Cardio Vascular Screening
I went for some cardio-vascular tests today.
Physical activity ~ even if you don’t lose an ounce, you’ll live longer, feel healthier, and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke, or arthritis. It’s the closes thing we have to a wonder drug. ~ Tom Frieden.
This morning I was checked for a potential aortic aneurysm, and I have to admit to being very nervous beforehand. What if they actually found something? It was an ultrasound scan, and they covered from my neck to just above my groin. The cold gell was a bit yucky in places. But, the good news is that I’m utterly, totally, completely clean and fine. No nasty crap in my arteries.
If they had found something it would have meant treatment, up to an operation and strong drugs. It may have also precluded me from overseas travel, and stopped me from driving.
So, the good news just came rolling in, and life is grand again.
The testing doctor even said that I seemed very fit….. Which re-motivates me to take more physical exercise. I may even go back to the tai chi and yoga classes.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Tunes on Tuesday ~ The Great Escape
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can’t revisit it. It vanishes. ~ Adele Parks
Englishmen pf a certain age all have a similar list of their 5 favourite films, and in particular the theme tunes that go with them. This is in my top five.
Many times I’ve wanted to get on a 500cc Triumph and just escape.
All really great motorcycles are British Iron.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Steve McQueen always rode a Triumph
Lies
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. ~ Hitler
Allegedly there are 8 types of lie ~ that is an oversimplification. I don’t believe that you can simply categorise lies. I believe that there are an infinite number of ways that we lie, and that we are lied to, and that most often we are lied to by omission. People just don’t admit to some things they don’t want us to know.
The slickest way in the world to tell a lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time ~ and then shut up. ~ Robert A. Heinlein.
The worst lies of all are those we tell to ourselves, and again mostly these are lies of omission. We refuse to remember some of the bad stuff we have done in our past, and we refuse to admit to ourselves the bad things we fully intend to do in the future. And if anyone asks us about any of that, of course we shall lie and hotly deny our past, present, and probable future sins.
Probably the biggest lie being foisted upon the world at the moment relates to the cause of the fire at the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, which allegedly was an accidental electrical fire, or something like that. I believe that like I believe Parisian women don’t smell of garlic and cigarettes, overlaid with lots of perfume. But if I was a Frenchman in authority, I wouldn’t want to stir up even more sectarian hatred of moslems.
But that matters not one jot. What really matters is how much of the truth we admit to ourselves, and how much of the truth are those we care for telling us.
We should stop expecting loyalty from people who won’t even give us honesty.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
if you think you’re being lied to, then you probably are
Monochrome Monday ~ Corsets
I’m one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
very pretty corset
very, very tiny waist
The Lost Week
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ~ Seneca
There’s a 1945 film noir called The Lost Weekend, starring Ray Milland, which explores the really bad side of drinking far too much. The lead character literally loses an entire weekend ~ and then tries to kill himself over the things he learns when all the misery and pain start to come back to him.
Alcohol and suicide go together like ham and eggs.
As it goes, any booze at all counts as drinking far too much for me. I have no tolerance for alcohol whatsoever. Most people can take a couple of drinks in safety; nothing really bad happens to them. These days I can’t even smell strong drink without something bad happening to me.
Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you. ~ Jay Bylsma.
I took a couple of drinks on April 13th, and didn’t really come around again until April 19th ~ that’s very bad. I lost a whole week out of my life, and for what? I don’t even enjoy the best wines anymore
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Songs on Saturday ~ Pink Floyd
There is not a second of my day that I don’t miss her
Going on vacation without her will not be unadulterated pleasure.
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
but it will be much better than being in England
Scenes on Sunday ~ Turkey
When a man is weary of sunshine and the sea, he is weary of life.
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I a little while I’m going on my first vacation of the year, to Olu Deniz in Turkey. I was there last year, and wasn’t brave enough to go parasailing ~ I’ll be doing that exciting activity this year.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the hotel has only about 20 rooms, but the pool area is really nice
Good Friday
Happy Easter to Everyone
As it’s Good Friday, and according to tradition, I’m having fish for dinner.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Self-medication
I took drink
to take away the pain
I took another drink to do the same
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Murder of Crows
And the crow called the raven black
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And he was far too certain of himself.
Some say that only a geordie boy is a real man. And that whoever wants to relax in the south is a wanker. All I know is that it gets cold in the sunshine here.
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
where the crow commands the captive must obey
