Communicatrix may be breaking new ground in the what-to-blog-if-you’ve-nothing-to-blog-about realm. Not content with that old standby of blogging the search terms people have used to find you (as I am) she’s sharing the sites she has Stumbled Upon using the fine Firefox extension of that name. Of...
Astounded by the news (via Harper's Weekly) that one of the poor saps whose AOL internet searches had been revealed for all the world to see had been looking for “easter cookie recipe for jesus' suffering,” I popped that sucker into Google. And you know what? There is such a thing!1 One of t...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 92.6 This week: 90.3
Friday 11 August: Yesterday, my total solid intake before evening -- and it was not that solid -- was half a (small) slice of watermelon. From time to time a little pang of hunger would grip me. But within minutes it would go away and I felt fine. No idea why. I ate pretty well the day before, but not excessively. And I have a cold, which sometimes suppresses the appetite. In the evening I felt I really ought to have something, and made a small plate (100 gm vs my habitual 125 gm) of linguine, with aglio, olio e peperoncino, as much to attack the head cold as to feed any hunger. It's the next best thing in the absence of hot and sour soup, and it worked, for a while. I find the absence of hunger really strange. And it cuts out some of the little joys of the day, like a slice of Sal's perfect simple pizza. But it does save time. And money.
At the Post Office:
Me: Good morning. I’d like five 80 cent priority stamps please.
Man behind counter: I’ll see. (Wanders off)
Me: (Drums fingers. Looks at scraps of paper on counter. Glances at watch.)
MBC: (Wanders back.) We don’t have any.
Me: (Voice a tad squeaky, incredulous...
Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 92.6
Pleasantly surprised that I had not gained more during my holiday. There wasn’t that much eating out, which possibly helped, but I also found it easier to resist temptation, much of the time. Didn’t eat a single Peanut Butter Cup, which would have been u...
