The Visible Woman...October 26, 2003

I was dreaming of taking a dog we used to have, Lucky, somewhere with me and also having taken responsibility for some friend or relation who was helping herself to things in a store and a restaurant.

It was rainy outside, the front having arrived. We hadn't reset our clocks so we knew we had that 'extra hour.'

We had an appointment with an acupuncturist at 10 AM to show him the building. I wondered if he'd remember to reset his clock. Anyway...after we got up we got a call that he had a fever and would like to see it Tuesday. Fine. One less thing to do. Wonder if he sticks needles in himself for the fever?

So..thus freed up we do something we haven't done in a while and watch CBS Sunday Morning. I like a segment about a lab for architecture students where they build unusual houses for low-income people.

Around ten I decide it is time to go to the gym. I start thinking that if I dedicated the amount of time to anything else that I devote to the gym then I could actually accomplish something in some other arena. It's all about spending some amount of time in order to plan, learn, accomplish. This is especially true in the gym. You have to show up over and over. When you go, you can use your time wisely and well but, regardless, you have to keep doing it. Like laundry and housework, bills and grooming, it's never done.

I have got to figure out a way to put in the time on my other pursuits like I do in the gym. It seems one could concentrate long enough to get a particular job done if one could do all these other things, day after day.

But, hey, I got the laundry done. With FFP's help. Repetitve tasks get done. I have succeeded in cleaning out our master bedroom, closets and bath, too. A one-time job of huge proportions.

Somehow the dreary day masked the time and stole the 'extra' hour away. There are time thiefs out there, I tell you.

scary "Time the destroyer is time the preserver." T.S.Eliot	one extra hour Changing clocks gives one pause about the meaning of time and our use of it. I was dreaming of taking a dog we used to have, Lucky, somewhere with me and also having taken responsibility for some friend or relation who was helping herself to things in a store and a restaurant. It was rainy outside, the front having arrived. We hadn't reset our clocks so we knew we had that 'extra hour.' We had an appointment with an acupuncturist at 10 AM to show him the building. I wondered if he'd remember to reset his clock. Anyway...after we got up we got a call that he had a fever and would like to see it Tuesday. Fine. One less thing to do. Wonder if he sticks needles in himself for the fever? So..thus freed up we do something we haven't done in a while and watch CBS Sunday Morning. I like a segment about a lab for architecture students where they build unusual houses for low-income people. Around ten I decide it is time to go to the gym. I start thinking that if I dedicated the amount of time to anything else that I devote to the gym then I could actually accomplish something in some other arena. It's all about spending some amount of time in order to plan, learn, accomplish. This is especially true in the gym. You have to show up over and over. When you go, you can use your time wisely and well but, regardless, you have to keep doing it. Like laundry and housework, bills and grooming, it's never done. I have got to figure out a way to put in the time on my other pursuits like I do in the gym. It seems one could concentrate long enough to get a particular job done if one could do all these other things, day after day. But, hey, I got the laundry done. With FFP's help. Repetitve tasks get done. I have succeeded in cleaning out our master bedroom, closets and bath, too. A one-time job of huge proportions. Somehow the dreary day masked the time and stole the 'extra' hour away. There are time thiefs out there, I tell you.
JUST TYPING What's an hour? Especially one Manufactured in spring, Reaped in fall Going into a void. Coming from nowhere. Back again. How to spend an hour? A day? A year? A budget for time. Ours is short.
		Food Diary. *breakfast* 1 slice provolone (100 calories), boiled egg, green onions *lunch* Leg and thigh of a rotisserie chicken. Spinach salad with mozzarella, green onions, slivered almounds, Marie's Bleu Cheese viniagrette, green pepper. 5.5 ounce spicy V8 *snacks* some cheddar cheese and green onions and a few chips *dinner* chili with cheese and onions (It was canned...I chose the all-fat meaty kind over the vegetarian kind we had in the pantry. I hate reading labels but this chili had something like 750 calories in a can) Today I didn't - drink alcohol (or anything else except black coffee and water) - eat the cookies at the reception we went to
		Time flies.... It's really eleven but it says ten when I decide it's time to think about the gym. Even at that I have to muddle about a few more minutes and then go to get gas on my way. It's lunch time when I get home and I have to pull something out and eat it and clean up and shower and dress because we have somewhere to go at 2pm. This reception lasted until 4pm. I did a 'thank you' note for someone and wasted the rest of the evening reading newspapers and watching TV and snacking and then eating what I loosely called supper.

		Reading. Read some papers. Read .I.F. Stone's A Nonconformist History of our Times: The War Years 1939-1945 at the gym. On some things he is right. On relying on the Soviet Union to stamp out Nazis in Germany well, um, maybe he doesn't see the sinister side of Stalin and his legacy when he cites the 'working class orientation.' It's interesting to see the political arguments going forward with the big events in the war just background things, almost foregone conclusions, everyone looking to 'after the war.' Read Paris in Mind a little at the gym
		Still jotting ideas about the silly columns I'm thinking of submitting.
		Exercise Thirty minutes on bike. Chest and triceps exercises. Abs and stretches. Thirty minutes on treadmill.
	.	119/69 72 Mood is good even though day is dreary. Felt a little weird Sunday night desperation even though, of course, I don't work and Sunday night is just another night. What's up with that?
	New section added today that will emcompass the following: links I found interesting; my history (drawn from the old online journals and paper ones); ideas that I had but never acted on that I've now found in the news. This might be called the Tangled WEB section and I might design or purloin an illustration for this spot one day.	One year ago "My point is...see this movie. It's a nice counterpoint to all the other movies you see where there is gun play at the center, where a shooting is the 'something that happens' to move the plot.." was my comment on Real Women Have Curves. I Had this Idea that it would be neat to take pictures all over Austin recording the GPS coordinates and date and time and put them on a WEB site, accessible with maps. I even told my friend SuRu this idea. I am not, of course, the first to think of it, I discover. Two sites with a somewhat worldwide scope and not much material available are wwmx.org and GeoSnapper.com. I'm pretty sure I liked this idea just because I could buy a new gadget. Then I thought digital cameras should include a GPS. Or any camera, really, and for U.S. use a atomic clock receiver and then the data would be right there and pretty accurate One of these sites claimed such cameras were coming and, yeah, of course they are. Soon all PDAs will have GPS. Some already do. All computers, probably. Certainly all laptops. And all cars. And then we will get the chip under our skin. We will still be lost, though. We will know where on the planet we are but not what we should be doing.. A Really Good Idea Someone should Work Harder on Also a link from the news is the findatoilet.comWEB site. There isn't much there but it is a good idea.