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My pile of reference links for things I'm not actually currently working on is a giant memory-devouring hash, so pulling them off again:

Almost Idle's incremental game tutorial

Reddit recs for incremental game source code trawls

Particle clicker source code


How to implement main character selection in RPGMaker


Tales and legends tag off lamus-dworski

Bread and Harvest rituals in Poland

Various paper flower crown links:
http://thehousethatlarsbuilt.com/2016/04/diy-paper-spring-floral-crown.html/
http://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-paper-flower-crown/

We live for words and die for words
Principles we can afford . . .

--"One By One", Chumbawamba

Discussion on rasfc about languages. Political influence on.

My great-grandparents (great-great? Mom hasn't been consistent) were subversives. Taught Polish when it was illegal.

Need to learn language. Honor ancestors who would have died for it.

Memory.

Apparently there's a legend-of-the-two-strangers in Polish history, associated with the Piast dynasty. I think I've seen that in Greek and Old Testament sources before -- the two strangers who are turned away from one or more places until they find someone who will take them in and feed them, and they bestow upon that house blessings. . . . I wonder what the ur-story for that is.

Beer and mead were brewed in the home, for regular use; wine didn't become popular until later. A chronicler in the 1400s noted that prince got a release from the Pope from an oath of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land because there was no beer or mead to be had there! Now that's taking your drink seriously. (It was also said that Pope Clement VIII was so fond of Warka beer that he cried out for it on his sickbed, and some of the cardinals took him for calling upon some saint.)

I find myself strangely tempted by some of these beer soup recipes. And the kashas look fine. Must experiment.

My father called to inform me that he's now single. We then got off onto a rambly discussion of monotheism and politics. I commented on the discussionargument I'm having on rasfc, with someone who can't quite wrap her head around the idea that someone can have a god and not have that god informing their moral choices. (Me, I think this question is soluble by the comment, "Have you actually looked at most of the gods there are stories about? Most of them are really big on that smiting thing.")

Heard from Mom; we're talking about family and heritage. Apparently, my (great?-)great-grandparents were subversives; they taught Polish. I'm pleased that I'd already decided I wanted to learn the language. I told her about dwojwierny; we'll see what comes of that. Though we haven't ever fought about religion. :}

I need to figure out if I'm doing anything special with the rice with dinner. I may do the saffron and honey rice again, which means poking at the rest of the food some I think to get it to balance right.