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Eating a 1950's diet

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 grocery list drawn on farm fresh and in season but don't forget spam bologna Jello potato chips great ad clips Mom and sisters and brandmother did a LOT of homecanning on the farm. Spam is such a frightening culinary and cultural phenomenon check out the Buff Workout app 1:hours of sleep. Blame heat, smoke, and roach treatment. I wanted to get up and start some steel cut oats but instead it was time to order more. Hard to explain why replenishing the steel cut oats supply evokcs such a feeling of well-being. Ditto for hazelnuts though those will need to get roasted.

Chinese Scrambled eggs

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 A lot of the audio is in Chinese, but the concepts are clear enough. I cannot handle a lot of MSG so I would maybe adjust that. 4:25 hours of sleep. Doing one's PT routine at 11 and eating pizza late in evening both made it too easy to stay up way late. But at least fans made it cool enough that a sheet helped about sleeping. A sheet. No nightgown.

Alton Brown Air Fries

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 Urk. For some reason I lost it when the kitchen shears came out. Chicken wings up close and personal 5 ish hours of sleep. Almost completely naked which definitely helped about managing the temperature. Bug guy got there early. I had to make him wait while I put my shoes and socks on. I now have a whole page of follow up instructions I can't read.

The Minoans according their mitochondrial DNA

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 More history written in DNA 5 ish hours of sleep. Feeling pretty energetic AND I was able to bend BOTH knees walking down stairs because the bleeping elevator is once again out of service, this time for some reason related to a smoke detector on the roof. Idle speculation: did #wildfire smoke in the air have something to do with the rooftop smoke de

Cat DNA compared to Dog DNA

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 Do these DNA evolution points also account for the difference between cat people and dog people? 4:?? hours of sleep. Wake up after 4 ish hours of sleep. Drink water. Eat banana. Fall asleep in chair. Go back to bed and try to go back to sleep. Get up. Read email. 10 am appointment cancelled. I will have to do what I can on my own to prepare for Bug sprayer. Sigh. Last PT appointment of this series. Just have to keep doing exercises. but both PT and I are pleased by effort. Also SO easy to procrastinate about needed phone calls.  And next couple days are supposed to be hot and smoky. Wish us all luck.

Finnish New Potato magic

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 Memo to self: Fresh fennel in potato salad is an AWESOME ide abut maybe snip it pretty small. Or go with this recipe. Saturday night 6:56 hours LOTs of exercise walking to and fro re a potluck. Ballard is great for greenery but the sidewalks... A few spots of new, a few curb cuts, and lots of stuff that is crumbly. Worth the walk though. Friday night 5:56 hours Thursday Night the full moon 4 is hours