23rd
Sep
My fish is still too weak to swim to the top of the water to eat so I’m feeding him by hand. My girlfriend, Lauren, is a lot more skilled at hand-feeding fish than I am. We have to make sure that the fish eats enough food to recover. Recovery takes strength.
What is with the commercialized promotion of HFCS consumption on TV? Do they really think that the people educated enough to avoid HFCS are going to be dumb enough to fall for this trickery? Is this some sort of weak attempt to ‘call our bluff’ on the topic? Perhaps the Corn Grower’s Association believes that we avoid consuming HFCS without having good reason? I’ll let you all in on a little secret… There are PLENTY of reasons to avoid HFCS.
These commercials are troubling. The fact that this message is contained in a commercial that isn’t advertising a single product is most disturbing. That alone should be enough of an indicator that the message is bogus. The way that the commercials portray the people that avoid HFCS is annoying. They make it appear as if we are cocky and ignorant. Not one of the anti-HFCS actors depicts an educated person with a brain to back up their decision. Instead, the actors cave in and share the consumption of HFCS. WTF??!?!?! I’ve never seen anything more preposterous in my life! What is this world coming to?
Don’t consume HFCS because your tv tells you to. It’s lying to you.
Also, if you’re in the mood to read some cool comments about this topic be sure to check out the following links.
http://www.parentdish.com/2008/09/15/high-fructose-corn-syrup-ads-target-moms/
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/554304
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080906123009AAEtM2k
21st
Sep
Braingelese is sick and I don’t know what’s wrong with her. I’m convinced that she has some sort of internal bleeding but I don’t know if it is getting better or worse. Sometimes she’s doing really well and at sometimes she’s not. I’m not a fish expert. Either way, I hope she pulls through. She’ll be turning three in a few months.
21st
Sep
Jeffrey T. Meyer of The Good Beer Show was able to take a video of the fire in Downtown Muncie. The flames engulfed 30 apartments in a matter of hours. It’s probably one of the biggest fires that the Downtown area has seen in decades. I could see the smoke from my window. My apartment was only a few blocks away.
16th
Sep
I’ve never enjoyed funerals. They have a tendency to bring the focus of our own mortality into the limelight. This funeral was for my Nanny who helped raise my siblings and I when we were little. It was sad but it’s all part of the life cycle so it’s something everyone must deal with at some point.
This was the first time I ever attended a catholic funeral. It was the longest funeral service that I’ve ever attended. We’re talking serious long. My girlfriend is a catholic and had to explain that it was long because there’s a ‘Mass’ involved. She’d be better at explaining it than I am. Although I’ve done my fair share of reading on the topic of ‘catholicism’ I wouldn’t say that I’m qualified to give a detailed explanation of the rituals of catholic funerals.
I’ve decided that, when I cease to exist in the physical world, I want to be cremated. I don’t want people to gather at a church that I never attended. I don’t want a priest talking about my life. I want my friends and family to gather on family land. I want people to remember me through stories told through full wine glasses. I want them to dig a hole in the ground to bury my ashes and then plant an apple in that same hole so that I may feed the tree and create the most delicious apples on the planet. My closest friends can come back every year and harvest the apples as gifts from beyond the grave. I want people to listen to music that I’ve hand selected while they talk. I want every story to be told without any censorship. I want people to remember that I was a human being that lived a real life complete with mistakes as well as successes.
Oh, and if I were to die in the winter… I would want my ashes to be saved until the following spring so that the planting can commence. 
Wow, what a dreadful post. I don’t plan on dieing anytime soon.. Funerals just have a tendency to make me think about stuff like this.
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