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In which Ceri rests
I have never written much at all about the love of my life, but she's there, and real, and she really is the love of my life, and I of hers. Things have been very, very bad with us lately, in very large measure because she feels-rightly-that all the gender stuff got dumped on her and built up behind her back. She deserves better than that.
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Post-Easter check-in
Not abducted by aliens yet, just having a busy time.
I got to host Mom for an Easter weekend visit, and it went really well. Neither of us is having a super-abundance of good news on a lot of fronts, but we had the time to visit and get to understand just how it is we're both doing and to talk through a whole lot, make some plans, weigh options, and ( Read more... ) -
Men, women, and risk
Matthew Yglesias is far too technocratic to take without lots of grains of salt, but every so often he points at something interesting. This piece on gender differences in risk management is one such. He links to a study of high-ranked chess players which includes this fascinating bit:
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Music moment: "Beat It", gothic metal style
Just like it says in the subject line. Give it a minute and a half to get out of the intro and into the main body of the song.
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Weight Watchers, week 43
I'm still not tracking, since I'm just coming out of really major crisis-type action. Will resume measuring next week, honest.
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City of Heroes: Some of the best NPC dialogue ever
Someone at the studio really, really earned their writing pay one day...
A series of really well-done missions in the upper teens starts off with the PCs helping out Faultline, a young man whose supervillain father was apparently responsible for demolishing an entire district of the city, rescue his impetuous would-be heroine girlfriend, Fusionette ( Read more... ) -
Weight Watchers, week 42
No measurement this week, as I'm in the middle of something yoinking my metabolism around a lot. But then it'll be done.
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Music moment: Queensryche doing covers
So it turns out that Queensryche has out an album's worth of cover songs, Take Cover. Here are the lads from Seattle giving a really excellent treatment to Pink Floyd's great "Welcome to the Machine".
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In which there is real blood pressure progress
To recap: last fall my blood pressure got up to about 200/112 in the doctor's office, at which my doctor expressed some surprise I hadn't already had a stroke, and I started in on treatment for it. This last week I reached some important decisions and started putting them into practice, and wow, it's paying off. Last night, 143/86, and this morning ( Read more... ) -
In which there is good mood
I'm around a couple of big turns this week, it looks like, and getting to look at new vistas of work to do and opportunities to reach for. I'll be writing it all up at more length soon, but for now I just wanted to say: I am a happy camper this afternoon.
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