It's Ham. Man!

Nothing says "Christian" like ham.  After all, as a way to separate themselves from Muslims, and Jews early Christians ate pork.  Not that it's a religious thing, mind you, I'm thankful.  I love ham.  Growing up in the South I ate a lot of pork...bacon, ham, barbecue, sausage, and the list goes on.  I'm not a huge fan of pickled pigs feet, but I've been told they are yummy; though I'm sure those who attest to this only say so as a way to tempt others to try disgusting inedible animal parts.

As the ham is roasting in the oven we are happily anticipated slabs of yumminess.

They knocked on my door

The minister from the local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses knocked on my door today and dropped off a copy of the Watch Tower together with a bonus publication.  The additional publication outlined the pagan origins of Christmas and was rather thorough considering the source, though it did not contain any references to Krampus (the sinister devil of Chirstmas).  I found this to be particularly interesting considering the Witnesses' stance on Christmas.  I asked the minister if he had heard of Krampus and his expression explained his ignorance fully.  It seems that one more person of the cloth has closed his mind to only that which his synod deems important to reveal.

Dimensions of Noah's Ark

Given the description in the Genesis account Noah would have needed a huge supply of wood, access to master shipbuilders, sufficient funding to construct the barge, a massive amount of physical labor, and a good amount of food just to build the boat.  Odd that a man who was wealthy enough to undertake such project at the instruction of god, was not mentioned elsewhere in history.

The Epic of Gilgamesh names him Utnapishtim he is immortal and rather more interesting than Noah.  Utnapishtim builds his Ark as a 120 cubit cube.  Noah's Ark is much grander in scale measuring 300 x 50 x 30.