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Daily Work Log 2006-07-14

Today was something of a whirlwind. I got in pretty early, have now stayed rather late, and I got a ton done. Items include

  • Weekly Review
  • 4 x 1-hour dashes on several subjects
  • A de-cruftification of my Next Actions system… they weren’t making it onto the right lists at the right times, so I’ve stopped putting next actions on the wiki pages altogether
  • Etc etc…

There’s more I could write about, but honestly, it’s Friday night and Amanda’s at home waiting for me so that we can eat dinner, so I’m going to pack up and head home. Have a good weekend!

A Tribute to Tool Time

Does everyone know what … time it is?

Yep! Tropical Depression One is here. I used to find this sort of thing exciting. I was very surprised to find myself physically nauseated when I saw the projection map and the little hurricane symbol in the Gulf of Mexico. I guess Katrina had a deep effect on me. If I weren’t so busy I’d celebrate by drinking… heavily.

Happy Mardi Gras

This is a synthesis of two recent Mardi-Gras-related posts from my LiveJournal (my personal journal). The first was relatively popular as my LJ posts go.

Happy Mardi Gras
Ahh, even with everything all messed up post-katrina, sometimes I really love this city. Yesterday evening when I was out for my run, I passed some guys in the Neutral Ground on St.Charles, near Louisiana I think, wearing clown outfits with a cooler on wheels and a portable radio. On the way back toward home, I heard the distinct sound of Mardi Gras music as I approached, and one of them held out a strand of beads for me.

“Happy Mardi Gras!,” he yelled happily as I snagged the beads. “Hey, Happy Mardi Gras,” I replied, and went on my merry way, the beads bouncing with each step as I ran.

Some things have changed forever, but it’s good to know that some things haven’t changed a bit.

No bus? I’ll run.
I realized a bit too late this afternoon that I wouldn’t make it to the bus before they shut down most of the route for parades. I took the bus to Napoleon and then got off (as I had to).

Then I started walking on the neutral ground.

Then I saw some people running, and I thought, “you could just run, Brock.”

So I cinched down the straps on my backpack, took my umbrella in one hand and my 20oz diet coke in the other, and I started running. In my 10-year-old $7 sandals from K-Mart. I ran past Fat Harry’s, and I ran past Louisiana, and then I passed Washington and Jackson, and now I’m home. I got a lot of strange looks, and I worry that my calves might hurt tomorrow, but you know what? It actually felt pretty good, sandals or no. It was probably just over a mile and a half, maybe 1.75 or something.

I feel better about not running earlier in the week, like somehow running in normal clothes and sandals with my backpack for 1.75 miles makes up for not running 3 miles in proper attire. I might wander back out there later to catch Muses…

ADDENDUM: By the way, it’s only 5 hours later and my calves are already quite tight from the run in sandals.

Study finds no heart/cancer benefit to low fat diet

After years of hearing, “lower fat, lower fat” from dieticians, a new authoratative study finds that a diet low in fat doesn’t decrease your chances of heart disease or cancer (if you’re female). I lost my weight by reducing refined sugars and flour… I never really paid attention to fat content.

Chances a low-fat diet will help? Slim and none – Health & Science – International Herald Tribune

The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect.