Health and Money

Have you ever wondered why it is so expensive to have a healthy diet? Fresh fruits, vegetables, lean meat, fish, wholesome wholewheat bread all cost a lot.

Why is it that unhealthy foods are such cheap ways to feed a family...$1 McDouble sandwiches.

You either have to be dirt poor and need to grow, forage, or hunt for your food (these people are probably thin because of the exercise expended to feed themselves) or very rich, retired or rich and retired to have the time to grow a garden to have your share of healthy foods.

People who are morbidly obese and unable to work, complain about their lifestyle. But they didn't get fat without help and without opening their mouths. In the meantime, the poor schleprocks are working their butts off to make ends meet, pay their taxes to support these individuals? Something is desperately wrong with this picture.

If fat people had to grow, forage, or hunt for their food, they would either get thinner or starve to death. There is some logic to living a dirt poor life.

June Aphorism

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Enchantment, A Twisted Classic Fantasy

Just got through reading Orson Scott Card's novel, Enchantment, billed as a classic fantasy with a modern twist. While I loved Card's novels, Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, the pace of this novel was too slow for me. There were some interesting twists but it is difficult to weave a story that spans from 900 AD to modern times without getting tangled up. The feel of the novel is old and yet one is jolted into an abyss of anachronistic non-sequitars.

If nothing else, this does suggest the possible linkages of ancestral memories and how some people seem to be gifted with ancient memories and practices which do not seem to be logical. While this novel makes a point for time travelers, there are still instances of people who have demonstrated ancestral knowledge with no seeming reasonable rationale. The mystery remains about the plausibility of certain people's contact with the ancient times, ancient knowledge, and old perspectives.

Southern Comfort for Breakfast

All of you sweet talking Southerners...found the perfect comfort food to start of your Sundays. Go to Hokulani's Steak House for Southern Style Biscuits, with sausage patties and sausage gravy.

Wow!!! A huge platter with two biscuits, buttered and put on the grill to be browned and crisp, 2 sausage patties and an ample amount of rich-thick-yummy sausage gravy. Although I think I can eat a lot, could only eat half of the portion and had to put half in the eat later at home box.

The coffee is also good. The biscuit, sausage, and gravy platter cost $5.95. A winner indeed.