Fictionlet

"It's a strange thing about comfort food," Greg said, scribbling notes onto his pad. "You don't necessarily have to eat it to be comforted. Just to have it. For instance, yesterday, I just had a rotten day. Really awful. So I decided to splurge a little and went down to the coffee shop and bought myself a couple of those shortbread cookies of theirs."

Greg paused for a moment, looking reverently off into space. "Mmm, buttery shortbread," he said. Then he continued, "Well, the thing of it is, those things are super-bad for you, you know? So I decided I would wait and just have one of them after dinner yesterday, and left them in the pantry. But knowing the cookie was there, waiting for me to have whenever I might desire it, left me with such a warm and happy glow that by the time dinner rolled around, I felt much better and ended up not eating the cookie after all. They're both still sitting there, little pastry talismans, their warm-fuzzies power cheering me up even now. It's amazing."

"Sorry," mumbled Brigid, coming from the kitchen and wiping shortbread from the corners of her full mouth. "Did you say something? Mmm, that was good." She tossed the cookie wrapper into the trash can.

Greg blinked and finally said, "Me? No, not a word. Must have been your imagination."

"Huh. I could have sworn you said something about fuzzy talismans."

"That doesn't even make sense. Perhaps you're going mad," Greg replied.

-The Gneech

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First, and Second

First, Happy Birthday eskermikey!

Second, from raka: Hyperdrives: A Real Possibility? A three-hour trip to Mars? Sweeeeet.

-The Gneech

And the Fight Goes On

From bearblue: Paradise Lost

Bloody backwards legislature. >.<

-TG

Thursday Workout Report (Dethpickable Edithion)

Tonight's video choice was various Looney Tunes and the first 20 mins or so of Chuck Amuck: The Movie. I could feel my art getting better just watching a film of Chuck Jones doing a little drawing tutorial. 0.o ("Oh, that's how that works. Whoa -- PEAR shape! Brilliant!" etc.)

Anyway, ( here's the numbers... )

Re: Body weight, Tuesday's low was five pounds lower. Even given that Tuesday's workout was before dinner and tonight's was after, that's an awfully big discrepancy. I wonder how much is the scale. (I had french fries last night! Woe is me!)

Tonight's was the last of the "arm-heavy" workout. Starting on Sunday I'll be doing the "Whole Body + Chest + Abdominal" focus workout to see how that compares.

-The Gneech