Sorry to disappoint you, but this is actually a serious informational blog, nothing at all to do with Bruce Campbell, skeletal armies, or books bound in human flesh. Though you can always hope. No, instead I just wanted to inform my friends and readers about something my grandmother introduced me to. She’s a sharp lady. Seriously. She can still hurt me, and takes pleasure in doing it when possible. So I have to credit her with showing me this, because I value my life. A little.
There’s a group called the Angel Food Ministries, a non-denominational group that operates in 35 states, helping to bring lower cost foods to communities once a month. And let me tell you, for $30, you get quite a bit of food (I just spent $70 today for two people for one week at the grocery store, by comparison 
). Plus they always have special add on boxes for $18-$20 more that have all kinds of steaks or chicken or stuff. I can’t find on their site where the money goes, but I’m sure beyond paying for the operating costs, it probably goes to some Random Good Cause™. At least we can hope. I’ll ask the nice person at the church here if they know.
Their web site offers up the following sample menu for a random month. Keep in mind that the menu changes every month, and this is not an actual one:
If you want to see for yourself, go look at February’s menu. Sirloin strip steaks, chicken breasts, ribs, produce, not to mention the special boxes with New York strips, prime rib, or tons of chicken. You go to whatever church is serving your area (there’s a locater on their web site), place your order, come back later that month, and pick it up. It’s terribly simple. For Pittsburg, there are three churches doing it, of them, only Trinity Baptist Church is online. They do keep their menus and ordering forms current though.
You should probably prepare for a bit of a wait, as the service is getting popular, and there will generally be lines. You can see a sample image to the left of what one of the boxes looks like. Actually, I think you end up with like a couple boxes, or a box and a bag or something. Also be prepared to make a lot of room in your freezer. But, if you’re anything like me, this is a crazy good deal, because I don’t cook a ton right now, so that’s easily 2-3 weeks worth of groceries for me, and I never buy that much fresh meat (now, spoiled and bad meat is another story…) to just have on hand.
So there you go, consider yourself informed.
Wow…this has been an interesting couple of days. As if I needed more stress right now. Southeast Kansas has been hit by a sort of surprise ice storm the past two days. Pittsburg itself looks nearly like a war zone. Trees are down absolutely everywhere. Twice yesterday I was out shoveling the walk and took off running when trees fell and hit houses across the street. Luckily, no damage or anyone hurt. But it’s a crazy weird sound to stand outside and you can just hear that *snapcrackchshhhhh* sound every few seconds around the neighborhood.
Where our luck went bad was with power. We’ve been facing constant random power outages. Fortunately, the last one wasn’t long, and was fixed before it got down to 53 degrees like it did in the afternoon. We had been planning to stay with Steve and Cassie to stay warm after that one, but the power came back before it got to that. Then it went again, and this time took Steve’s place with it, so by then, it was blanket time. That was fixed fairly fast though, and we have been good since. Where our luck also went bad was when I nearly lost the front of the house. We have a big tree in the front yard. It’s one I knew I’d need to get rid of soon, I just hadn’t planned on an ice storm in early December. Well, yesterday campus closed, so I went home early and found this tree, and several tons of it’s branches and ice, split right down the middle. It was happily ready to fall right on the house.
I have no clue what was holding it together, given the trees around town that had broken under lesser circumstances. Spit and willpower on my part, I think (well, maybe not spit, but definitely willpower. Lots and lots of willpower). Luck went good when it turned out A-1 Tree Service made me a priority and got it chained back to the good part of the tree and trimmed a bunch of weight from the top. Let us not discuss the cost this has dropped on me, aside from saying goodbye to Christmas, but hello to an insurance claim.
So right now, I’m pretty on edge. The tree, while less of a threat, is still a concern until we get it gone completely. And there’s more storm on the way. The money is probably going to come from a credit card, just when I was nearly out of credit card debt. All and all my stress level, which has been on the decline, has now spiked in impressive fashion. I really need to work on my meditation. But, it could have been much worse, and we are probably totally in the clear now, so, let’s call it Epic Luck.
After conferring with the SuperSatellite co-founder this evening, I wanted to let everyone know that Greg has set up a new site over at SimiusMagnus.com. There’s nothing up just yet, but he’ll be doing a lot of the familiar stuff from the old SuperSatellite: reviews, articles, thoughts. Be sure to drop by and check it out.
Also, I’m sure you’ve noticed some changes here. I have decided on a nice theme I think, using Hemingway Reloaded. I’ll be doing some heavy modifications to it to mold it to my liking, but why re-invent the wheel, right? Once that’s done, it will be off to the races with articles I have planned.
Are you here looking for the old SuperSatellite.com? Wondering what happened? Well, you’re not in the wrong place, but SuperSatellite.com is going to be new and improved. Well…that, and a completely different site. I’m still Michael, the guy that set it up many…many…many moons ago, now I’m just all growed up. Stay tuned.
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