The flying lizards.

[reddragdiva]

What the hell is it with this early rising. Six on Saturday, 5:30 bloody AM Sunday, six again yesterday and today. If I had some large important writing endeavour I'd be all set. Got a bit more sleep after, thankfully.

I blame the diet and excess energy therefrom. The trouble with binge day on the diet is that I soon feel like I don't want to see food ever again.

The house is actually clean and tidy and I'd actually cleared all the junk out of the back yard Sunday and yesterday. The landlord has also trimmed the front hedge and repainted the front of the house (so it looks better to rent the house next door). I am currently savouring the luxury of boredom. It's a rare treat.

Freda went to the library this morning and was very upset when they wouldn't let her use the six shiny penny coins in her purse to buy a book, and cried all the way home. She was terribly confused, because she had the money right there! She doesn't quite understand that the library books are everyone's and you borrow them then take them back later. arkady grabbed membership forms. Freda'll get the idea soon enough. She can't quite recognise the whole alphabet yet, but recognises some words (e.g. "Play" and "Start" from her CBeebies games) and can write her name with variable accuracy. We keep telling her that when she learns to read, she'll get all the stories.

Comments

[mstevens]

What diet are you dieting?

What happened with the dead landlord drama?

[reddragdiva]

This. The explanations given appear to be filled with pink unicorns, but it seems to be working for me.

Dead landlord entertainment continues forward slowly with slight amusement!

[mstevens]

I have massive dubiousness about anything Tim Ferriss says.

[reddragdiva]

Indeed. As I wrote in Fad diet, fad diets are generated from a confluence of sincerity and stupidity.

* Person does thing A.
* Shortly after, person experiences thing B.
* Person concludes A caused B.
* Person writes book generalising this as the solution for everyone else in the whole world.

This process produces diets suffering certain fairly obvious and important epistemic and scientific deficiencies.

That said, I liked all the food in the diet and the claimed results were remarkable. So I tried it and ... it worked.