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Jul. 23rd, 2009 13:01Friday July 17, 2009 "Please don't tell my mother what I do for a living," the Wall Street broker begged. "She thinks I'm a politician."
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To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***On the bus leaving there, something difficult to explain. Roughly: I changed the way I visualized my body. (It was mostly kinesthetic and tactile rather than visual, but there doesn't seem to be a good term for this.) More precisely, the way I "saw" under my skin.
The practical result: I'm finding it easier to relax my muscles.
***To the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store on Lake Street. Which turned out to be distributing free day-old bread.
They also had institutional-sized "American home fries." (They're called American fries in some parts of the US and home fries in others.) And institutional-sized mashed sweet potatoes. I passed on both of these.
***On to Aldi supermarket, and then home.
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Saturday July 18, 2009 To Pillsbury House, to pick up Fare For All food.
At the bus stop, I was approached by a Jehovah's Witness missionary. I accepted a flyer for a convention in Rochester MN, and two issues of The Watchtower.
She didn't sound like she was reading from a script. Most door-to-door missionaries
(religious or secular) do.
I'd just missed the #23 bus, so I had time to buy a can of soda. The nearby Tom Thumb had something new to me: Pepsi Throwback. No high fructose corn syrup, made with "natural sugar."
Till now, it's been inconvenient to buy cola made with cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. Mexican Coca-Cola is available in Hispanic groceries; and Coca-Cola makes special cola for Passover.
Why special cola for Passover? Because corn isn't among the grains listed as okay to consume during Passover. Ashkenazic rabbis have decided this means it's not okay; if it was okay, it would have been listed (to the puzzlement of pre-1492 Talmudic scholars, I would think.) As I understand it, Sephardic rabbis disagree.
I consider this kind of intellectual nitpickery the reason why people of Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry have higher IQs than most ethnic groups. It exercises certain kinds of thinking. But IQ tests don't measure common sense.
At Pillsbury House, I paid for next month's Fare For All food and picked up this month's.
***Got a ride to the Mnstf picnic, in Minnehaha Park.
Attendees included Mnstf regulars, irregulars, and a few who didn't look familiar. Also two babies and a toddler. And three German Shepherds, one young, energetic!! and bouncy!! There's an ad which shows a dog on a leash, captioned "Think of him as an exercise machine with hair." This dog would be advanced exercise equipment.
Talked with people. Got a bit of unexpected praise. Ate.
*******
To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***On the bus leaving there, something difficult to explain. Roughly: I changed the way I visualized my body. (It was mostly kinesthetic and tactile rather than visual, but there doesn't seem to be a good term for this.) More precisely, the way I "saw" under my skin.
The practical result: I'm finding it easier to relax my muscles.
***To the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store on Lake Street. Which turned out to be distributing free day-old bread.
They also had institutional-sized "American home fries." (They're called American fries in some parts of the US and home fries in others.) And institutional-sized mashed sweet potatoes. I passed on both of these.
***On to Aldi supermarket, and then home.
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Saturday July 18, 2009 To Pillsbury House, to pick up Fare For All food.
At the bus stop, I was approached by a Jehovah's Witness missionary. I accepted a flyer for a convention in Rochester MN, and two issues of The Watchtower.
She didn't sound like she was reading from a script. Most door-to-door missionaries
(religious or secular) do.
I'd just missed the #23 bus, so I had time to buy a can of soda. The nearby Tom Thumb had something new to me: Pepsi Throwback. No high fructose corn syrup, made with "natural sugar."
Till now, it's been inconvenient to buy cola made with cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. Mexican Coca-Cola is available in Hispanic groceries; and Coca-Cola makes special cola for Passover.
Why special cola for Passover? Because corn isn't among the grains listed as okay to consume during Passover. Ashkenazic rabbis have decided this means it's not okay; if it was okay, it would have been listed (to the puzzlement of pre-1492 Talmudic scholars, I would think.) As I understand it, Sephardic rabbis disagree.
I consider this kind of intellectual nitpickery the reason why people of Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry have higher IQs than most ethnic groups. It exercises certain kinds of thinking. But IQ tests don't measure common sense.
At Pillsbury House, I paid for next month's Fare For All food and picked up this month's.
***Got a ride to the Mnstf picnic, in Minnehaha Park.
Attendees included Mnstf regulars, irregulars, and a few who didn't look familiar. Also two babies and a toddler. And three German Shepherds, one young, energetic!! and bouncy!! There's an ad which shows a dog on a leash, captioned "Think of him as an exercise machine with hair." This dog would be advanced exercise equipment.
Talked with people. Got a bit of unexpected praise. Ate.