Came across this via another web site today:

Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection FlawsThose of you who eat meat, particularly in ground form, might want to think about having it ground for you instead of buying it in pre-processed form... No, that's probably not 100% safe either (nothing is these days, veggies included), but it ( Read more... )

If you're as annoyed as I am with the bizarre and unrealistic picture US conservatives seem to be painting of Canada's health system, you might want to sign the petition Avaaz.org has on their site ( Read more... )

The best cure for the malaise caused by following behind someone large and male on the last row of weight machines, who is doing 2-3 times the weight you are on many of them (and more than that on the dreaded Shoulder Press machine, which remains my nemesis): finally getting to the Abdominal Crunch machine at the end, and after waiting while he ( Read more... )

From the CNET Mac Download Dispatch this morning:
Publisher's description of Ethnic Clock Screensaver

Watch the eye-filling beauty of curious strapworks and smooth movement of everlasting time. Try and guess the concealed images on the patina-covered walls and the ethnic style clock face. Feel the ethnic energy flowing from the ancient timing ( Read more... )

Well, it is now officially spring, because today I finally took my bike out for the first time this year ( Read more... )

So... It's now been somewhere around five years since I started trying to eat better, be more physically active, etc. There have been various incremental changes along the way, such as getting a bike last summer, but one thing I've been sort of meaning to do for pretty much that entire time (and some while before, really), and yet not gotten around ( Read more... )

So at last... There is a new arrival in my household. A sweet, slightly plump 3-year-old calico cat who is currently hiding under my bed. Her name is apparently Allie, but I think I will have to find a new name for her, because having her have the same name as a longtime close human friend of mine would be confusing all around ( Read more... )

I normally have a pretty good immune system, but I seem to have spent more of this winter sick than not sick. Most recently there was The Cough That Wouldn't Die, necessitating 10 days of expensive and nausea-inducing antibiotics, but at least that did seem to make it go away (emphasis on seem, she says, foreshadowing paragraphs two and three), and ( Read more... )

I haven't posted about this in a while, but Amber, my eldest cat, is not doing well. She's been sick with pancreatitis for some time, and I've been having to feed her by thinning the prescription food from the vet with water, sucking it into a syringe, and squirting it into her mouth a little at a time, plus giving her subcutaneous fluids from a ( Read more... )

Didn't go to coven meeting tonight - I feel a bit guilty about it, and I really did want to see everyone, and was looking forward to the ritual, but the closer it got to time to leave, the more I found myself trying to come up with reasons not to go ( Read more... )