Month: November 2018

  • Post-Thanksgiving

    Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine went well; just battled a cat (allergy) for some of the time. Time to fight off the rains over the next three days, which chould help melt the snow to a more acceptable level. Got a response to the Tryptophan post last week – “The Myth of Tryptophan.”…

  • Tryptophan

    It’s Thanksgiving week, so it’s time to hear about how the tryptophan in turkey makes us tired. I always wondered about that , and read that while tryptophan helps produce Niacin in the body, which helps with sleep, the reason why people get tired has more to do with everything else we jam into our…

  • I am healing

    Thank you, everyone, for your concern. I am healing (slowly, oh so slowly). “Weeks” is the latest prognosis for how long I’ll be sore and achy – again, better than the alternatives. Need to get the insurance company going, though (theirs). Got a jazz podcast to share. Lots of great jazz put out this year,…

  • Crash!

    I’ll steal my son’s joke – “hey, the license plate looks ok.” I hurt. On Thursday night, as I was sitting in traffic (the normal back up on Spaulding) I was hit from behind by someone going around 40 MPH (gleaned from conversation – I wasn’t looking). I don’t know if you’ve experienced being in…

  • Vote!

    Simple post today – VOTE! Just get out there and vote. We need everyone to vote, with no excuses. I had an excuse – I’ll be away on Tuesday and can’t vote, so I got an absentee ballot. So vote, no matter that it’s the mid-terms – it’s big, as all elections are (and should…