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A very funny guy. This plays automatically, so be prepared:
On the illness front, spent most of yesterday sleeping off pain. Better today, but in general feel like crap. I was doing well for awhile. It was nice. I will do better again, I always do.
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Not getting into it, but I love this protest.
Been having lots of leg pain since going out the other day. Limping around with the ow! ow! ow! going on. Not sure what to do about the getting less mobile as time goes on. I have tried to do more walking or other exercise at different times, but it only seems to make things worse. It’s the old catch-22. If I don’t exercise, my muscles get weak and thus it is harder to move. If I exercise, my muscles stay weak and I have a lot more pain. How does one fix that? I’d like to try some totally off-the-wall, guaranteed-to-cure-what-ails-you diet, but they all require preparing food for cooking and then cooking it. I don’t have that kind of energy, most days. Is there a catch-99, cause I think I’m in it. If I was rich, I’d hire my own private chef, but since I’m not Oprah, and don’t care to be, I guess that’s not in the cards.
I did clean out my Aerogarden today, and ditched the basils, which had sort of gone by the by. I’m trying to salvage a bit of each, but don’t know if they will take root or not. I put a couple of the smallest tomato plants in three of the slots, so maybe they’ll actually grow. They are not doing at all well in the pot, but I left the rest in there anyway. The things that have done the best, probably because I didn’t trim back the others as well as I should have, are the parsley, the thyme, and the mint. I also moved the whole shebang onto the tiny counter by the far side of the stove, and put the new toaster oven in it’s place. Love my toaster oven. It actually makes real toast, not warm bread, or burnt bread. I’ve cooked some bacon in it, too, and it’s fast and does a great job. I’m going to try baking something in it, as soon as I get up the energy to bake something in it. It was 30 dollars in Walmart, and well worth it.
This is the Neilsen book week, started Thursday, and so far I’ve only watched about three hours of tv, one of them On Demand. There’s no place to write On Demand viewing, so I just put it in a regular slot but said it was OD. Will they care? Do I? You can comment in the back, so I said I prefer On Demand or Hulu because I get too annoyed with the incessant commercial breaks to watch regular tv much. I don’t think they’ll care about that, either. Nobody wants to hear my opinions on these things. I do not understand why. No, no I don’t. That’s all, folks.
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Not feeling quite as good as I have been, but not too much more pain. Went out today to do a bit of shopping with a friend, and mostly sat on a bench and enjoyed the lovely fall day while she went off to find a tea-strainer at a kitchen store. It was gray, but had that quality of light that I find indescribable, but which combined with the almost leafless trees and the fall colors just makes me feel very contented. I couldn’t find a good picture, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. Here’s a picture of the Tardis instead. I should start taking my camera with me when I go out. Here are a couple of things from today’s internet:
1. Do you like Legos? I used to play with them as a kid. I don’t think I will take them up again, but I do like seeing what others do with them on this site:
http://www.brothers-brick.com/
2. Remember the Berlin Wall? More great pictures from Boston.com here:
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If you don’t watch Madmen, what is wrong with you? Kidding, just kidding. Last night’s season finale was the best episode yet of a show that was already unbelievably well written and acted. Jon Hamm is so good at displaying the dark side, the soft side, the ruthless side, the uncertain side (yes, I know that’s a lot of sides, folks). It is a pleasure to watch him. The rest of the cast are just as amazing. Check out this show if you haven’t seen it before. You won’t be sorry.
On the other issue, I have been called again for jury duty. Now, I would love to do my civic duty and sit on a jury. Unless of course it was a gory murder with pictures. But I think it would be fascinating to see how the justice system really works, as opposed to how we think it works from watching tv. If I were well, I would do this without a second thought. But since I am not well, I need a letter from my doctor. I had one last time I was called, and I thought it was a permanent disqualifying letter, but apparently not. New doctor now, and I’ve only seen him twice, so I hope this doesn’t become a big deal. I get tired. I get stressed. When I am tired and/or stressed, I cannot think well. I cannot remember things. It would be wrong to put me in a position of deciding on someone else’s guilt or innocence if my brain is not working well. I hope my doctor gets this. I need to call him tomorrow and get this sorted out.
I spent my whole life not being called for jury duty, and now I have been called twice since I became ill. What’s that about?
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Here are some amazing pictures of Mars. Mars. It boggles the mind, unless you were born after the moon landing, I guess. Here’s the link.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html
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Yes, I know I watch too much sci-fi, but seriously. Look at these pictures and tell me this creature doesn’t look like something from outer-space. There are a lot of creatures that would make great aliens in sci-fi shows, but are actually inhabitants of planet Earth. That is so cool.
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a010535647bf3970b0120a6abbb14970c
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I can’t understand half of what they’re saying, but I love it anyway……and it’s TORCHWOOD.
>I like their music. I am posting from Scribefire, so not sure how this is going to come out.
>Thank goodness. http://www.lockergnome.com/forsythe/2009/10/30/youre-not-wasting-time-online-youre-brain-training/
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Castle is on, and Nathan is wearing his Firefly outfit. Or at least he was when I started this post. PC VERY slow tonight. Anyway……wooooohoooooo!! Here’s a link to the vid:
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Here’s a Doctor Who/Torchwood vid with Mamma Mia:
Here’s a Torchwood vid:
http://fanaticalwhovian.blogspot.com/2009/10/torchwood-with-enterprise-theme.html
>Fire scares me. In Colorado, I once saw a woman being taken into the ambulance after her house burned. She looked like she had a really deep suntan. She died. When I lived in NH, there was the horrific Malden Mills fire in Methuen, Mass. I remember the story about one man that was written long afterwards. It still haunts me. Then there was the Station Fire in Pawtucket, RI. I cannot imagine. Fire. It scares me.
But fire is beautiful, as well. The post was instpired by this video:
but I had already saved some pictures of fire that are beautiful.
Fire. It scares me and it’s beautiful.
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This is why they tried so hard to keep him from being sworn in……..the man has a brain and he’s not afraid to use it. I admire him. Seriously.
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Sometimes, I get so disgusted with the attitudes of some people who claim to represent my country that I just want to spit. Then I come across something like this, something that makes me feel proud again:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/86-year-old-wwii-vet.html
>Women in America are not doing very well, but still I think we are doing better than most of the women in the world. But this is America, I expect more. Read the report:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/maria-shrivers-report-on_b_325531.html
Here’s a good video about the state of the news industry today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp/moment-of-clarity—the-d_b_325470.html
>Gibbs: Are you superstitious?
Vance: I’m a little stitious.
My new favorite thing.
It’s almost as good as this:
Doctor Who: It’s a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey sort of thing.
>It seems I am going to be a Neilsen household for a week in November. Fun. I get to comment as well as record which shows I watch and boy am I gonna tell them to quit with the pop-ups and the huge logos when I’m trying to watch a show. Also, I would rather have longer but fewer commercial breaks. Watching some shows is like reading a chapter of a really good mystery and then having to read two chapters of Herbert Hoover’s biography before you can move on to the next chapter. Think they’ll listen? Yeah, me neither.
Still having pretty good days. Don’t know why, but I’m liking it. I even had my homemaker buy some winter squash and cabbage, which I am planning but not counting on having enough energy to prepare. I want to make stuffed cabbage as soon as ground turkey goes on sale, and I love winter squash. There is so much you can do with it. Cutting it is hard, though, so I have to be having a really good day, or microwave it a bit first, which I’ve never actually tried.
My homemaker is really nice. She’s fun to spend time with. She is young, with young children, and it is amazing how uninformed she is about things. She had no idea diet soda is bad for you, why you should never eat ground beef, what an acorn squash was. And that’s only the food-related things. I really like her. She asks a lot of questions and really wants to know things. Did I mention she’s fun? She is. *smile*
It’s getting colder by the day. The Neilsen guy was very friendly on the phone this morning. He said it was 90 in Florida, where he lives, and has been every day for awhile, and he is seriously considering moving back to Buffalo, NY, where he’s from. I’ve been to Buffalo, in the winter. Brrrr! I told him Massachusetts is very nice. LOL He said it didn’t used to be so hot all the time in Florida, you could have the windows open and fresh air, but now it’s a/c all the time. Unless there’s an ice age, I am never going to Florida. So!
Oh, if you want to know why you should never eat ground beef, here’s the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html
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The London Eye
A post from http://www.fightingfatigue.org/?p=7801 with a video of answers to that question. If you were completely well, what would you do? Needs thinking on.
I would get my apartment organized, decluttered, clean. I would get a dog. I would volunteer for things I feel passionate about. I would buy a car, renew my license, and go places again. I would visit friends without them having to come and get me and bring me home again. I would walk everywhere possible. I like walking, I just can’t anymore. Oh, the possibilities! I couldn’t go back to my old job, it’s been eleven years. I’d definitely have more fun. I’d love to go check out The Providence Zen Center. I only live a few miles away, and I’ve never been. I’d take a cruise. I’d go to Europe. I’d go to Cardiff, to see where Torchwood is set. Of course, some of these would depend on me winning the lottery first, or somehow falling into money. But most of all, I wouldn’t just sit here. It would be good. So, readers. What would YOU do?
>Yes I am a member of MoveOn. I am one of those left-wing liberals and proud of it. Here’s a link to an amusing video about health care reform.
http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/?id=17286-2765580-nzTZYRx&t=2
strangely peculiar 