June 25, 2004

• Updated–

  After visiting Leylach and reading last Sunday’s entry, I decided Friday would be an appropriate time to post this:

  There is a simple way to avoid alcohol hangovers and improve your
  neurological function and general health at the same time–no, not as
  simple as simple abstinence, but probably preferable to many of
  you.  I mean a way to overindulge without suffering the next
  day.  You will still make a fool of yourself the night before, and
  mercifully probably not recall much of it.  It won’t sober you up
  or improve coordination or reasoning faculties while under the influence, etc.  All it will
  do is prevent hangovers and decrease the amount of brain damage the
  alcohol causes.

  Ever hear of Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw?  No?  Well, then,
  welcome to the New Age, the age of life extension and cognitive
  enhancement.  Durk and Sandy and others like them have formulated
  a number of powders and potions to do various things such as clear up
  bad skin and make hair grow better, improve learning and memory, repair joints
  damaged by arthritis, etc.  One of their formulas is the Party Pill. 
  Primarily a bunch of antioxidants and amino acids, I credit it and our
  general regimen of cognitive enhancers with helping keep Greyfox alive
  and functioning until he decided to sober up and get sane.

  Have a safe and happy weekend, everyone.

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  WooHooo!

  As you may or may not know, depending on whether you receive instant updates on ArmsMerchant‘s
  xanga site or have synchronistically or serendipitously been there in
  the last few hours,  Greyfox has posted  the initial episode
  of  The Ludicrous Adventures of Captain Blogfodder.

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  Thursdays are town-trip days.  Alaska is having a heat wave, temps in the eighties, which is hothothot
  for us.  To those acclimated to our extreme cold, fifty Fahrenheit
  is t-shirt weather, and by the time the temp gets up to seventy, we’re
  sweltering in the shade with iced drinks, fanning ourselves.  At
  last night’s meeting, after reading “How it Works”, I sat there and
  fanned myself with the laminated script sheet.  In the supermarket
  last night, one of the few air conditioned places I was in yesterday, I
  heard a woman in shorts and a halter top complaining that she was
  freezing….”What, are we in Arizona here!?!”, apparently miffed at the
  A/C, something we are not accustomed to dealing with.

  Temps at this end of the valley are often ten to twenty degrees lower
  than down at the other end, summer or winter.  I left here around
  noon, dressed comfortably.  When I got to Wasilla in my denim
  skirt and long-sleeve tee, I was way too warm, so I went to the thrift
  store at the rehab ranch to find a cooler shirt.  It’s a Gloria
  Vanderbilt, Hawaiian print, big turquoise-blue flowers on a navy blue
  ground.  The tee I’d worn had some turquoise studs on it, so I’d
  worn turquoise and silver jewelry with it.  I might have
  overlooked that neato shirt if I hadn’t been looking for something to
  go with the turquoise–I don’t usually go for big Hawaiian
  prints.  While I was looking, I also found two more cold-weather
  shirts, one new and the other like-new:  a forest green waffle
  knit shirt with a collar and lacings up the front, and an oatmeal color
  henley.  Got all of them for a couple of bucks.

  Last night on the way home from town, I was talking to myself. 
  Only thing unusual about that this time was that I was speaking
  aloud.  It was just strings of words, free associating.  Some
  of them sorta strung themselves together for me.

  When I got home, I searched out exact text for and posted a few more of
  my favorite quotes.  They can be found at the top of the list in
  my sidebar, main Xanga page.

  Word play?

  …or Work?

      conviction
          commitment    
              will

  courage
      honor
         strength

  the courage of one’s convictions
      to honor one’s commitments
         with strength of will

  presence
      attention
      be present and pay attention
  

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