Monthly Archives: September 2006

Unicycling

September 29, 2006

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Today LilFunky, my current blog tenant, is writing about unicycling.

Have you ever seen anyone on a unicycle outside of a magician or circus performer? I have. When I lived in the Rouge one of the older boys on our street had a unicycle. I thought it was amazing. Any time I noticed him out there I would be watching from the front steps, driveway or the big window in the dining room of our house. He almost never fell off. I guess he practiced somewhere other than the street before he took it on the road.

I was riding a bike at the time. My brother and I went off on grand adventures in an abandoned golf course that used to be near our area. (Now it’s all new houses). Still, there was something different about the unicycle. It wasn’t about keeping balance it was about having nothing to do with your hands and the whole lack of steering mechanisms. He would steer by kind of twisting his body and giving a little hop. But, the most interesting thing was to watch his hands and arms. There really was not much to do once you had your balance. I think he could have read a book or played video games just to give his hands something to do.

There is a Toronto Unicycling group. Maybe you have one in your area should you be inspired to unicycle.

Put your Good Face Forward

September 29, 2006

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It’s a good thing we have a face on the front of our bodies. As I get older and look at myself in various stages of undress. I begin to think that at some age I won’t know which is my back and which is my front. If it wasn’t for having a face on my front that is. I knew there had to be a good reason for evolution to have stuck it on that side.

Some would say it’s so we can see where we are going. But, I’d add that a lot of people spend far too much time looking back and does that mean their face is on backwards?

Of course having the face on front is good in other ways, like finding your mouth while eating. Can you imagine eating if your face was behind your head? It also lets us walk forwards instead of backwards which works out so much better they way our legs are set up.

Anyway, the downside is seeing yourself from the front. It’s fine while you’re young, in good health and cute. When you by-pass the 40 year old mark things begin to change. It’s like anti-puberty. All those curves and bumps which once were something to be proud of now become a bit worn and saggy looking. Just when I’m old enough to really appreciate boobs they start to forget what they are supposed to look like.

I could go on to mention hair which forgets what colour it should be or sprouts from places I’d rather it stayed away from. But, why let others know about those things? Just imagine me as young and lovely with nary a grey hair or chin hair. On my blog I can be forever young and keep my happy face on in front.

Green Dark Background

September 29, 2006

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I don’t know if you’d call this kind of design brocade or gothic or something completely different. I just like this style. Not so dark would be nice. But you get the idea.

I am Hungry

September 28, 2006

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If you could eat anything and not worry about your health in any way… what would you really eat? The whole meal, not just one thing.

I am cooking salt and pepper sausages which I plan to eat with ketchup. I can smell them cooking. But, if I could have anything at all, I would have a club sandwich with taco chips. Cabbage rolls and lasagna on the side. Then, chocolate, chocolate cheesecake. Along with really good coffee and my Mother’s peach pie. Top that off with vanilla storm ice cream. Maybe some onion rings in there somewhere too, but not the greasy kind.

No doubt there’s something I will think of later that I could have added to that list. But it does sound pretty good as it is.

Brownie Badges!

September 28, 2006

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What five would you pick for yourself? I found them on a site with Brownie goodies.

Do It Your Way

September 28, 2006

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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

With a clear purpose; “the right message, delivered with the right tool, to the right target audience, at the right time, gets the desired results.” – Lloyd F. Bitzer

“Style is the image of character” – Edwards Gibbson 1737-1794, British Historian

Could you Spare a Cup of Fat?

September 28, 2006

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I really think it’s time someone invented a pill that kills fat cells. Just take one and all your extra fat dissolves. How simple would that be. Movie stars could take a double dose so they can keep their skeletal good looks.

If it became common they’d be cheap too. Everyone would have a pill or two as needed. Think of all the savings to the environment. No more exercise and diet books would need to be printed, all those trees could be spared! The existing books could be recycled. You get to choose to compost them or use them as wood burning fuel.

Everyone would wear the same sized clothes, or near enough. Everyone could eat less cause food would get kind of boring if there wasn’t that whole challenge of not getting fat. Then, all those exercise machines and gadgets could be made over into machinery for hospitals, factories and other more productive things.

Health care costs would go way down too. All those doctors working on liposuction, stomach stapling and such would be transferred into more useful things like helping cancer patients and sports injuries cause far more people would be involved in sports and extreme sports too.

I bet things wouldn’t go so well for TV. As people felt better and became more active they’d be less likely or interested in settling down in front of a TV screen for the evening. Maybe more would go out to movies. Likely they would choose something else, something more interesting than watching other people do things. Now, all slim and trimmed up they would do more of those things themselves.

Few people would need a second dose. Once they felt good (emotionally and physically) they wouldn’t settle for a sedientary lifestyle. Keeping active would keep them in better shape.

The one thing I do wonder is what would happen to all that dissolved fat? Could it be somehow put to use. Could it be gathered in it’s dissolved and compressed form and shipped off to all those starving people in Third World countries. I’m not sure how that would work exactly. It could be kind of complicated. However, instead of listening to those informercials begging for dollars you would hear them begging for your used fat cells instead. Your wallet would be of almost no interest if you’d just spare a few hundred fat cells instead.

Thank you very much.