Tag: coot-proofing
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Indirect salute
Old folks have trouble with a slow-moving gut. Normally I can keep things going well enough with good diet and walks. The long hot summer messed with the diet and walks, and then a series of closely spaced difficult dental appointments built up tension to the point of definite constipation. I tried lots of different…
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Hello again, Full Circle
During the LONG hot weather I got twitchy and ‘snappy’, making premature decisions to cancel things. On July 27 I canceled the Full Circle food box service because I was wasting it. In hot weather I couldn’t spend much time in the kitchen and didn’t feel like eating much. Now I’m feeling the shortage of…
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Worklog inflation
Purely personal! In 2016 I started keeping a daily log of health. The first one started on Aug 6, so I’ve kept the same starting and ending date for each year. In the first year the log only listed dumps and sleeps, plus an occasional note of an event that caused stress. Each day was…
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Bye, Full Circle.
Back in October I started using a delivery service for organic food. Gradually I found that I was wasting more than eating. Cooking needs to be limited in hot weather, and fresh food takes more cooking time. Each order has a minimum quantity of about 20 pounds, which turned out to be more than a…
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Codger echo
Nice to see another codger echoing my feelings about sloped roofs. = = = = = START REPRINT: These clowns let the secret service agent get by with all sorts of nonsense. He said the roof of the sniper’s building was “sloped”, which requires “rappelling skills”. None of the agents were trained for rappelling, so…
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People are different
I’m a cool-weather critter. Always that way, even more with age. Happiest and most energetic between 30 and 60 degrees. The current heat wave wilts me. The air conditioner keeps the ambient air in the living room below 76, but my body picks up the radiant heat from ceiling and walls. The neighbor across the…
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Broader thought about narrower thought
Following immediately on the neurological connection of annoyance. Noticed this Chomsky quote in a random selecton of memes. = = = = = START CHOMSKY: The smart way to keep people obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow lively debate within that spectrum, even encourage the more critical and dissident…
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Skill pension
Amortizing pays. Storage pays. Never toss a possibly useful product! Now that I’m older and less energetic and less capable of complex programming, I can still USE the thousands of graphics items and Python tools I made during my peak period from 1995 to 2015. It’s a skill pension.
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Rarely discussed
Here’s a random chain of thought. This week I’m playing with a somewhat different graphics project after reaching saturation with the pinfeed to pigskin line. There’s a lot of detail work in this project, with absolutely no monetary benefit. For a moment I felt guilty about wasting time. Stupid! The cost and benefit of experimenting…
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Belt and suspenders
Rushfield hits the nail again in the middle of a general news column: = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: We’ve been living in an environment of very low-risk speculation thanks to a decade of low interest rates, also known as a speculative bubble. That affected entertainment as much as anything else, as people poured…
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Oddity about dream locations
I started life in Oklahoma, then spent much of the ’50s and ’60s in Manhattan. Spent the ’70s all over Oklahoma: Enid, Ponca, Norman, OKC, Shawnee, Stillwater. Early ’80s in the KC area, late ’80s at Penn State. Moved to Spokane in 1990, here ever since. My dreams were ALL located in Oklahoma until about…
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Nice to see verification
Lately I’ve managed to pin down the vestibular stuff (probably Menieres) to spring and fall, and then more specifically to convective days. When wind is coming and going, and when popup storms are forming and moving around, the balance and tinnitus and general icky feeling are also moving around. Looking back on the daily journal,…
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Today is RYPBLTTFMYEBNMWIWNE Day!
Today is Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day. (Probably one of Adrian Koopersmith’s special days.) The website says: Think about the first album or singles you ever purchased. Listen to those recordings and think about what was going on in your…
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Reprint on preserving
Ran across this 2015 item when looking for something else I’d written about McBee cards. It’s not really relevant to McBee, just a thought worth preserving about thoughts worth preserving. The importance of STORAGE in all realms is among my constant themes. = = = = = Why not store reality as reality? Something called…
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One frustration
One frustration of aging, for a logical type like me, is the loss of causality and correlation. In younger years, when I missed sleep or had a bad mood or various aches and pains, I knew what caused it. Fixing the cause fixed the problem, pretty consistently. If the cause was external (job situation, dentist…
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