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Nothing more than a walk this weekend...
Mar. 17th, 2014 02:03 pm...and, I'm feeling... like I'm catching a cold.
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universe? Do you have *any* idea how hard this is?
(No, you don't but that's because you simply don't care, as is the nature of universes. This is why it's so *boring* to have a conversation with a universe; that sense of apathy about so many things. Do you know the universe just doesn't care who won the Super Bowl?)
More seriously, I'm feeling better than I usually do. I had a revelation on Friday. I was calling it a "good day", with just a brief time during the afternoon where I wished I could hit an espresso stand for a quad latte.
Wait a minute, I said to myself. Maybe normal folks don't have a *good* day where they feel they *need* a quad latte to function.
That's helped me tone down exercise. I declared the 20-25 minutes of walking on my lunch break was my exercise for the day, and took two 30 minute walks over the weekend. And except for the cold, I think I'm doing well.
I've also been learning that there are some truly foul zinc products on the market. I'm reminded of marketing "news" published when Cold-Eeze or Zicam or whomever came out with zinc lozenges that didn't taste like, well, zinc lozenges. They'd known that zinc would shorten a cold, but people wouldn't take them. I am well aware why they didn't.
(Is there anyone else out there who finds it *infuriating* that they claim these zinc preparations are "homeopathic"? It's bad enough that homeopathy is frequently BS; zinc lozenges aren't homeopathic, because zinc doesn't cause cold symptoms.)
Anyway: I'm keeping on.
W
T
F
universe? Do you have *any* idea how hard this is?
(No, you don't but that's because you simply don't care, as is the nature of universes. This is why it's so *boring* to have a conversation with a universe; that sense of apathy about so many things. Do you know the universe just doesn't care who won the Super Bowl?)
More seriously, I'm feeling better than I usually do. I had a revelation on Friday. I was calling it a "good day", with just a brief time during the afternoon where I wished I could hit an espresso stand for a quad latte.
Wait a minute, I said to myself. Maybe normal folks don't have a *good* day where they feel they *need* a quad latte to function.
That's helped me tone down exercise. I declared the 20-25 minutes of walking on my lunch break was my exercise for the day, and took two 30 minute walks over the weekend. And except for the cold, I think I'm doing well.
I've also been learning that there are some truly foul zinc products on the market. I'm reminded of marketing "news" published when Cold-Eeze or Zicam or whomever came out with zinc lozenges that didn't taste like, well, zinc lozenges. They'd known that zinc would shorten a cold, but people wouldn't take them. I am well aware why they didn't.
(Is there anyone else out there who finds it *infuriating* that they claim these zinc preparations are "homeopathic"? It's bad enough that homeopathy is frequently BS; zinc lozenges aren't homeopathic, because zinc doesn't cause cold symptoms.)
Anyway: I'm keeping on.
