I'll buy this round, if you like.

A basic idea (if I've understood correctly, big IF as always) is that "value" is the starting point, and assuming Chris agrees to becoming a member--do we have to sign documents?  Is it wise to (also) incorporate MMM as an LLP in the UK?  I am so new to all this--I suggest that rather than sending small money orders around (shall we say small = less than about fifty dollars/euros/pounds?), the "missing amounts" can be used as starting credits for the "new credits" part of the system?  I therefore will owe you and Chris (and anyone else who fronts money-cash) X credits (need to tie those credits to something...Chris...this is where I see all the diagrams slowly turning into...decisions...actions...), or rather: you and Chris are crediting me with X credits to, I dunno, create a first book?

Only one (slight, I hope) hindrance, and that is time.

At this point I think I am asking for a large(r) chunk of Chris's time (though I see benefits for him as well...heh...as Mandy Rice Davies said, "Well, he would, wouldn't he?", though the painting I've done must be worth something...)

Maybe I just continue to write strange diaries and that's okay for now?

What you say, senor Cook?  You like my painting?

So Paul: yes!

Or as Fran put it:

Here's another painting (not by me of course.)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.