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I slept in again Saturday. ( Health inventory )

Saturday we cleaned house. Dusting even occurred. The public spaces of the house are quite clean: the plants on the deck trimmed back and tidied, birdseed swept up, the roomba refurbished and able to run for a long time, the big red vacuum cleaner out and places the roomba doesn't do well, done, dusting in the living room, tidied and the new bookshelves taking on stuff. Christine took on the bathroom and kitchen to spare my hand water contact.

My brother was going to break the Ramadan fast with his in-laws, but his brother in law was able to get him to us a little earlier. It was after dark when we went out to dinner with him. He'd just arrived from China that morning, and had little sleep, so he fell asleep, very quickly when we came home. He didn't seem to be stirring until 7 am. He and i sat on the deck and drank tea, then drove up to a Hobee's for breakfast, and left him at the airport around 10:30. He seemed well, not terribly stressed. He's a touch homesick for the States, it seems. They're in the adoption process for a daughter, and my SIL has a very good job now, so they aren't in a rush to return, but i don't think he intends to stay there a whole decade. They're at the six year mark now. ( My brother's family and adopting cross-cultures. )

The rest of the day was low-key, as the cleaning Saturday had been intense. We watched "Red Riding: 1974" and didn't like it. It seemed to go on forever: just a little too experimental. I'm trying to decide what it is that makes this a little boring and Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue powerful. I suppose that the bleak story of Red Riding set in the context of horrible violence and corruption is just too over-the top. A bleak story set in the mundanity of everyday life, told in a more challenging cinematographic language is one thing, but then to season it with brutal scenes of torture and a backdrop of abuse and violence just seems gratuitous to me. While i'm intellectually tempted by the next two episodes (shot in different media by different directors), i'm really not interested in the story.

We had a pleasant two mile evening walk, with many critter sightings. Most impressively was seeing the family of five raccoons leaving the shelter of a utility room of an housing complex. We'd seen the single mother raccoon in that area before, and had been warned she had several babies.

I made a yummy (as possible) pot-pie with the Maseca corn flour filled with barely seasoned black beans, cheddar cheese, and avocados in one of my tiny loaf pans. My guess of 350° for 25 minutes was on the nose. Bland, ok, but good. I have plenty of corn in my diet now.

I have Meeting responsibilities that are a bit much for me, and i'm going to try and pass them over to others. Oh my, Meeting for business is this coming Sunday. *Swoon* The point is, i lecture myself, that work for pay and work as a volunteer, should all be done from the center and not from the place of stress. How am i going to stay centered the next two weeks?

I'm up early today, need to get in another walk, need to come up with bland meals for the week, peoplesoft, tidy the deck area, and look at the todo lists.... From the center. And carrot juice. I should go ahead and make carrot juice.

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Rah, rah. A number of things seem to have gone wonky -- some things possibly due to a Mobile Me failure, an operator error, a spotlight indexing error. I found there was some problem with the root disk and ran the repair script on the install disk, and the problem was fixed. I've triggered a from scratch reindexing od my root drive, so before i go to bed there should be evidence whether i've lost mail or if i just had a corrupt index.

I've got my backup circa my return from Ohio to compare, and yes, a backup from before Ohio. So...

Anyhow. Thank heavens for incessant blogging. On Aug. 18th, 2010|06:19 am, i blogged about what i'm looking for. I seem to have lost the draft blog post and

Aug 7-20 appears to be one big empty space in my mail archive. I must have done something stupid, because it's not all mail that's gone, just mail in the archive folder. I traveled on the 20th, so the backups may or may not have occurred after the stupid stunt. And, woohoo, i have mail through the 17th on the backup from before i left. (There may be messages in the inboxes that i later moved to the archive between the 17th and the deletion on the 20th ....)

MEANWHILE

I am S-M-R-T and made carrot juice this afternoon with a great big heaping amount of ginger. Whoops. But there are two small "juiceboxes" filled to the brim (no oxygen, no oxidation?) with juice for tomorrow and Wednesday. I think the juice will be fine.

In "Is she a hypocondriac or what" behaviors, i feel aftereffects from the ginger. Is this heartburn/reflux? I've been in bland-o-meal land so long, perhaps i now see the effects of spicy foods? Note that reflux can be a trigger for canker sores -- i finished the proton inhibitors just a few weeks ago, though. Fiddlesticks?