A waist is a terrible thing to mind...

Tis the season to especially watch what we eat... starting with Halloween, a couple birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the holiday parties, News Years Eve, the Sunday football parties and all the while being less active since the sun, "it aint shining" after 5 PM.

Oh well.

I am able to sit upright for a few minutes today, the first time since hurting my back early Sunday morning. I wasn't doing much, just lifting a heavy chair with a swivel base over a door threshold when the chair swiveled, twisting my back with it. I saw the usual stars and ended up on the floor. Sigh, I think this is about 5th or 6th time this has happened. Once I was shovelling snow and turned to throw the snow on to the bank ... and down I went.

After I can tolerate standing a bit, I know I will have to walk (slowly) for a ways, perhaps 2-3 miles, for all the muscles back there (I mean "all" collectively, not "all" like in incredible Hulk massive!) to warm up, loosen up and ease the pull on the lower spine. After that, I'm good to go, until I twist it again. I've become very very careful... this last time was an unexpected accident.

Anywaysy, its back to the prone position. I've made a dent in my backlog of stuff to read, I might even have to go through with the paying the bills to keep from totally being bored silly.

Found a couple websites (blogs) that I enjoyed...

http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/ which is, loosely, a political activism blog against over-development in Queens borough (one of the 5 boroughs that make up New York City)

and

http://www.newyorkshitty.com/ which is about a Brooklyn woman that crusades against the trash, poop, and other ugliness that city dwellers are forced to put up with (including scum that masterbate while riding the subways). Her "tirades" against vinyl siding, dog poop and the like are, in my opinion, humorous, marvelously written (the tongue in cheek stuff is superb!) and well directed.

All for your consideration. I am tempted to start one called Philthy-delphia... but nah, that would be far too easy.

Cough Drops

This elderly woman passed a police van loading up the girls from a local brothel, and as she passed by, she asked one girl what the lineup was for.

The girl shrugged and said, jokingly, "cough drops" and snickered.

Just then the cop approached the old gal and said, "What are you doing here, ma'am?"

The woman pulled herself up to her full height of 4'9" and replied, "Well, I can suck em can't I?"

Digital Film is Cool Stuff

Some more cool photographs from someone else... The first is a sunset photo...



The maple tree's are best this year, I think...



This is from near Smyrna Delaware...



And as they used to say on Monty Python, "Now for something different."

A slow day in ... "paradise"

I stumbled into the blog site below:

http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

and enjoyed a few laughs. The point being made is that quote marks are way overused and misused.

The premise is that quote marks mean "not really what is in the quotes".

Okay, chew on that one...

"Apple Pie" for instance is ... well, its not really apple pie, its fake/mock apple pie.