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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Sunday, October 18, 2020
#JeSuisProf
1. A September 2020 essay in Al-Jazeera online: Reprinting the Charlie Hebdo cartoons is not about free speech...but about using speech to reaffirm domination.
2. A 2015 feature in BI: 16 Bold Covers From Charlie Hebdo, The Magazine That Was Attacked In France.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
My latest tweets on @tosinbird
I believe in boring joy :D https://t.co/4OHjIPQ0Uu
— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) October 11, 2020
— ॐ (@tosinbird) October 11, 2020
My main twitter account is @tosinbird, but I delete all the tweets every month or so, mostly out of habit, and because I don't feel the need to save what are essentially bursts of re-tweeting activity, that although time-focused (I mean if you consider them in the short time that they were made, you can find a theme and/or understand the tweets), are certainly from haphazard and diverse topics and styles over the long term.
But also, maybe it's to hide, for example when one has said something political for which one could be witch-hunted someday? (Because human beings are crazy.)
Anyway, I have this secondary twitter account @REALbubbler where tweets are more permanent; I have never deleted all here. So, to make this blog post, I let @realbubbler echo my latest tweets on @tosinbird so I could embed the more permanent objects. I hope you enjoy the mini-project.
This is my "pinned tweet" at @REALbubbler. The one that I've kept at the top of my page/feed for some years to give it more prominence and help people notice my product - the poetry book.
I just created even more tweets (re-tweets): about protests to End SARS, and other matters. Please click and see the array.
But mostly because I deleted all before and got in the habit of doing it. I mean, because my tweets, being worthless when they've passed their use-date, deserve to be deleted. And perhaps by twitter's nature many old tweets are worthless too. Although collectively, this is not true, and it is a good thing that the twitter archive exists, a gargantuan library of gibberish and some gold.
Anyway, I have this secondary twitter account @REALbubbler where tweets are more permanent; I have never deleted all here. So, to make this blog post, I let @realbubbler echo my latest tweets on @tosinbird so I could embed the more permanent objects. I hope you enjoy the mini-project.
— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) October 13, 2020
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) October 11, 2020
20-20 IN 2020 🎉
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) October 11, 2020
It's party time for @rogerfederer & @RafaelNadal 😎 pic.twitter.com/1DuwHdq65S
ALL THE FEELS 🥰@RafaelNadal @rolandgarros #FrenchOpen pic.twitter.com/IgxwwMATGv
— GIPHY Sports (@GIPHYSports) October 11, 2020
1️⃣5️⃣ years, 4️⃣ months, 7️⃣ days since his first #Roland-Garros title, @RafaelNadal does it again...#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/ftR0JoI89O
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) October 11, 2020
I love 💕 this.
— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) October 13, 2020
Not everytime push people to do more and better, sometimes just appreciate and luxuriate. https://t.co/9yX8l7ywfR
Love #Love https://t.co/1A3PlaaZjH
— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) July 24, 2017
This is my "pinned tweet" at @REALbubbler. The one that I've kept at the top of my page/feed for some years to give it more prominence and help people notice my product - the poetry book.
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Saturday, September 12, 2020
I feel lousy. I think post-period dehydration is one way to describe this?
The great thing is I just ate. (I have made a habit of never taking food for granted, or the small privileges like time-freedom.) The other great thing is that I did not eat all of the food - the half that was signalling to me that it would make me feel terrible. Another great thing is that I'm free to drink water, rest, or do whatever I want. The half of the food that is good is the boiled yam. The half of the food that is poison is egg-sauce. I just ate the yam, and the salt on it felt great on my tongue, and the starch in it is familiar and soothes whatever emotional problems I may have. The egg though, even before it was made, the kitchen smells were annoying me. And you know I love food and would often just eat the food with joy, but today I had some sense and threw the egg thing away without even tasting it. I could see ginger fibers in it, and the crazy kitchen smells had included onions, and I'm not talking about moderate quantities here. And the physiological state I'm in now is probably low blood or something, yesterday was the last day of a mildly lively menstrual "period"/flow, not far out of ordinary, just that it felt like it had started a full day before it started enough that I assumed it was and used a tampon that I didn't need - I usually do that "after" the flow has started, yes?, and then I had PMS during the first day of bleeding instead of the day before the first day - by PMS I don't mean there is pain and cramping, just that I might act bitchy - in a text message perhaps, with a boy perhaps - and not know why until the day after when I say hahaha I did that yesterday and it was definitely pms. Anyway, the other reason I would call this period a little lively is that say the usual flow is sorta normal or heavy in the first 24 hours, on day two it may be normal then it fades away like it's giving up, then it sorta comes back for a semi-normal but usually light fadeout on day three, I think? But this time, it may have been that day two was a full day like day one, I think. Either way, the thing I do not want now is onions and garlic and ginger or such nonsense while I rebalance. When there was (very present) coronavirus, yes, definitely onions, and I have treated myself to another onionsvaganza extravaganza even recently who knows maybe I was getting a cold - these things happen almost by instinct. And maybe by instinct my mother is needing to infuse her life with these aromas and foods right now whereas I already have a headache and (right on cue, right now I notice my leg and foot tingling painfully, which relates to hampered blood flow) well the headache for me is a very rare - very rare - occurrence and I noticed it one or two hours ago but it's half-gone now, and what I'm saying is low blood, hence no need for the blood-drain foods right now, and - smart girl me - I resisted the urge to eat anyway.
And I was also wondering why I do not speak up. But after writing this I see that I do not speak up because it is not clearcut and easy. These items are not unmitigated poisons, they are medicines actually, for the right person at the right time. I am not one hundred percent against them, in fact I recommend them to myself when an antiviral need arises. I am not forever and always responding negatively to these things, and my response to them is not clearly negative like, I don't drop dead or anything. Who knows, maybe if I spoke up, it would turn out that the food feels bad for somebody else and the overall effect would be to solve a shared problem, although I suspect that the food is very good for my mother and possibly good for somebody else, and maybe in some different pathways it is very good for me as well. Also, I suspect that (I should be looking to try asking, not suspecting - eyeroll) the somebody else's don't care about how their function might be changing in such seemingly minor ways in response to food. It must be something going on with my mum, I mean in her body; we had been out of this for a while now and eating well, but now we're back. (Edited one hour later: Now I remember, yes, she went to the dentist five days ago, she had a procedure - had a whole tooth removed, and has been taking medicine since and also likely managing pain, without showing signs outwardly. And a piece of the mystery is solved!)
Now I feel well, no headache. I'll eat a little more yam, drink a bit more water. One of these days I'll buy myself some of the foods I need. Actually, I already have stuff around the house that I like. I made a spice paste weeks ago - contains Indian-style dried beans and spices aka masala powder - that I haven't been using. Actually, the first thing I thought this morning had been to warm a can of cream of chicken soup for myself. I'm no longer in the mood for that now, but you can see the direction my appetite is leaning - chunky foods, fats, skins - chicken skin, fish skin, creamy, normal, a little salt and sugar not excess - up from my usually close to zero salt and sugar lol, hmmm, it just occurred to me now that the medicine I need is a bottle of tomato juice, that would rehydrate me right back to life...although it's easier to not go shopping now, since rest is medicine too, another thing I would want is like a cup-a-noodle thing - you know, with rice or noodles and spices and you do hot water with it to make a broth yummm the salty spices at the end make you feel your joy restored, ... and maybe cheetos.
Even before the period though, and don't read this if you don't like "too-much information" about bodily functions, I'd noticed 1. pooparella, as in I don't normally shit/poopoo/"use the toilet" often, I poopoo infrequently in normal life, but I noticed I poo-poo'd a few times, maybe once daily a few days in a row, not that I was ill or that it was diarrhoeal or anything, I attributed it to my having eaten a lot of granola (raw grain, oats stuff) and I'm sure there was another reason. And it occurred to me that I should eat more things like granola, and that such things make me happy, and that although I love milk and milk products, my body was probably not liking it. Guess what, thanks to the yam, and the water, I'm due to poopoo again now. Nice. I hope I don't become an average poopoo-er, I was proud of my identity as a no-poop soldier. Hahaha. 2. The other thing I noticed was a ginger chunk, in my food some days ago but I just ate the food anyway but I wasn't happy about it but maybe forgot about that. 3. Also I'd been feeling dehydrated for many days, like for instance, I'd been cracking my joints/bones - how do you say it - not only in my feet, ankles and so on, but also now in strange places back, shoulers, neck, hips, if I'm remembering this correctly. Terror: does that mean I'll have bad posture when I'm old?
After this post, I'll be more aware and rehydrate. The things I'm writing about may be relatively minor shifts in a body's program. Also, I assume that they are shifts for the better, even though in reality they may be neutral.
The weather is back to normal, yippee. We have rain, we have sun, and the incredible cold of the past months seems to be over - it was maybe 2*Centigrade below normal daily range of 27 degrees +/- 4, but for a sensitive babe like me, that is cold at night. (Editing one hour later: it is still cold.) Soon I'll start to feel uncomfortable with the heat. Hmmm, should I remove these curtains? They were nice when it was cold, but now I want nature and ventilation, and maybe that is what my body is trying to tell me...I need fresh air? YES. and more light. Adjust to the changing weather and throw the curtains open? yes to that too. Because they are linked, how you're breathing (and I think I don't breathe very well because my body is protesting the nonsense air quality essentially of the world so it just tries to operate without air) and your metabolism, your blood activeness and your general hydration levels. And digestion and mental function. I'm stopping now. One Love.
Friday, September 04, 2020
Baby-name consultation
The boy-twin names you should totally use now: Kendrick and Chadwick.
The girl-twins, obvvviously, should be Venus and Serena.
In Yoruba culture, twins automatically get the names Taiwo and Kehinde.
The child born after them is named Idowu, which also works for the third-born of triplets.
Well, if you need a baby name, anywhere in the world, I guess I can help you? CONTACT.
Monday, August 31, 2020
Caine Prize, Booker, Commonwealth, NLNG Nigeria Prize...
When am I going to read all these books (or short stories)
and not just the final winners but also the finalists/shortlisted like I once used to do.
and the PDF books on my laptop, and the ones I'm halfway through right now...
and the small piles of books on the arm of this chair
and the books that I have not bought or the ones I bought and lost?
and the re-reads!
Mmmm, I look forward to a beautiful life.
Monday, August 24, 2020
Meaningfulness, senselessness, and dance.
Three years in,
it turns out that:
and
Let's Face The Music, And Dance. 🎵🎶🎶
Year One and Two here: It was always dance.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Words, like idiocracy
Sturm und Drang - as we now live in a world of children.
Doom and Gloom - a different kind of vibe.
I'm looking forward to watching this famously idiotic movie.
It better not disappoint.
Friday, July 24, 2020
Dark humour
I've watched this so many times, and shared it a few times...
It's about how different personality types (the 4-letter /16 personalities /Myers-Briggs) handle the pandemic-apocalypse.
Tell me.
Is it funny? True? A little weird?
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Not saying I'm going to post daily - I'm NOT - but here's another quick one
I claim to hate cellphones but my phone finally gave up the ghost this morning and by early afternoon I had gone off to try to get it repaired. In between I had an online event/meeting/session about education in Lagos. If my sister hadn't gone and got separate internet at home I would have been unable to join in the call since my smartphone was dead. So I joined the call on my laptop then went for a walk and my repair guy said what was wrong and that he couldn't fix it but told me what to do and so on. I normally would not do a post like this one that says (almost says, I'll skip that part) where I will be tomorrow because I'm not comfortable with the security risks. That said, haha.
Meanwhile I saw another sister that was on a videocall with my sister-at-home and that was nice, and she told me that she felt connected (I think was the word she used) to me because she had read my last post. Yes, I have sisterzzz, plural.
People who write minutiae, how do they do it? Yes, I know how they do it, I did it in a novella and so on, with close-ups on people's lives, but I don't do it in my life - sweet God, just sit here and tell you rubbish about: what I ate and who has corona and how I liked the meeting and who gave me some money to try and repair the phone and details about how I asked the phone guy what his specialty was, and he said iPhones and Samsung phones to which I replied that I had honestly forgotten that I didn't possess a high-end phone, it's true. Oh my, oh me. Carrying my cheap ass phone around trying to get it repaired, and also my cheap ass second laptop which has a motherboard issue.
What I do know about my phone is that there are even way cheaper smartphones than mine, swear to God, like they have some things like internet browsers and downloads and music players but they're ... ok I don't actually know sha. But I know that the security guys, people working low income (aboki is not the perfect word to use here, political correctness, even though it's not a mean word) they all have phones, some of them large-ish phones, but they don't have the range of normal apps available to them. I should check and learn more about that.
Now to talk about my second laptop, I'm sad to see it go, but it always did have heat-management problems and considering that I bought it for very little way back when, and got to use it quite a bit esp when I had jobs in recent years that needed you to bring a laptop to work, so of course I lazily kept my little cheap laptop on-site and didn't have to carry heavy load about. Like, the work is not even that serious. The most serious part of some of those jobs was the acting serious. LOL. Or maybe I missed the point of the job(s). Also used it when this laptop I'm using right now was down, for example earlier this year. Also in the past I sometimes used it when I felt like taking a laptop to my food place to chill, sometimes I took both and now I can't remember why; (UPDATED one day later: I remember now - to charge all my devices when there was a prolonged power outage) and also sometimes when I had the back-in-the-day teaching job (which I somehow consider more serious) and did not want the weight of my main laptop and felt sure that I only needed to show something minor that baby-laptop could handle. And sometimes when I needed two laptops, especially I think before I had all the smart-phone stuff going; say main laptop had crashed and I needed to study online how to restore it to life.
O, Baby-laptop, I will try to save your ass. You have value to me.
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| I paid less than 20k (when the exchange rate was about 160 naira) |
And it occurred to me as I walked back home today that I was anxious about the future because I had one laptop and no second laptop, and what would happen if...if, I mean, main laptop is ten years old now, and, I don't know? And I tried to tell myself something from the Bible, that I should "be anxious for nothing." The likely thing I will do with Baby-Laptop is dispose of it - the repair guys buy it, I understand, for close to zero, while I ask them to remove the hard drive first, or somehow remove the browsers and whatever few personal files I may have saved on it - or risk having the next user just open it and have access to my email and all that. You would think I actually had stuff to protect, the way I care about security lapses. Hahaha.
Raw-blogging
It's time for me to exceed my former standards in honesty. It's time to try blogging that strains toward a deeper honesty, or to try rawer posts for a while.
Raw things on my mind:
One of my blogs won't post to facebook anymore. It is very annoying. At first it was maybe all of my blogs, then I complained and then it was just one. That one - NewsBuka - has been banned for several months now and I must have complained a dozen times.
I'll return with more, uh, info. It will be boring stuff like how I once again did the Values Exercise, and how today I got the name for my next poetry collection, and how...that's all for now.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Speaking of skin-colour, let's ask horse-lovers.
Common Horse Coat Colors from TheHorse.com : "Horses come in a variety of vivid coat colors, ranging from solid and static to multifaceted and ever-changing. These coat colors are controlled by complex genetics." They are described as bay, chestnut, black, dun, gray, roan, ...pinto, appaloosa, palomino, buckskin, seal-brown, ... More from equine-world.co.uk and Even More from wikipedia/equine_coat_color
What are some of your favourite "colours"?
Blue And White Registered Part Bred Arab With A Bright Future For Sale - £2,000 - Carmarthenshire pic.twitter.com/qp2MDRgWPk
— Equine World UK (@EquineWorldUK) October 28, 2015
Flashy 14.2hh Pony For Sale - £2,000 - Gloucestershirehttps://t.co/KlDAXsbYjL pic.twitter.com/qgUg7BPT9H
— Equine World UK (@EquineWorldUK) October 28, 2015
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
Micah Javier Johnson. He eloquently and elegantly expressed his view that Black Lives Matter.
Say his name or shut the f* up.
Share this with former US Presidents Barack Obama. William J. Clinton. George W. Bush. All male by the way.
Which is why everything starts over again today. F* the constitution. F* all f*ing pieces of paper that cause more harm than good. I am the female president of the United States of America. I don't know who the male president is, I guess you could be. We're starting over.
Oh, and happy birthday Rafa Nadal.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Friday, May 01, 2020
Thursday, April 02, 2020
Don't intubate
Well, what should a doctor do instead? Just watch people die?
I'm here studying some of the ways the conditions around treatment might be creating greater coronavirus/covid-19 burden. So far, there is no cure for the disease, just handling the symptoms to hopefully keep patients alive. So let's keep patients alive.
Steps One, Two, Three:
Don't get the virus, or don't get very sick.
Follow the GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING to wash your hands with soap frequently like a psycho, and to observe social distancing as much as possible staying away from people who may be infected and staying away from people because of course you yourself may be infected and with covid-19 you're spreading the virus even before you develop the symptoms like fever and coughs. Read about viral shedding, I don't understand it but it is gross. :-) Now, the germs are out there, and if you encounter the virus you want to be in the majority that gets away with mild or moderate disease, so throughout this crazy pandemic period you should really take care of yourself, eat well, sleep and rest more than ever, enjoy that hot chicken soup or lemon honey tea, or even do the steam inhale things, stay hydrated, gargle salt, clean your nostrils with soap etc etc. Oh Lord, it's exhausting. Glad it's not forever.
It's not forever, in part because in some months or years there will hopefully be a vaccine. Also because there are experiments (known as trials) going on with existing medicines (the malarial ones, the one from ebola, etc etc) to understand their effect on this disease - no they are not very effective or you would have been informed by the health authorities to use them. Scientists are working...you are welcome to join the various efforts.
Steps Four, Five, Six:
But in the meantime, the coronavirus disease is a killer that has caused quick respiratory-related death for some people, just like that. And so there must be a medical response. But the people around all these sick people then get sick, and it seems they get it worse than other people too. Basically, doctors are at risk. Then you start to try to understand why doctors are at increased risk, and you also try to understand how these viruses are finding lungs to infect and all that...let's try to shorten the story by quoting:
1.
from, a picture in The Washington Post, March 23, 2020: What the structure of the coronavirus can tell us. (I didn't include the copy-paste the actual picture because it's probably a copyright violation to do so.) Washing our hands is good advice. But it's not the only weapon we have...
2. This paper that says up the temperature, dump the cool air-conditioning, and raise the humidity. A more detailed discussion of the question is here (BBC: Will warm weather really kill off covid-19?). Short answer, not really, not sure, or not as much as social distancing will.
In Lagos, we've had roughly these conditions, naturally, and one prays that we will therefore be spared a great coronavirus outbreak. Can we replicate this "weather" in the hospitals of New York and Barcelona? Yes, we must try.
(It just occured to me to say: please don't use the heater in your building to a very high level in an effort to dry yourself into a prune - you'll make yourself ill and lower your immunity. Please don't do stupid things. Natural heat with humidity and ventilation is a different thing than using your HVAC as a dryer.) Ask an air-conditioning professional, HVAC engineer, and facilities manager to help.
Please click on each of these to learn more.
I'm here studying some of the ways the conditions around treatment might be creating greater coronavirus/covid-19 burden. So far, there is no cure for the disease, just handling the symptoms to hopefully keep patients alive. So let's keep patients alive.
Steps One, Two, Three:
Don't get the virus, or don't get very sick.
Follow the GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING to wash your hands with soap frequently like a psycho, and to observe social distancing as much as possible staying away from people who may be infected and staying away from people because of course you yourself may be infected and with covid-19 you're spreading the virus even before you develop the symptoms like fever and coughs. Read about viral shedding, I don't understand it but it is gross. :-) Now, the germs are out there, and if you encounter the virus you want to be in the majority that gets away with mild or moderate disease, so throughout this crazy pandemic period you should really take care of yourself, eat well, sleep and rest more than ever, enjoy that hot chicken soup or lemon honey tea, or even do the steam inhale things, stay hydrated, gargle salt, clean your nostrils with soap etc etc. Oh Lord, it's exhausting. Glad it's not forever.
It's not forever, in part because in some months or years there will hopefully be a vaccine. Also because there are experiments (known as trials) going on with existing medicines (the malarial ones, the one from ebola, etc etc) to understand their effect on this disease - no they are not very effective or you would have been informed by the health authorities to use them. Scientists are working...you are welcome to join the various efforts.
Steps Four, Five, Six:
But in the meantime, the coronavirus disease is a killer that has caused quick respiratory-related death for some people, just like that. And so there must be a medical response. But the people around all these sick people then get sick, and it seems they get it worse than other people too. Basically, doctors are at risk. Then you start to try to understand why doctors are at increased risk, and you also try to understand how these viruses are finding lungs to infect and all that...let's try to shorten the story by quoting:
from, a picture in The Washington Post, March 23, 2020: What the structure of the coronavirus can tell us. (I didn't include the copy-paste the actual picture because it's probably a copyright violation to do so.) Washing our hands is good advice. But it's not the only weapon we have...
In Lagos, we've had roughly these conditions, naturally, and one prays that we will therefore be spared a great coronavirus outbreak. Can we replicate this "weather" in the hospitals of New York and Barcelona? Yes, we must try.
(It just occured to me to say: please don't use the heater in your building to a very high level in an effort to dry yourself into a prune - you'll make yourself ill and lower your immunity. Please don't do stupid things. Natural heat with humidity and ventilation is a different thing than using your HVAC as a dryer.) Ask an air-conditioning professional, HVAC engineer, and facilities manager to help.
Please click on each of these to learn more.
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| Building managers, especially for hotels and hospitals, please click for technical information |
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| More great tips from facilityexecutive.com |
3. But also, we must find where we're actively multiplying infection rates and stop doing that or even start cleaning the air, a keyword I've seen is aerosolization, which causes more spread and more disease. WHO is looking into understanding this. Engineers can help.
This thing is highly infectious. Dealing with it may seem frustrating. Don't be frustrated. We'll figure it out.
4. Don't intubate. Now here I sort of don't know what I'm talking about. But it's invasive, with risks to the carer and the patient. Just as the system for giving supportive oxygen produces aerosols that make more patients.
That is why I'm suggesting a pause here to consider: Can we avoid getting to the point where we need a wild number of these extreme procedures? (Oh yeah, isn't that what everybody has been trying to do?)
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Also, there is no evidence that aerosol transmission occurs outside of aerosol-generating procedures in a hospital setting. Physical distancing is adequate protection for respiratory droplets.— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) March 28, 2020
One choir practice.— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) March 30, 2020
60 well, asymptomatic people who did not shake hands.
45 now COVID positive.
2 dead.
Is singing an aerosol generating procedure? https://t.co/Mp12wYikIo
Here is the latest from @WHO on how #coronavirus is transmitted.— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 30, 2020
“WHO continues to recommend airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol generating procedures and support treatment are performed.”
SINGING may generate aerosols.https://t.co/kPZ9IsgrvY
This thing is highly infectious. Dealing with it may seem frustrating. Don't be frustrated. We'll figure it out.
4. Don't intubate. Now here I sort of don't know what I'm talking about. But it's invasive, with risks to the carer and the patient. Just as the system for giving supportive oxygen produces aerosols that make more patients.
That is why I'm suggesting a pause here to consider: Can we avoid getting to the point where we need a wild number of these extreme procedures? (Oh yeah, isn't that what everybody has been trying to do?)
Don't let the viruses live.
Don't let the virus find your face.
Don't let the virus get cosy inside you.
Don't let the virus end you.
Don't let the viruses spread.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Bye-bye
I've been telling people not to panic about the corona virus thing, but I'm a little bit, well, sometimes, over-worried.
Just wash your hands, I guess.
And remember that even if you get the disease, you'll likely survive ... it's not bye-bye yet.
It's a viral disease, not primarily bacterial, so don't start popping antibiotics or the wrong medicines. Instead, support your immune system with good food and rest and avoid exposure to the virus if you can.
If I was very old, I would probably take stricter measures to avoid coming in contact with the virus. What are people doing? What are your thoughts and suggestions?
Big respect to workers who are directly affected, and good luck to everyone.
What can we do to help?
#health
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Just wash your hands, I guess.
And remember that even if you get the disease, you'll likely survive ... it's not bye-bye yet.
It's a viral disease, not primarily bacterial, so don't start popping antibiotics or the wrong medicines. Instead, support your immune system with good food and rest and avoid exposure to the virus if you can.
If I was very old, I would probably take stricter measures to avoid coming in contact with the virus. What are people doing? What are your thoughts and suggestions?
Big respect to workers who are directly affected, and good luck to everyone.
What can we do to help?
#health
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
CNN ...
Vanessa Bryant posts on Instagram for the first time since Kobe's death (HERE)
Priest: Kobe Bryant sought redemption through his Catholic faith (HERE)
Also recently passed, our dearest Shirley.
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Priest: Kobe Bryant sought redemption through his Catholic faith (HERE)
Also recently passed, our dearest Shirley.
We remember Shirley Marneus, who founded Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology (TACIT) and directed stage productions at Caltech for more than 20 years. She was 83. https://t.co/kfYqKEtrpA— Caltech (@Caltech) January 25, 2020
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Thursday, January 02, 2020
Do you have a New Year resolution?
They're usually not my thing. I usually resolve to be much the same as ever.
That said, I could work on creating the habit of exercising and the habit of (I'm not sure) not not having a job-type income-thingy.
Aquagym:
I don't get enough exercise, since all I do is sit and read things. Taking a sports/exercise class would bring some fun physical and social activity into my life. I actually took a reasonably-inexpensive weekly yoga class late last year, a five-minute walk away, and it was good, so now I'm going to see if I can find (or request) another class, with a different form of exercise that I prefer, like dance or swimming or, like, aquagym.
Edu or Strategy or what?
If I had a job, coupled with needing to take a little public-transport (as opposed to door-to-door chauffeuring) and walking, I would not be complaining about needing to exercise. Which brings me to - oh yeah, as always, it seems I once again acknowledge a need to get a job. Except that I don't... Many jobs actually don't need doing lol. And many times I start on a job and find I have too quickly eliminated the need for the job, or for my income.
Which is actually a problem.
I mean, I could teach again? (Yes, I plan to do that when I grow up, like, my 50s, 60s, ...) I could work in education for more money somehow?
Well, I've been saying how I want to be on boards. But there again, the problem. Example, you see a way you could intervene to make things better, but notice that it should properly be the workforce taking ownership of the functions and not the egghead-board-of-outsiders, and you (hypothetically) find that the intervention to get the workforce up to speed is in the works, or not in the works and never going to be, or ... I mean, at some point, life is one huge shrug - whatever. ( Alright, I'll express that in a more positive/hopeful way: work-life is one learning experience after the other? See? Positive - I earn, you gain, I learn. )
Less ginger
In other news, I just isolated the source of my biggest health problem - how I get dizziness and symptoms of low blood pressure all the time? It's the excess of ginger in my food. My mother has fallen in love with ginger and been adding chopped fresh ginger into everything everywhere all the time - hopefully we can stop. She also used to love garlic and put it everywhere. Both of these things are potent blood thinners, like aspirin. Lord have mercy.
FYI ginger is very good for you, just not good for me.
Actually, one time in the past 2 years or so, my mother had a doctor-recommended daily aspirin that I thought might be useless or harmful. That's not what I said to her directly, I only suggested that she maybe observe the effect just in case she found it unnecessary. It must be that these things don't harm her and actually offer her benefits. I on the other hand keep feeling I need to thicken my blood so to speak, to add a little fat to my diet for instance - my brain gets hungry. Now I need to tell her about the ginger and to try to feed myself better going forward.
I got vitamins the other day, bought a bottle of multivitamins - oh, yeah, maybe I should take a swig of that now.
I'm really happy to have figured out the ginger thing, I was starting to get worried that I'd damage my brain or something. Now I have the hope of exploring foods that make me feel more robust and alright.
This whole blog post is cheesy. It's time to dance.
(One hour later) My mother is back from work, and we've spent the past hour talking about food - ginger, garlic, and their amazing medicinal properties and side-effects. She says that just for me, of course she's going to stop cooking with both. I'm lucky, eh.
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That said, I could work on creating the habit of exercising and the habit of (I'm not sure) not not having a job-type income-thingy.
Aquagym:
I don't get enough exercise, since all I do is sit and read things. Taking a sports/exercise class would bring some fun physical and social activity into my life. I actually took a reasonably-inexpensive weekly yoga class late last year, a five-minute walk away, and it was good, so now I'm going to see if I can find (or request) another class, with a different form of exercise that I prefer, like dance or swimming or, like, aquagym.
Edu or Strategy or what?
If I had a job, coupled with needing to take a little public-transport (as opposed to door-to-door chauffeuring) and walking, I would not be complaining about needing to exercise. Which brings me to - oh yeah, as always, it seems I once again acknowledge a need to get a job. Except that I don't... Many jobs actually don't need doing lol. And many times I start on a job and find I have too quickly eliminated the need for the job, or for my income.
Which is actually a problem.
I mean, I could teach again? (Yes, I plan to do that when I grow up, like, my 50s, 60s, ...) I could work in education for more money somehow?
Well, I've been saying how I want to be on boards. But there again, the problem. Example, you see a way you could intervene to make things better, but notice that it should properly be the workforce taking ownership of the functions and not the egghead-board-of-outsiders, and you (hypothetically) find that the intervention to get the workforce up to speed is in the works, or not in the works and never going to be, or ... I mean, at some point, life is one huge shrug - whatever. ( Alright, I'll express that in a more positive/hopeful way: work-life is one learning experience after the other? See? Positive - I earn, you gain, I learn. )
Less ginger
In other news, I just isolated the source of my biggest health problem - how I get dizziness and symptoms of low blood pressure all the time? It's the excess of ginger in my food. My mother has fallen in love with ginger and been adding chopped fresh ginger into everything everywhere all the time - hopefully we can stop. She also used to love garlic and put it everywhere. Both of these things are potent blood thinners, like aspirin. Lord have mercy.
FYI ginger is very good for you, just not good for me.
Actually, one time in the past 2 years or so, my mother had a doctor-recommended daily aspirin that I thought might be useless or harmful. That's not what I said to her directly, I only suggested that she maybe observe the effect just in case she found it unnecessary. It must be that these things don't harm her and actually offer her benefits. I on the other hand keep feeling I need to thicken my blood so to speak, to add a little fat to my diet for instance - my brain gets hungry. Now I need to tell her about the ginger and to try to feed myself better going forward.
I got vitamins the other day, bought a bottle of multivitamins - oh, yeah, maybe I should take a swig of that now.
I'm really happy to have figured out the ginger thing, I was starting to get worried that I'd damage my brain or something. Now I have the hope of exploring foods that make me feel more robust and alright.
This whole blog post is cheesy. It's time to dance.
(One hour later) My mother is back from work, and we've spent the past hour talking about food - ginger, garlic, and their amazing medicinal properties and side-effects. She says that just for me, of course she's going to stop cooking with both. I'm lucky, eh.
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