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I admit to being a Denise Austin fan. Even though she never shuts up. And she always lies. But you get used to that. I now know that when she says

just one more

She doesn't really mean just one more. She means just that one more then a few more after that.

I've been doing the Fat Blasting Yoga dvd. Its pretty strenuous. And just when you think its over she brings out the stability ball and does another 15 minutes.

When I first started doing it a few weeks ago my legs would be wobbling and shaking from the effort but now I'm pretty good. My thighs feel like they're packed with cement actually. Jem was feeling them the other night and said I'll be able to crack coconuts with them. Which I guess could come in handy someday.

And I've lost 5 kilos which is also pretty handy. 4 more to go. But my aim is really firmness. I want to firm up all those bits that start going soft after 40. You know where they are. Triceps, back fat over the bra, thighs, well lots of places really.

And I made this magnet a couple of years ago when I was trying to lose weight and I think its time to put it back on the fridge to help the cause. Because she's 52 and looks pretty damn fine. And firm. Thats my aim. To be fitter at 50 than ever before. So I have 5 years up my sleeve.

 

This year, Sesame Street turns 40. I have been watching this children's TV show called Sesame Street when I was seven. Maybe they want to put a timeline of Sesame Street. Also, the Amazon Conduit on Vox has been fixed, so I will be buying my own domain blog without having to surf the internet again. The use of cursing, that's not good, you can view this.

On this Vox post, three Little Einsteins pack kicks in:

I have so much to read and so little time... Books piling up for school and for my personal reading. I wish I could read faster.

I read a poem last night at Revolution Books, I really like being there. I love having a space downtown where I can escape the university environment I am beginning to hate. It's hard to imagine my goal of being in graduate school for several more years. I am very tired of the institution and the focus of it all, the goals of the university. I feel like it is turning most of the students into useless office workers that will be victim to the oppressive capitalist system. I want to escape it so badly, but each day it gets harder and harder to see beyond the dollar signs. A creative career is a terribly rare thing.

Sometimes I just want to shut myself up into my room and forget the rest of the world. Well, sometimes I do exactly that.

I promised I would spend next Tuesday night with someone who destroys me and drains me, so I am about to face a trying week. I am spending tonight with Ryu, looking forward to seeing him, but I have some things to do in the meantime. I am preparing myself, reading and getting ahead before Tuesday and the subsequent empty days it will cause.

Mae West.

A bit of humor to end what seemed like the never ending week. Boss Dr left yesterday for Portugal with his wife and one son. The other son is in college at FL State. His preparation for this 10 day va/ca drove us all nuts. So many cases to get put into place and cover. Plus on Thursday he did a Cruciate Repair on a very nasty dog. Expensive and intense surgery that always gets him "twitching" all over the hospital. Until he actually gets into the surgery room he's edgy and stressed, once he's in there he settles but the 45 minute prep time is brutal with him around. Usually we keep them overnight but this dog is vicious so we sent him home that night. We finished appointments at around 7 pm. then headed on to treatments. I helped get those done and got most everything cleaned up in Surgery, Xray, Prep Room and Treatment area while Dr did his charts and Tech started her Lab work.

It was Bonnie's first shift back from her rough week of dealing with her Twin Sister's death. She looked like shit and I felt so bad for her. Plus she was sick which added insult to injury. Yesterday was the first day in two weeks that I only had to do my jobs and not hers too. I was glad she was back. I had three dogs for grooming and finished around 1 o'clock. I ran out an grabbed some lunch and came back to eat it. Bonnie and I talked for a bit and then I changed into my T/A clothes and clocked in to start afternoon appts. Dr Trish had a full block so I knew we'd be busy. Clients started coming in at 2 and off we went. We had one client in a room and she had just started that appt when SUDDENLY the front door opens and in comes this young woman SCREAMING and crying with her limp cat and just hands it over to one of the receptionists. All of a sudden everything changed.....it was mad chaos. Techs running, Dr T running, me running. Crash Kit, Oxygen Tank on, syringes, CPR, Trach Tube, IV's started.....if I heard my name once I heard it a hundred times......."Jacquie get me" Meanwhile this poor girl was just hysterical and whaling so loudly it was painful. And we had clients everywhere. Just hearing her cry made them cry, it was so hard to keep it together back where we were. Some left. Those in exam rooms stayed. Working on this beautiful 9 month old kitty were Dr, me, Melissa, Darryl and Bonnie in the background doing whatever she could. Dr kept ordering more Epy from me and I kept drawing it up for her, one cc at a time. There was no time to put every sharp in the sharps container, there were syringes everywhere and I just kept grabbing them in between orders and throwing them in the sink. They continued CPR and we all worked on this cat to no avail. He was gone. He came in with no pulse and no heartbeat and we were never able to get him back. Dr Trish called it. Then the crying started in our room. I remembered this kitty. He was so sweet, I was the holder for his first visit as a kitten, I was there the day he got neutered, I stayed with him during recovery. A few minutes to gather ourselves and Dr Trish took a deep breath and went to tell the young lady......silence for a second and then.......the girl lost it. It was a shitty deal all the way around. She was unconsolable. And rightfully so, one minute he was greeting her at the door and the next he got stiff, meowed out loud and dropped unconsious. Now he's dead. It was a heavy blow.

Bonnie left for a while, it was way more than she could handle after what she'd just been through. My heart broke for her too. We had to gather ourselves and get back on track. It took about an hour for all of us to regroup but we all pushed forward and got through the rest of the day. I started at 7:30 yesterday morning and got home around 7:30 last night so thankful if was Friday. Today I have a couple of dogs to groom at my nieces kennel and then I'm done. I plan to get to things I've been wanting to do for weeks now. Small things like packing my summer clothes and overdue stupid cleaning.

I need a break.

今日は真駒内駅から札幌駅まで歩いてみた。
これくらいならぜんぜん余裕だなあ(^^)。

真駒内駅から平岸駅付近。自衛隊前駅のそばには交通資料館があって札幌地下鉄開発時のプロトタイプや古い電車が飾ってある。たい焼きは澄川で買った。平岸天神の前を通って平岸駅で西に折れる。その交差点には「サッポロ市」の看板。これ絶対札幌市じゃないよな。

幌平橋を通って中島公園へ。コンサートホールのKitaraの前を通り、豊平館を通過。

中島公園の中の紅葉を眺めつつすすきのに突入。昼間のすすきのはおとなしい街だ。

山頭火で塩ラーメンを食べて一気に札幌駅へ。Nike+iPodの表示は12.29km。
今日のごほうびはアイリッシュパブのギネスとBassペールエール。
フィッシュアンドチップスとピクルスがうまかったなあ。

こういうのを楽しみにどんどん歩いてしまうってわけなのだ。
今日は天気がよくて気温も高め。快適な散歩が楽しめた。

より大きな地図で 真駒内駅～札幌駅 を表示

Tomorrow on Good Food, check out my conversation with Good Food listener Natalia Goldberg, who lives in Paraguay.  Here she is making bread pudding

So this day was spent mostly in leisure. Went out and bought some clothes, LOTs of chocolate of all kinds, some vegetables (which I am not going to put in the fridge--yeah, there is a war going on between me the fridge over vegetables) and apples (the current policy favors Granny Smith). Tried a little Taiwanese restaurant. Not good. My food karma is a bit shaky these days. The other night we went to a perfectly good restaurant and I had the most tasteless mussels ever. This time after one taste of the soup I knew the verdict. Then I took some pictures of Q, who laughed and cried "Nazi babies!," insisting that instead of "the Gerber baby also has chin folds," I said "the Goebbels baby also has chin folds." Not fair! The pictures all came out blurry. Then I did a careful study of the colors associated with the Pope, cardinals, and bishops, respectively. I don't know why. But the side effect is the discovery that Bacon's Pope Innocent X is robed in purple, whereas in Velazquez's original he is dressed in red and white (the more properly papal colors). I wonder why. But that's the subject of another day's study. Now I should curb my curiosity and do some "real" work. 

One regret: there was a woman outside the market playing violin. She was really good. My ears are pretty dead to music so when it is something even I find beautiful... Q is very musical and thought she was a genius, disturbed but special. I thought I'd give her some money on my way out, but when we came out she's gone.   

There's a tournament this weekend I wanted to travel to, but it seems unlikely I'll make it now with friends in tow.  My good friend Jon guesstimated it would cost about $40 per person.  So four people altogether would've ran about $160 bucks in gas for both ways? Wait, what the hell?  How does that add up?  I spent about $50 alone for my trip to Dallas, which is about equal distance...something's afoot here...

Sigh.  I seriously need a car that's well-tuned and a little bit more reliable. 

So Bakemonogatari 13 came out this week, and lo and behold the fansubbers were all over it.  Not even a day after it's online stream, people had subtitles ready to go.  Gotta love that dedication! 

I still need to get back to work on that Sket Dance translation.  Been putting it off for far too long since Tekken 6 came out...

ここ1年で日本のネット業界がどう変わったのか、「ブログ・メディア・動画界勢力図詳細」を見てみた
Curious about what Japanese people use while they surf the web?  Check out this crazy chart of user statistics -- great stuff!

トロ・ステーション：09/10/31 - 電脳御殿
Mainichi Isshou: Crazy cat game that's incredibly adorable.  Now with videos?

Eden of the East Films' New Trailer Streamed (Updated) - Anime News Network
Good stuff!

Strippers or Counter-Strike — Which Gets a Gamer's Attention?
We need more studies like this in the U.S.!

美女たちがミルクっぽい官能的なドレスを身にまとった写真集「Milk」 - GIGAZINE
Delicious.  What an excellent use of milk if I say so m'self!

Seth talks about the viability of re-releasing fighters : News : EventHubs.com
Ever wonder why your favorite 2D fighter from the last century hasn't made the cut yet on a next-gen console?  Seth Killian gives a little insight inside into what goes on behind the curtains.

4Gamer.net ― 「鉄拳6」の各要素をゲーマガ編集部が紹介。PS3版とXbox 360版のロード時間なども検証してみた（鉄拳6）
PS3 load times (installed vs uninstalled) are pretty significant.  Like 20 to 30 seconds significant.  And the Xbox360 gets the better end of the stick too!

Think about getting Dad some bread slippers: