a yielding to Satin’s influence. It is the sin that leads to hostile behavior. Uncheck anger can quickly lead to an explosion of harsh words.
• Elder Scott: interviewed a couple. Increase the peat and happiness in marriage at a BYU education week.
• Q: has your sealing/marriage been all the happiness you expected. Yes. Now we can do everything together.
• Q: how does he show his appreciation to you? He does little things for me.
• What does your wife do to make you happy? Everything she does make me happy.
• Do you make vital decisions together? We talk and discuss things that are coming up in our future. We rely upon Heavenly Father and make decisions by involving God.
• Q: how do you determine the highest priority in your marriage? Ever since we’ve met we have priorities. We meet together to reach the same goals. With common goals everting around follows that goal.
• Have you disagreed in our marriage? We have opportunities to learn and grow tougher. Because we have had different backgrounds we have different opinions. But we go to the lord help us come to a mutual decision.
• Do you study the scriptures together? We do after we have personal study and we come up with questions and we discuss those questions and we discuss it.
• Q: when I study scriptures with my wife. We would comment as we read. We will often direct our personal studies on topics that are the current concerns we have.
• Advice: the greatest things is spending personal time with my wife to ensure we have personal time with my wife and continue to fall in love with one another.
• President McKay says there is one time you can yell at your wife when the fire is on fire.
• What is the difference between a contract and a convenient? A contract is a legal agreement between two people. Covenant: Promise God becomes part of the agreement.
• You bring God into your marriage by aligning your lives to God and Christ’s principals.
• How does agency come into a contract: It is always our choice to follow through with our promises with God.
• The family is Staten’s primary target.
• We combat Satan’s efforts by determining our actions.
• We often want to apply our own solutions by relying upon ourselves. We don’t want to bother God with our concerns. We need to include God to help us.
• Ask, what is Satan doing to our kids and not just parents.
• Often a disagreement is actually just a miscommunication. Each partner is not trying to upset one another. Council with each other and with the Lord can help combat miscommunications. Counsel with love and trust that your partner has your best interests at heart.
• Mosiah 18:21
• 1 John 4:18
• 1 Peter 4:8
• John 13:34-35
• John 16:33
• 2 Nephi 31:20
• D&C 24:8
• Alma 38:12
• 3 Ne3phi 11:19-20
• Mosiah 3:19

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Good: lineage

Bad:  linage

EAGEr to learn you linEAGE? Then do a DNA test.

Or Lineage is when you search through the ages of time and search out your family line LINE – AGE

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