Done yesterday (20110425 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0425 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth, coffee, dishes, light
  * posted "Done yesterday" before reading LJ, something I've been considering
    for a while.  Seems to work in the sense of giving me more time to post.
  : still a bug in "make off" -- may need to use nohup.
  * walk:  to/from Skyport via Technology 
    ! pleasant; more mindful than usual.  No scrim?
  % I have a lot of trouble explaining things that are obvious to me but not
    to the person I'm talking to.  (Translation:  (coworker)S still doesn't
    get it.  Other people, like G and K, are still having trouble with it.)
  : according to C's doctor, blueberries are like lactose -- if you don't eat
    them early enough in your life, you don't develop the enzyme that lets you
    digest them.  A large fraction of CA population is blueberry-intolerant.
    Wonder whether this explains the YD's mushroom problem.  That could be
    related to a mold allergy though.
  * practice:  QV, The Cap and Bells
  * pay bills
  * do I have Worldcon memberships? -> yes
  * bath, bed ~11; didn't sleep all that well.

Probably not a bad day, but it felt pretty frustrating. I'm still struggling to get across some concepts at work that seem very obvious to me, but are apparently difficult for some of my coworkers to grasp. I'm doing my best to write them up, but I really don't expect that to get very far down the path to understanding.

I seem to have a lot of trouble explaining things that are obvious to me but not to the person I'm talking to; I get frustrated and upset. I'm now trying to communicate through (hopefully more diplomatic) intermediaries on the work thing, but that has its own problems.

My walk was short, but maybe a bit more mindful than usual. By the end, at least, I was mostly just looking at the trees with their new leaves, washed clean by the night-time rain and morning mist.

According to Colleen's doctor, a sizeable fraction of California's population shares her blueberry intolerance -- apparently it's something like lactose intolerance; you don't develop the ability to process them if you don't grow up eating them. Weird.

I did some practicing; QV and The Cap and Bells. That felt good.

No links. How did that happen?

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I had no idea there were people in the world with blueberry intolerance. I know if people *stop* drinking milk for a few years, they will develop lactose intolerance.

[mdlbear]

My wife and both daughters, all CA natives. Yeah; weird.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Blueberry intolerance?? I'd be very unhappy to have that - I'm a blueberry junkie.

I guess all the more for me... ;)

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever ate blueberries until sometime after I was 50, and I'm now eating them regularly. I stopped drinking milk some while back, so I may have lost my lactose tolerance. Maybe I should check.