2465 Blind Spot

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Men don’t “shop”. They “go get it”.

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The fabric on the sun visors in The Man's car tattered. Partly it was that the fabric was a knit backed by foam, and the sun deteriorated the foam (Mitsubishi didn't think that one through very well), exacerbated by The Man's flipping the visors up and down multiple times a day all summer when he puts the convertible top up or down.

I told him I could recover them, but he rejected that idea. He spent a few weeks trying to find replacement visors. They don't exist as parts; you can get anything and everything else, including replacement parts for visor mirror lights, but not the visors themselves. And there seem to be no Eclipses in junkyards. None with visors, anyway. Trying to help, determined to come through for him, I paid $5 for an online national junkyard search, with no hits.

Several weeks ago he gave up and gave me the visors to reupholster.

I shopped for fabric. I did find exactly the same fabric as was originally used, but after thinking about it, I didn't buy it, because on the same rack in the fabric store was some really good (fake) leather. It was so good, so perfectly textured, you couldn't tell it wasn't real leather. The seats and dashboard in the car are black leather, and it would match perfectly. Better than the foam-backed knit stuff, which would probably deteriorate again in a few years. So I bought the leather.

And then it sat here for two weeks. I kept putting off doing it.

Today I realized why I kept putting it off.

Even though it would match the interior, even though it would last longer, even though it would look better, The Man wouldn't accept it. And that's why I hadn't mentioned to him that I wanted to use leather. I guess I thought maybe they'd look so good I could just spring them on him, and he'd have to like them.

Uh uh.

I do know better. Logic be damned. He can be awfully rigid sometimes, especially where that car is concerned. He loves her, calls her Widow, because she's a black Spyder. If it isn't exactly the same, he won't be happy. "Better" just isn't "the same".

So today I caved. I went back to the fabric store and bought the foam-backed knit.
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2464 Diet, Day 10

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Vick Gold: “The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease.
Sometimes it gets replaced.”

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What I ate yesterday:
2 coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Ham salad on wheat, lettuce, deli
MacIntosh apple, w. skin
wild black raspberries, a few from the yard
blueberries, 1c
Lean Cuisine Panini - Chicken, spinach, mushroom
Edy's fruit ice bar, grape
Water & tea
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 807 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 127 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 41g
Fiber - 14g
Fat - 16 (67g allowed)
Protein - 32 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 30 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 1392 (2402mg allowed)

Total weight lost since 6/17:
4.0 pounds
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2463 Eyewitness Identification

Friday, June 26, 2009

Disappointment is the distance between expectations and reality.

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I have always been troubled by eyewitness testimony. I know that I couldn't point at a person and say "He did it!" with any kind of confidence, unless it was a person I knew well from past association. And even then, if his life depended on my identification, I couldn't be that sure. I'd have to admit that I couldn't swear to it.

Once, in college, I clearly saw my mother, in profile, her little round nose and fluffy black hair, huge brown eyes, all 4'9" of her, walk past me down the dormitory hall, no more than six feet from me. She was wearing her favorite round black feather hat. She slid her eyes sideways and smiled at me, a common flirtatious habit of hers. Her feet were tiny in the narrow spiky-heeled sandals she favored. She walked into another girl's room.

I ran down the hall and burst into the room - and it wasn't my mother. It was the other girl's mother.

I'd have sworn in court that it was my mother. And since then, I have never trusted anyone's eyewitness identification, especially identification of a stranger. Too many people look too much like other people. Like, maybe there's a limited number of facial types, body types, hairstyles, and a limited number of combinations thereof.

My distrust has only been strengthened over the decades, especially after I've been told I absolutely did do this or that, the accuser is absolutely positive!, because they SAW me do it, saw me there. (Often. Frequently involving someone else's husband.)

The fact that I didn't, wouldn't, couldn't, doesn't matter. They know better than I do because they know what they saw. Sigh.

What brought all this up is the following optical illusion. Quoting from the Discover Magazine blog:

"[Y]ou cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed. Colors are not what they appear, shapes are not what they appear ... objects are not what they appear.

So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get."

[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/]

You see a blue swirl, a pinkish orange swirl, and a green swirl, right?

Wrong. The blue and the green are exactly the same color.

Go to the above link for the proof and an explanation.

Also note that even though the illustrations look like rectangles, taller than wide, they are actually squares. Yeah, I measured.
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2462 Diet, Day 9

Friday, June 25, 2009

Political Correctness: The belief that anyone expressing a thought is responsible for the comfort of the person interpreting that thought.

Law #1 - You must not bother other people.

Law #2 - If you are other people,
you must not be bothered so easily.

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What I ate yesterday:
Yogurt, Dannon, coffee flavor
2 coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Bagel, toasted
Margarine, Promise, 2 tbsp
Watermelon, 8 oz
V8 veggie juice, 8 oz
Diabetic Dinner - Roast beef, potato, broccoli
Water & tea
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 992 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 131 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 46g
Fiber - 8g
Fat - 34 (67g allowed)
Protein - 56 (47g allowed)(but I suspect that's ok)
Cholesterol - 55 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 1450 (2402mg allowed)

Total weight lost since 6/17:
3.0 pounds
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2461 Antigravity Platter Player

Thursday, June 25, 2009

"All general statements are false."

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Wow! I want this!

The base holds the platter up, and the red ball contains the needle and amplifier, and speakers, and travels around the grooves. Groovy!

From http://dvice.com/archives/2009/06/void-lp-player.php
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2460 More Bake Sale

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michel de Montaigne: “The man who thinks he knows
does not yet know what knowing is.”

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Yesterday's bake sale post garnered a comment from a representative of FIRE, a legal aid-ish organization dedicated to the protection of individual freedoms and due process on American campuses. They are involved in the bake sale issue. He (the commenter) gave me a link to further information on the issue - which I appreciate. I went there and read stuff. It's fascinating, if you like that kind of thing.

I responded to his comment. But since few people go back to read responses to their own comments, let alone read additional comments left since their last visit, I've chosen to reproduce it here. (And if you're interested, check out the FIRE link.)

Brandon, FIRE said...

For the most recent update in this case, please read:

Bucknell Lies Again
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/10797.html

6/25/09 2:24 PM

~~Silk said...

Thank you for the link. I read the top five missives.

I am not on any particular side on the issue. My point is that I'm tired of the First Amendment being expanded to cover anything and everything anyone wants to do, anywhere.

In fact, the shutdown of the "Obama dollars" distribution fits a charge of suppression of free speech better than the bake sale thing, so one has to wonder why the bake sale was chosen as the straw.

I went to college in the mid-60's, the heyday of sit-ins. Folks who participated in sit-ins expected to be arrested, and were arrested. In fact, sit-ins were specifically engineered to result in arrests, since that got the publicity, and drew the most attention to the issues.

Having been trained as a court mediator, I don't quite understand why the college and the students don't sit down at a table and negotiate interpretation of the rules so that both can be satisfied. In fact, I will happily volunteer my services.

But, I have a feeling the students don't want compromise, even if such compromise would allow them to get their message out in the way they want to.

Back to my point, my only real objection is the bloat of the First Amendment.

6/25/09 3:29 PM

If I have any other thoughts, it's amazement at how the administration fell so neatly into the trap. And it was a trap.
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2459 Snow Job

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The less capable we are in a job, the more confident we are that we do it well. The less capable we are of making a decision, the more confident we are of that decision.

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(Randomly generated quote above - any relation to what follows is incidental and unintended.)

This is the theater at a local liberal arts college:
(Above photo © Jackie Craven, from an architecture website, used without express permission for the purpose of commenting on the design.)


Take a good look at the roof, keeping in mind that we get snow here. It's possible for two feet of snow to fall during a performance. Note the dip right over the doors.

Do you see the same thing I see?

It's a funnel.

There'll be a snow fortress at the edge of the apron in front of the doors. Amusing.

Interesting rain runoff distribution, too. One of these days when it's pouring, I'll have to visit the building and see how much water is pouring where. And how much it splashes, where.
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2458 Diet, Day 8

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Stephen Colbert: "Facts have a notorious liberal bias."

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[Note to those arriving here by searching for "2458 diet" - this has nothing to do with "2458". My posts are sequence numbered, and this just happens to be the 2458th post. This is probably not what you're looking for.]

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Yeouch! Can you tell I went to the grocery store yesterday afternoon? Lottsa yummies, and it shows.

I tried to buy a lot of fruit, but the peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums in the IGA were all rock hard. I suppose there are markets somewhere around here where you can buy local ripe fruit, but I'm not willing to travel that far.

What I ate yesterday:
Oatmeal, cinn toast flavor, no milk
2 coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Orange, fresh
Yogurt, Dannon, coffee flavor (I gave in)
Blueberries, 1c
Bruschetta (tomato, onion, peppers) .5 C
Wheat thins, Nabisco, .77 oz
Diabetes Dinner- Pollack, mac&cheese, stewed tom.
Watermelon chunks, 8 oz
Water and tea
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 1134 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 159 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 69g
Fiber - 15g
Fat - 36 (67g allowed)
Protein - 55 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 145 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 1137 (2402mg allowed)

Total weight lost since 6/17:
1.5 pounds
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2457 Is a discriminatory bake sale free speech?

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion,
but not his own facts.

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Also not his own definitions. The facts:
"Loan" is a noun. "Lend" is the verb. When you lend money, you grant a loan.
"Invite" is a verb. "Invitation" is the noun. You invite someone by sending an invitation.

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Watching a video clip of hamsters running in a wheel reminded me of white mice I had once, long ago. Their wheel was on a metal stand, with flat metal spokes attached to the wheel. One day one mouse was inside the wheel and another mouse was on top, spinning it very quickly, and the inside mouse got off the wheel on the wrong side. She got caught between the support and a spoke, and it cut her in half. Traumatic. Ever since then I get wheels with closed backs.

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I'm a bit tired of litigants and lawyers stretching the meaning of "freedom of speech" beyond all reasonable limits. The intent of the Founders was that one could not be prosecuted for criticizing the government in speech or text.

Now it's bake sales. A conservative student group at Bucknell University has protested affirmative action by running a bake sale with different pricing based on the buyer's race. A white male student would pay, for example, $1 for a cupcake, and a black buyer would be charged only 50 cents.

The college administration shut them down, because racially discriminatory practices are not allowed. And now it's headed for court.

Ok. I understand what the students are saying. I understand that they figure this is the best way to get the point across (and anger a few people). But I do NOT agree that it's a free speech issue. If they had argued on street corners or in the lounge, or printed and distributed pamphlets, or wrote an article, fine. But charging different prices is not what I understand as free speech. Free commerce maybe, but that's not what the First Amendment is about.

There's a short article at http://blogs.wsj.com/... (Wall Street Journal law blog).

The legal beagles seem to be coming down on the side that yes, this is a First Amendment protected activity, but the First Amendment doesn't apply on a private college campus. I don't agree with either part of that sentence.
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2456 Diet, Day 7

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

{NOTE:  People keep finding this post by searching for "2456 Diet".  I suspect this post is NOT what  you are looking for.  "2456" is simply the sequence number for this post, not the name of the diet I'm on.  Sorry.}

M R mice.
M R not.
S A R! C M ED BD paws?
L I B! M R mice!

M R snakes.
M R not.
S A R! C M BD Is?

M R teachers.
M R not.
S A R! C M MT pockets?

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What I ate yesterday:
2 coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Oatmeal, S'mores flavor, no milk
Tomato, small fresh
Ham, Hormel canned 5 oz
Mayonnaise, 2 tbsp
Green sweet pickle relish, 2 tbsp
Stir-fry mixed veg, raw, 1.5 cup
Starbucks Frappuccino 9.5 oz (ok, fell off wagon!)
Water
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 852 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 91 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 56g
Fiber - 5g
Fat - 43 (67g allowed)
Protein - 31 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 85 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 1980 (2402mg allowed) (Wow! That's the ham salad.)

Total weight lost since 6/17:
1.5 pounds (Hmmm. fluctuates by as much as three pounds during the day. I'll just leave it at the lowest point, and hope the lows keep getting lower.)
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2455 Diet, Day 6

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Doctor Who: "What is life? It's a way of keeping meat fresh."

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What I ate yesterday:
2 coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
pasta, mushroom, sauce (6/19 doggie bag)
grits, Quaker original pkg
Margarine, Promise, 2 tsp
MacIntosh apple, w. skin
Ice cream - eskimo pie
wild black raspberries, a few from the yard
Stouffer's turkey dinner
Water
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 972 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 93 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 4g
Fiber - 15g
Fat - 34 (67g allowed)
Protein - 20 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 60 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 1411 (2402mg allowed)

Total weight lost since 6/17:
1.5 pounds

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For many years I've been telling people I will gain weight if I eat more than 1000 calories a day, and the reaction has always been a snort, and "no way!"

I've been very good about tracking calories this past week. I averaged 799 calories a day over the past six days, and I don't feel hungry or deprived. I'm fine. I miss my yogurt, and I think I may add that back in. Otherwise, I miss nothing else.

This diet is giving me an understanding of how calories and exercise relate in my body. I've increased my activity level a little bit this week, and I credit that for the 1.5 pound loss. The gain of 15+ pounds since last November is due, I think, to a daily Starbucks Frappachino (sp?) and an occasional candy bar, without a corresponding activity increase. When I get to my target weight, I should be able to figure out how I can have frapps and candy bars occasionally without gaining.

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Update: I just made myself some ham salad, using Hormel canned ham. I usually like salty things. I'm more partial to potato chips than a piece of cake. But my tongue has already changed, I guess. This ham salad is so salty I don't really want it! And that's sayin' somethin'!
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2454 "Doing something" about Iran

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.

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Yesterday on The View, the token right-winger Elizabeth was all het up that President Obama should "Do Something" about the situation in Iran. Pressed to define exactly what she meant by "something", she had no answer.

By the way, Elizabeth is almost always on the opposite side of the table on every issue, and she sometimes gets emotional about her opinions, resulting in some nasty spats. People have wondered why The View keeps her. Entertainment news has occasionally reported that Barbara is ready to dump her.

That's called "publicity", folks. The View needs her, or someone like her. Otherwise, one of the women would say "Blah blah", and the others would say "Yup", "Uh huh", "Word", "Agreed". That's not interesting. Why watch. The public doesn't really want a car race. They want a flaming crash, and that's what Elizabeth provides.

...And, she's very young, so her views don't carry a lot of weight, which suits the producers. She's going to be on that show as long as she wants to be. (You've got to admire her for climbing into that car every morning.)

Anyhoo, back to "doing something". Field says it better than I could at http://field-negro.blogspot.com/. Please go read it. I especially liked his observation near the end:

"And finally, here is a little bit of irony to consider: Neda [Me: the 16-year-old woman shot by a sniper whose searing photo has become a symbol] might not even have been alive to protest if the neocons had their way. The very same neocons who are now screaming for us to stand behind the Iranian people would have bombed them into oblivion if they had their way under the frat boy."

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Later: I just watched today's press conference. I hope people were listening.
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2453 Can a song predict the future?

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Augustine of Hippo: “Men are so blind that they even take pride in their blindness.”

This applies also to political groups, and especially reprehensible
are those who see and take advantage of the blindness of others.

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You can find out what the #1 song was on a particular date at http://www.joshhosler.biz/.

I tried 9/11/01, and found that the top song that day was "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys.
The top song on my birthday, 10/27/44, was "You Always Hurt the One You Love" by The Mills Brothers.
On Daughter's birthday, 10/19/75, it was "Bad Blood" by Neil Sedaka.
On Jay's birthday, 03/05/52, "Cry" by Johnnie Day & the Four Lads.
The day Jay and I were married, 01/07/94, "Hero" by Mariah Carey.
The day Jay died, 10/29/01, it was "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige.
I tried The Man's birthday, and it was scary. I can't put it here because it would give away my legal name.
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2452 Othello Rap

Monday, June 22, 2009

William Shakespeare: "They do not love that do not show their love."

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I don't choose the specific quote that shows up on these posts. The one above just happened to be the next in line. Serendipity.

The Shakespeare company did "Othello" in rap Friday night. The Man enjoyed it so much he wanted to hear it again, and he found a version on YouTube (actually, several). This is a different staging, different company, but it is what we saw. Enjoy.


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tWoKm7cYM]

The entire performance is on YouTube in parts, some of which will be offered across the bottom of the above after you watch the rap. Set aside your next vacation or sick day....
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2451 Diet - Day 5

Monday, June 22, 2009

What I ate yesterday:
quiche, broccoli cheese
1 c broccoli, steamed
Iced tea, unsweetened
bagel, poppy seed
cream cheese
Diabetic Dinner - chicken chow mein, orient vegs
Water
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 995 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 97 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 5g
Fiber - 8g
Fat - 42 (67g allowed)
Protein - 54 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 70 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 270 (2402mg allowed

Weight lost since 6/17
I gained 1 pound.
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2450 Blog Birthday!

Monday, June 22, 2009

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe themselves to be free.”

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Today is this blog's fifth birthday! It all started on Friday, June 22, 2004, on AOL Journals, as a way to pull myself out of the long depression I was in after Jay's death. My first ever blog entry is here.

There are two pieces - the earliest incarnation is "Moraine", which I abandoned when AOL began adding advertising to people's private journals, and then transferred the content from AOL to Blogger when AOL journals died. Moraine contains entries from June 22, 2004 to November 16, 2005. The second piece is this one.

At first I wrote a lot about frustrations left over from my work life, then I wrote about the relationship with Jay, and the brain cancer battles. In mid-2005 I started dating, accidentally, and the next year was filled with confusion and anger over Roman's perfidy. If I had any sense, I'd delete all those posts, but if I'm going to mention intelligence, I ought to balance it with stupidity. Those were some of the most exciting posts, anyway.

Well, it wasn't entirely stupidity. I predicted that when Roman's mother died, he'd break up with the other woman within months, and then he'd want me. He did break up with her three months after his mother's death in January 2007, and he did tell me that he was wrong and realized what he had lost and that he wanted me back. Unfortunately for him, I had just met The Man.

Roman and I are still friends, sort of, but the relationship pundits are right. Maybe it could work if neither of the parties wanted to start up a romance again, but when one does and the other doesn't, it is strained. And no, even if The Man disappeared, I don't think I'd turn to Roman. I see a lot of things now that I didn't see before.

The blog has evolved. I go back and reread old entries, and I marvel at some of them. I had things to say! Philosophy and religion, psychology and sociology. Passionate diatribes and arguments. I don't do that much any more, don't write much about my thoughts any more. Either I've already expressed everything I've ever thought about, or I've become more reticent (yeah, sure). I don't know what's going on.

I think this is the point at which most blogs die, when the bloggers start to think there's nothing more to say, when they wrack their brains trying to think of interesting things to entertain their readers. I'm not about readers. I'm not trying to entertain anyone. This is entirely for me. I have no desire to quit. I'm getting older, and frankly, this is my memory aide.

I do have a private diary on my hard disk, where I do explore what's going on in my life and my mind. Speculate. My original intent was to keep that one current, but I actually update it only once or twice a month. I rarely go back through entries. I don't know why. I often dig through the archives here.

(One argument I have with Blogger is that the archives are difficult to navigate. If you click on a year in the archives list, you'll get not the earliest posts of that year, but the last month. You have to use the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page to get to the prior month, 11 times to get to January of that year. I think Blogger should change that. When you select a year from the archives, it should then generate a list of months from that year. Too bad they didn't ask me for advice.)

So, happy birthday, Blog. May you have many more.
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2449 The weekend

Sunday, June 22, 2009

Abraham Lincoln: "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

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Catching up:

Friday evening I went to a "dinema" in Beacon. That's dinner and cinema. Sorta like dinner theater, but with movie instead of play. They showed the movie between the entree and dessert.

There were 17 in our group, and the movie was a 1966 British farce (of the "Carry On" tradition) called "Don't lose Your Head". It was a parody of "The Scarlet Pimpernel".

I felt odd. Most movies I've seen over the past few years, I've been alone or with Mensans. And yeah, sometimes we laugh at things nobody else laughs at. About a third of the way into the movie, I was aware that I was not with Mensans. I, all by myself, laughed at stuff that no one else laughed at, and those were the things I laughed hardest at. I guess no one else got some of the jokes - subtle puns and historical references. Strange. I didn't expect that. They must have thought I was nuts. On the other hand, they laughed at the physical comedy, and I didn't.

I didn't get home until the wee hours, and then had to get going on Saturday to meet The Man in Fishkill. He'd got us an apartment. Kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom downstairs, and another bathroom and a bedroom upstairs, on a balcony overlooking the living room. I was almost an hour late meeting him because the traffic was so bad.

Friday night and Saturday morning's traffic was worse than I've ever seen it in this area. It used to take me an hour to get to Beacon or Fishkill. Both of those trips took more than an hour and a half. I don't understand.

Anyway, The Man and I had dinner and then went to the Shakespeare festival at Boscobel:

The play was not the usual Shakespearean fare. It was "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged". It's a specialty of this troupe, performed by three actors and a prop mistress. They cover the highlights of many of the major plays, with lightning costume changes, and a complete disregard for the script, even combining a few things in the interest of time, if not clarity, and often involving the audience in the action. It's a riot.
The last play was Romeo and Juliet, and they covered the whole story in minutes, with wigs and skirts and swords flying. Then, they said they could do it faster, so they did. Then a third time even faster. Then they did a super fast version - backward! Even the dialog ("listen for the satanic messages").***

It was enjoyable, but we can't claim we went to a Shakespearean play....

Today we went out for lunch, and then to a movie. We saw "Up". The Man had mentioned two weeks ago that he wanted to see it, but couldn't find any kids to take him to it. (He was about ready to kidnap a kid in the mall to have an excuse to go.) I promised him I'd try to be a kid.

It was pretty good, actually. The Man was disappointed because it wasn't 3D in the theater in Fishkill (hey, we're the boonies!), but I'm not sure I could have handled it in 3D. I have a problem with edges (not height, really, just edges with drops), and at least five times during the movie I got that rubbery feeling in the back of my knees and had to close my eyes.

So, now I'm home.

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***Later edit - Oops. It was Hamlet that was last, that they did over, faster, and then backwards.
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2448 Diet - Days 3 and 4

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Aristotle: "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

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This gets a lot harder when one eats out. I have to guess at a lot, look things up on the internet, and fill in the blanks with approximations. I may be off by a bit (especially where sugar, fat, and cholesterol are concerned), but not by enough to make it completely worthless.

What I ate Friday, 6/19:
Orange, fresh
coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Omelet - tomato, basil, turkey bacon, mango & berries
Iced tea, Lipton diet
coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
salad greens, berries, nuts, goat cheese
pasta, mushroom sauce
bread pudding
Earl Grey tea
Water
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for Friday, 6/18:
Calories - 1012 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 88 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 10g
Fiber - 18g
Fat - 46 (67g allowed)
Protein - 53 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 30 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 650 (2402mg allowed)

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What I ate yesterday:
coffee, coffeemate vanilla sugar free
Iced tea, unsweetened
Beets, roasted, 1/2 cup
salad, diet ranch
grits, Quaker original pkg
Water
The usual vitamins and minerals, not included in totals below.

Totals for yesterday:
Calories - 389 (out of 1153 allowed)
Carbs - 43 (299g allowed)
Sugar - 8g
Fiber - 9g
Fat - 19 (67g allowed)
Protein - 3 (47g allowed)
Cholesterol - 25 (297mg allowed)
Sodium - 325 (2402mg allowed)

And I got lots of exercise yesterday....
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