DayintheLife: Oh Expletive….!!

One of the casters on my specially-purchased, extra-wide office chair broke today.
Part of me wishes that I was angry and ranting at the company about shoddy merchandise breaking after only a year or so.
Instead, I’m embarassed that I broke the chair.
I’m upset that chairs are generally not built for someone my size.  My height, [...]

Mmmmmm….

 
Whoever got the muffins and croissants for today’s “all-hands” meeting also got fresh blueberries and sliced mixed fruit (grapes, mango, kiwi, strawberries, pineapple and mushmelon).  
Yum….  :)

Thankful Thursday

5 things I’m grateful for today :) 

Seattle Snow.  ”Seattle Snow”, to my mind, is short-lived, scant, and doesn’t interfere much with daily life.  It’s a fun surprise to wake up to and is gone by afternoon.  Today’s snow looks to be in this category.  :)
Icepacks.  I just finished icing my knee, and my, the absence of [...]

Ash Wednesday

Today always reminds me of the friend who gave up Catholicism for Lent one year.  :) 
I grew up born-again, in a church that was a megachurch before megachurches were cool, in a small, fairly fundie denomination.  I was so “low church” I didn’t know what “low church” was. 
I was baptized Episcopalian at St Mark’s Cathedral [...]

Long time no post

Work was insane for a couple of weeks.   The anniversary / Valentine’s / President’s Day weekend that we’d planned to spend out of town?  Turned into “Friday the 13th at a local hotel,  then rush home Saturday morning to work.”  The rest of the weekend was spent tied to the computer.  
Things did wind [...]

Oh, Right

Remember the post about the FDA’s warning on weight-loss supplements?    
It’s receiving “comment spam” about newer, better, safer … weight-loss supplements.

Playing with Wordle

 
I was reminded of Wordle, a creation of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab.   Above is an image of the 5 most-viewed-of-all-time posts from Living ~400.   Below is a bunch of the most recent comments.  What do you think? 

Warnings: weight-loss supplements

The FDA has issued more warnings about “weight-loss supplements”. As the NY Times reports, 
[T]he main law on dietary supplements gives the F.D.A. jurisdiction only after the products go on the market. Rather than reviewing the supplements and approving them for sale, as the agency does with drugs, the F.D.A. is limited to spot-checking manufacturers and [...]

Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession

I’m reading Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession.  I think the book is trying to be shocking.  The first essay is about fat in Nigerian culture (good if you’re female, bad if you’re male).  Another is on the Andean legend of the pishtaco, a bogeyman whose objective is to extract fat from the bodies of his victims. [...]

Breaking out in hives…

Not sure why, but  I’ve got itchy red bumps on my chest and the bottom half of my face, and right eye feels swollen.  
There isn’t much that’s only touched my chest and face, other than my facial moisturizer, which I have stopped using just in case that’s the cause.  I’m taking enough Benedryl and [...]

“You need to eat a sammich”

This weekend those words were directed at SJ Tucker, the singer who recently had surgery.  More specifically, I heard an older woman tell her:
It’s good to see you looking so well. But dear, you need to eat a sandwich!
I know this expression can be a joke.  It can also be, perhaps, an expression of concern.  [...]

Thankful Thursday

Heidi’s gratitude postings got me thinking of posting things I’m grateful, or thankful, for in my life. So here’s a few:

Fantastic 4-day weekend of music and fun :)
…and coworkers who kept things going when I was gone. 
Nifty green shoes! 
Compliments on my purple tie-dye shirt. 
Hearing SJ Tucker sing :)