I'm trying to get healthier and even succeeding, thanks to Eileen and Sparkpeople.com, and now my new "Fitbit". For me, for today, healthy means dropping weight and feeling stronger. At my age it's not so easy anymore, but it is possible. For the past six months, I'm eating less and healthier, and getting more regular activity, like cardio and strength training and I'm sticking to it. I'm not going to give up.
In August of 2010 I weighed in at a whopping whopper and even my doctor asked if I was getting enough activity. I thought I was, we were geocaching every weekend and more, but the weight kept piling on. The dr had me see a thyroid specialist, to see if we were not banging my head against a brick wall. I have no thyroid, it was nuked back in 86. I've taken replacement meds for a long time. The specialist and I said let's try dropping the cytomel. So now, after 8 years, I'm back on .15mg of synthroyd only every day. Actually, I'm taking them in the middle of the night when I wake up to pee. Apparently the drug companies have no interest in creating a faster acting medication and by taking the pill on a middle of the night empty stomach I can eat a breakfast. I go for blood tests and a re-evaluation next month.
As part of my never ending journey to find the fun in life I am going to take a virtual trip across Canada. From Victoria, BC to St. John's, Nfld... walking! I'm trying to keep my average mileage, according to fitbit, above 5 kms per day. At this rate it will take awhile. Stay Tuned.
Moving Stars and Earth for Water event is a World premiere artistic event which will be presented via Live Webcast on ONE DROP's website (http://www.onedrop.org) on October 9, at 8:00 p.m. EDT. (That's 5:00 p.m. PDT)
After a year training and paying the $35 million ticket price, Guy Laliberte, first Canadian Space Tourist and Founder/CEO of Cirque du Soleil, launched from Baikonur to the Internationl Space Station on September 30. He arrived at ISS today, October 30, for two weeks aboard the orbiting station.
Shanti's 3rd at Willows Beach. The day was fabulous, we wouldn't miss it!
And on another uplifting note:
"Local and national atheist organizations have flourished in recent years,
fed by outrage over the Bush administration’s embrace of the religious right.
A spate of best-selling books on atheism also popularized the notion that
nonbelief is not just an argument but a cause, like environmentalism or muscular dystrophy." Read more at the New York Times.
Posted by Cody on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 @ 08:59:18 PDT(63 reads)
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First they fight abortion,
Birth control is next,
Then comes sex if you're not married,
Finally, out goes sex.
Put the prayers back in the schools,
Install parochiaid,
Allow for corporal punishment,
And then you've got it made!
Chorus:
We're going back, back
To the good old days,
When men were really men
And women knew their place;
Back, back a couple of centuries,
And welcome back the days
Of the theocracy!
The family is so holy
There must be no divorce.
And if a wife is not content,
She must adjust, of course.
And if he's forced to beat her
It's all for her own good;
She must know what her limits are
As any woman should!
Chorus
The next to go is daycare,
It's all a commie plot!
What could be more fulfilling
Than a child, wanted or not?
The woman's work is housework--
God wanted it that way!
A salaried job degrades her, since
She never works for pay!
Chorus
They teach us woman's lot
Is love, honor and obey,
And while their crusty notions
Seem like jokes to us today.
They're sitting in the Capitol,
They're voting on our lives;
If we don't stop them soon
Our freedom will not long survive!
No going back, back
to the bad old days,
When men were really masters
And women were their slaves;
Let's go ahead, ahead
For future centuries
And build a world that's based
On true democracy.
And build a world that's based on true equality.
(A-person)
-- Kristin Lems. (c) 1979 Keline Ding Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. Special courtesy Kristin Lems from her album "In the Out Door," included in "My Thoughts Are Free." For more on Kristin Lems, visit kristinlems.com.
Kristin Lems
Posted by Cody on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 @ 19:48:19 PST(64 reads)
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How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other such gibbering numbskulls get to where they are? How could Republican rallies in 2008 be drowned out by screaming ignoramuses insisting that Barack Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist?(1)
Posted by Cody on Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 09:15:08 PDT(483 reads)
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Published: Thursday, August 14 Victoria Times-Colonist 2008
Shirley Case with the International Rescue Committee was one of four aid workers killed in Afghanistan.
VICTORIA - Shirley Case, one of three foreign aid workers killed this week in Afghanistan, is being mourned by the people who knew her during her years in Victoria.
Case, a 30-year-old woman from Williams Lake, B.C., attended the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University. In 2000, she completed an undergraduate degree in leisure-service administration at UVic, then earned a master's degree in human security and peace-building at Royal Roads in 2005.
Posted by Cody on Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 05:33:38 PDT(398 reads)
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After a wonderful visit with Gail and Stella's litter mates, we headed back to Victoria. Eileen and I couldn't stop smiling, we were hyper-excited. Stella? She didn't mind the trip at all. After settling immediately, she slept. When we got home she had some play time, some dinner, some doggie do time and after an eventful day settled into her crate for a mostly uneventful night. Welcome to our lives Stella. We love you. See Stella's gallery here.
Posted by Cody on Thursday, July 03, 2008 @ 08:19:26 PDT(50 reads)
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Space Science: 100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska Impact
At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch. In a moment, 40 miles from the center of an immense blast of unknown origin, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire. The man at the trading post, and others in a largely uninhabited region of Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, are to be accidental eyewitnesses to cosmological history.
Posted by Cody on Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 20:06:33 PDT(508 reads)
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It's been annus horribulus. My favourite uncle, Bob MacGregor, died and I'm heartbroken. I will always remember him as the most generous, most fun and most caring person. His death shocked our family and we will miss him terribly.
This picture was taken during our visit to Toronto in July 2007. We spent three days with Uncle Bob. He was amazing.
Read more - CBC Obit, Niagara This Week.
Posted by Cody on Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 06:36:25 PDT(628 reads)
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Emergencies come in many forms, and they may require anything from a brief absence from your home to permanent evacuation. Each type of disaster requires different measures to keep your pets safe. The best thing you can do for yourself and your pets is to be prepared. On the west coast, we think about earthquakes. When preparing for the big one, don't forget the needs of your pet! With our Stella on the way we have re-evaluated our emergency supply list. Read more to see the entire list.
Posted by Cody on Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 05:44:55 PDT(514 reads)
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Stella La Bella de Seantiago, born May 5th 2008, will be joining our family on July 2nd. Stella is a Havanese. Needless to say, we are very, very excited about our adding Stella to our family.
Posted by Cody on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 14:06:15 PDT(55 reads)
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WAINWRIGHT, Aline Gregory (nee MacGregor)
Born September 3, 1930 - Died April 9, 2008
Aline left us peacefully, at Hospice Niagara after a lengthy struggle with cancer.
Well remembered for her dedicated work as an active feminist, she was a co-founder of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in Canada. She was a member of Women for Political Action and in the 1972 federal election was a candidate in Rosedale Riding in Toronto. In 1975 she played a prominent role in organizing the first World's International Women's Year Conference held in Mexico City, and in 1977, was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal.
Born in Toronto in 1930, Aline is predeceased by parents Alexander and Catherine MacGregor, by sister Catherine (Kitty) Mann, and by brothers John and Howard MacGregor. She is survived by husband John Wainwright, by brother Robert (Bob) MacGregor of Toronto, by daughters Catherin (Cody) Gregory of Victoria, B.C. and Deanne (Dedee) Gregory of Burnaby, B.C., by step-children John Wainwright of Edmonton, Deborah Jarvis of Grimsby and Jane Wainwright of Grimsby, and by grandson Garnet Clare of Whistler, B.C.
She will be deeply missed by family and friends.
An announcement will be forthcoming about an open house to celebrate Aline's life at the St. Catharines Golf and Country Club, 70 Westchester Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or Hospice Niagara would be gratefully appreciated.
March 6, 2008: Imagine living on a planet where Northern Lights fill the heavens at all hours of the day. Around the clock, even in broad daylight, luminous curtains shimmer and ripple across the sky, mesmerizing anyone who bothers to look.
News flash: Astronomers have discovered such a planet. Its name is Earth.
Yet another senseless murder of a young girl took place in Toronto. Perpetrators and motives will eventually be discovered ... I think we can safely assume values of our humaness, frailness, hope and peace were all missing from the street upon which she was murdered on New Years Day, 2008.
Stefanie Rengel, 14, is seen in this Toronto Police handout photo.
Posted by Cody on Sunday, January 06, 2008 @ 06:48:43 PST(59 reads)
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This time, not in Afghanistan or Iran or Pakistan but in the Canadian city of Toronto, a sixteen year old girl has become a victim of religious prejudice, veil, political Islam, and the compromise with it of the Western governments. This time, the killer is a father who kept pressurizing the neck of his daughter Aghsa (Aqsa Parvez) until the very last minute of her life.
We are all responsible for it.
How long are we going to witness thousands of women and children become victims of stoning to death, mutilation, burning, self-burning, and getting thrown off the balconies? For how long are we going to remain accustomed to this violence that has taken over us and our societies?
Posted by cody on Thursday, December 20, 2007 @ 14:17:48 PST(693 reads)
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It's a good thing to find one's inner bigot...then one can enlighten it.
Perhaps humans are hard-wired for fear? It would explain the vicarious hero/god thing. It's all so anti-humanistic.
"The anti-immigration issue that’s now sweeping the country in my view is no different than the movements that swept the country in the past. You look back at the Chinese Exclusionary Act, or the Know-Nothing movement — these were movements that encouraged Americans to fear foreigners, to fear something that is different, and to stop immigration."
Rudy Giuliani in 1996
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Posted by Cody on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 @ 06:45:27 PST(72 reads)
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``Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance
the nature of the Unknowable.''
_ Ambrose Bierce, ``The Devil's Dictionary''
Most people thought Nietzsche was crazy before his time, 125 years
ago, when his Madman ran through the village, lantern in hand,
declaring that God was dead.
Well, if that diagnosis of the human enterprise was accurate _ and it
was _ then it is just as applicable today as our endeavors persist in
a world of our own making, despite our divine declarations to the
contrary.
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Posted by Cody on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 @ 06:23:14 PST(573 reads)
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Blog: what does God need with a starship? atheism and nonbelief on DVD
"The “debate,” such as it is, between people of faith and people of none has moved in recent years, once again, into the classroom, with the war between those who would teach impressionable students religion in the guise of “intelligent design” and those who, well, wouldn’t. Just out on DVD is the wickedly funny documentary Flock of Dodos [buy at Amazon], from evolutionary biologist and filmmaker Dr. Randy Olson, which destroys creationistic concepts with a wit and an ease that often eludes expert defenders of evolution. Olson is all pro-science, but scientists don’t escape Olson’s withering, sarcastic glare: the inability of those on the factual, reality-based side of the evolution issue to express themselves in ways that the majority of the public without PhDs can understand comes under attack, too. Maybe they shouldn’t just be showing creationists this delightful movie."
Posted by Cody on Thursday, October 25, 2007 @ 13:32:04 PDT(48 reads)
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The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of black holes that populated our early universe.
The findings are a significant new clue in an unsolved mystery: where did all the dust in the young universe originate?
"We were surprised to find what appears to be freshly made dust entrained in the winds that blow away from supermassive black holes," said Ciska Markwick-Kemper of the University of Manchester, U.K. Markwick-Kemper is lead author of a new paper appearing in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "This could explain where the dust came from that was needed to make the first generations of stars in the early universe." -- Read More
Posted by Cody on Thursday, October 25, 2007 @ 12:59:12 PDT(74 reads)
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Thank you Sherry and crew at 
Shirley Case with the International Rescue Committee was one of four aid workers killed in Afghanistan.
June 27, 2008 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
It's been annus horribulus. My favourite uncle, Bob MacGregor, died and I'm heartbroken. I will always remember him as the most generous, most fun and most caring person. His death shocked our family and we will miss him terribly.
Emergencies come in many forms, and they may require anything from a brief absence from your home to permanent evacuation. Each type of disaster requires different measures to keep your pets safe. The best thing you can do for yourself and your pets is to be prepared. On the west coast, we think about earthquakes. When preparing for the big one, don't forget the needs of your pet! With our Stella on the way we have re-evaluated our emergency supply list. Read more to see the entire list.
Stella La Bella de Seantiago, born May 5th 2008, will be joining our family on July 2nd. Stella is a 
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WAINWRIGHT, Aline Gregory (nee MacGregor)
Yet another senseless murder of a young girl took place in Toronto. Perpetrators and motives will eventually be discovered ... I think we can safely assume values of our humaness, frailness, hope and peace were all missing from the street upon which she was murdered on New Years Day, 2008.
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