23 and me

So, 23 and me has still not completed my genome analysis. I verified with them that yes, they’ve received my tube of spit and, yes, I really do have to wait the 4 to 6 weeks for the results.

I find myself wondering what I’ll do when I get the data. Here’s my preliminary list:

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Chair

I need a new office chair. My current one is old and busted. What do you people sit on while you work your long hours in front of a keyboard?

* Does your back hurt? * Do your shoulders hurt? * Does your butt get all sweaty and/or go to sleep?

Politics

Okay, what gives?

Castro resigns, AND Musharraf accepts defeat?

Something is out of whack.

Lungfish, and sick cows

Well, I’ve had The Cough for long enough that it needs a name: Its name is now “lungfish.”

In other news, the biggest meat recall in history is underway. 145 MILLION pounds of beef. That’s 1.45E8 for the geeks in the crowd. At between 500 and 800 pounds of meat (usable) per cow, that’s between . . . → Read More: Lungfish, and sick cows

Mouse party!

This one is 100% for justkidding_nr: Mouse Party.

Television

I may have mentioned the news crew that came by the dojo to film some self defense footage. Well, it aired.

Yup. That’s me on TV. Yup.

In which I get owned on the mat.

Tuesday and Wed are open sparring nights at my Judo school. Tuesday we start standing up, and Wed is for grappling. Jay, who runs the school, is very informal about a great many things – but he is quite firm on the fact that he teaches on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays … and on Tuesdays . . . → Read More: In which I get owned on the mat.

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Back to judo this evening. Class was *huge*, perhaps 20 of us. We worked from 7:30 to 9:30, and I think that I managed to get through the evening without re-injuring my back. True, true, any back “injury” that goes away after 2 weeks wasn’t a very big one but damn it was annoying while . . . → Read More:

Pictures from New Mexico

redmed went ahead and made a nice photo album from our travels in New Mexico. It’s here.

Countries

Shame.

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