This dad helped his kid send something to space. That would never had occurred to me as a kid, nor would it have occurred to me teachers. But it is awesome.
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In three days we can all celebrate National Vegetarian Day and also the kick-off of Vegetarian Awareness Month. A whole month just to make sure you all are aware of me and people like me!
Although I questioned, even mocked, vegetarians in my past thinking they were only doing it to lose weight or to follow wacky, unfounded health fads, I’ve been vegetarian for three and 1/2 years now. The thing is, it’s easy. And it makes me feel like less of a hypocrite when I go to my animal rescue every week to help socialize rescued cats. I no longer have to think in my head “Yes, you guys are cute but I eat animals that aren’t like cute like you.”
And being a vegetarian has plenty of other benefits. You can download a World Vegetarian Day poster that will detail many of them, but here are my favorites:
- Reduce the risk of major killers such as heart disease, strokes and cancers while cutting exposure to foodborne pathogens
- Save animals from suffering in factory-farm conditions and from the pain and terror of slaughter
- Preserve irreplaceable ecosystems such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats
- Decrease greenhouse gases that are accelerating global warming
All this by not eating meat!
Thanks to Songbird for alerting me to the holiday!
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Back in July I went to sleep and woke up with a sore back that just wouldn’t go away. It caused me to have to literally roll out of bed to get up and to resort to sleeping on a hardwood floor to be at all comfortable. My primary care physician put me on anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxers but the results were minimal, to say the least. So I waited it out, using a funny pillow on loan from my sister and trying to only sleep on my back. The pain eventually went away. Mostly.
My family doctor had warned me that following this incident I would likely have more occurrences of back pain and that I might want to seek out a chiropractor.
I know people who use chiropractors and they love them but I’ve always looked at this reliance on a chiropractor as a weakness. Or a bad habit. Like how my mom used to warn me, “Once you start cracking your knuckles you’ll only want to do it more!”
Once you say you have back pain, people come out of the woodwork with their recommendations for what to do and most people handed me the name of their chiropractor.
I hesitated and here is what it boiled down to: I have a family member whose name and relationship to me will not be mentioned but who sees a chiropractor who sounds nothing but bat-shit crazy. Bat. Shit. Crazy.
The pain came back recently in a milder form than what I had in July but I was scared that I would be back to sleeping on my office floor, so I did it. I made an appointment with a chiropractor. I saw him for the first time this past Friday and it was weird but he seemed nice and not even a little bat-shit crazy so I figure that’s a good sign.
Later this week or early next week I will get my back x-rayed and figure out what made everything along my spine go wonky and hopefully I’ll get back into tip top shape. If not, the pain might drive me to become bat-shit crazy myself.
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Today I was at day number two of a conference all about digital and I got to see two keynote speakers that pretty much rocked. First off was Greg Coleman, President of the Huffington Post.
Seeing someone who represents a success story in journalism today was awesome.
But maybe not as awesome as another keynote speaker… Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. Did you just read that??? Founder of Pandora. And I got paid to see him speak.
And for reasons like this that working in the digital world rock.
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Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
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