My brain is refusing the information, with lots of harsh whispering like, "Cindy, that is NOT your business."

Huh. None of it sticks in my brain because it's all so irrelevant to me. I mean, what do I care what someone in a different industry, in a different part of the country, with a different background, makes or pays? So I go "huh," and then free up the brainspace.

Don't think I'm not judging you, you shameless woman.

I get not being able to disclose, but is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?

Oh, no, you'd lose the delightful contrast between the madcap lilt and the prosaic cash! Plus, it looks funny in Verdana.

Well, then, I stay.

is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?

No, it's actually very interesting, and it makes me wonder why I'm so damned bougie.

Relief from this binding sensation is found in needling Betsy.

Jesse is pretty much me on this. Though I did think it was curious how many of us (who I probably can't name now) seem to fall in the same general range.

Lilty, I was so pleased with myself when I caught up with Wonderfalls months after the broadcasts and caught where your name comes from.

yay I fixed my chair.

I only noticed that some saleries are about what I make part time - and people are living on them. and I noticed Betsy's morgage payment only because it is close to my two morgages on my house.

I'm always happy to offer ita relief.

I'd be free labor.

Ooh! I'll take you up on that -- we are so going to have a bale-raising party. A year or so down the road, though. It is fascinating, isn't it? And it would be just perfect for us out here, it's so dry. Our leaky sieve of a cinder block house now is even passive solar quite nicely, I can't imagine what a truly insulated house would be like.

We've got a buddy (the couple that owns the kennel we use in AZ) who are thinking about doing a strawbale addition to their house, and we're going to help them with it to gain experience for ours. Thinking about doing a workshop, too.

How's that work?

I work for a nonprofit and one of the areas it benefits has provided housing for us. The church owns a large campus (used to be a school) and we live in one of their houses, rent-free, in exchange for doing some work around the church and for working with their kids. We pay communal utilities ($200), it's not split out to our individual usage, and we pay to have water hauled in to our tank ($85).

It's nice in that it's cheap and enables us to live out here on what we make, but it's also a problem in that there's no actual landlord, so when things happen like, oh for example, the back half of our house floods with sewage while we're away, there's not actually any recourse. It's fixed now, btw, the old former missionary came out and dug up some old clean-outs we didn't know were there, and well, cleaned out the lines.

If i were running the porn site, I'd call the magazines, say, "I make x amount of money per week with it, and I'll put up a blank page for two weeks if you reimburse me for the loss" and then I'd feel superior while doing nothing for two weeks.