Of Meditations and Mimzys
April 22, 2010 in Blogs
I was somewhat sick yesterday. It was probably something I ate the day before, that is, Tuesday, but whether I ought to blame the chips, coffee, Easter candy, chili, pizza, onion rings, Coke™, spaghetti with hot sausage, or ice cream that comprised the day’s sustenance is anyone’s guess. I also had a small glass of milk in the midst of all that, but I have never exhibited lactose intolerance. I might also blame the fact that I was up late Tuesday night, did not sleep well, and was rousted twice in the morning by different people for different reasons–my body does not do so well on change of sleep schedule. Yesterday I ate much more conservatively (a bowl of graham crackers in milk with a glass of milk, later some mashed potatoes with gravy and more milk) and also got an evening nap. I think I am mostly recovered.
That’s good, because I might yet get a message inviting Collision to sing tonight in Delaware, and I don’t want to miss that opportunity if it comes.
My excuse for the pizza and onion rings is that we had sent a message to the possible new vocalist that we wanted to meet at a local pizza place and had not gotten a reply, and I did not want it to be our fault that we were not there. I took a table and a snack; she did not arrive, but I don’t know yet whether she replied to the message.
I have set my Twitter account (I think the link is MarkJosephYoung) to receive cell phone tweets, so if I make it to the show tonight I’ll try it. I only follow one person, and he never tweets anything, so I don’t expect it will be too much of a burden on my cell phone texting time.
I also uploaded the next of the Examiner temporal anomalies articles, The Last Mimzy part 4: the mandala Mimzy, which considers the impact on world history that might come from a toy rabbit teaching meditative techniques to thirteenth century Tibetan Buddhists. Sometimes writers don’t seem to consider these problems; but it is a children’s story, ultimately, so they probably didn’t expect the audience to do so either.
I also, Tuesday, took another look at The Lake House, because there was a continuity discrepancy in my notes; but I found the problem, and should be able to return to that analysis soon, perhaps tonight if I don’t have a concert.
–M. J. Young
Salvo said on April 22, 2010
Geez dude. Have you ever heard of vegetables? The stuff you listed looks like what they’d show in school movies of what you shouldn’t eat. If you eat like that on an average day it’s a wonder you aren’t sick everyday.
M. J. Young said on April 23, 2010
What? Beans, tomato sauce, and onions aren’t vegetables?
Kidding. No, I don’t usually eat like that. That’s not to say I usually eat well–I tend to be a one-meal-a-day person, partly because it’s too complicated to eat more often, but that one meal is usually pretty decent. Last night happened to be pancakes, bacon, and eggs, but recent meals include roast pork and gravy with (real) mashed potatoes and broccoli; boneless chicken breasts breaded (corn flakes and eggs in the breading) and fried, stove top cornbread stuffing and mixed vegetables; flame-grilled sirloin steak with fried onions, mushroom sauce, probably spinach and a macaroni side dish (can’t recall); hamburger helper with probably mixed vegetables. I do most of the cooking, and try to mix it up, doing a meat-centered meal about twice a week (by meat-centered, I mean that the main course is a piece of meat; I include meat in my spaghetti sauce and make things like pulled pork sandwiches, barbecued riblets, sloppy joes, and hamburger helper, which I don’t consider meat-centered meals), and try to make spaghetti once a week. My wife doesn’t really consider it a meal if it doesn’t have a piece of meat in it, but budgetary constraints impede that. Right now our oven is out of order, so I’m doing most things either stove top or crockpot (we have a microwave, but it’s been a couple decades since I did any serious microwave cooking).
As to my Tuesday dinner, the chili was a sweet five-bean chili with meat I hadn’t made for a few years but made for dinner the other night at my daughter-in-law’s request, and I was craving it so I figured eating something would be better than not; the pizza and onion rings were an excuse to sit at a table while waiting for someone who might not and did not show; the spaghetti with sausage was leftovers I figured no one else was going to eat and I wanted to save the pork for my wife and didn’t feel like wrestling with the steak. Ice cream is one of those things that we keep in the house and when my wife says she wants it for dessert I have it, too, but maybe I should have foregone it.
So it was an unusual day in dietary terms, and that’s why I suspect diet of being the problem.
Thanks for posting, though.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on April 24, 2010
Can I come over for dinner?
M. J. Young said on April 25, 2010
On April 24th dinner was Domino’s Pizza, by popular demand. I had a roast beef and Swiss cheese sandwich before it came, and a bowl of Grape Nuts warmed with milk after, but I did indulge in one slice of “Hawaiian” (ham and pineapple) and one of bacon, and had a bit of the cheesy garlic bread.
That reminds me–with Swiss cheese, is the imported or the domestic better if you’re in Switzerland?
I was going to grill hamburgers or hot dogs, but my wife nixed the idea, and then it got too late. Today is gloomy and threatening, and probably rainy on and off, so I’m thinking that outdoor cooking is probably out, and I’ll turn my attention to what I can do with some pork chops.
–M. J. Young