BigHominid's Hairy Chasms

Saturday, April 11, 2026

rare to see this guy treat anyone with respect

keto pizza!

Lunch was keto pizza. I made a sheet-pan pizza using that keto-baguette recipe, and the crust turned out heavy but perfectly edible. I've got enough for tomorrow as well, so I guess I know what I'll be eating for Sunday lunch.

There wasn't much to be proud of here. The keto-bread recipe wasn't my invention. The sauce was a bottled arrabbiata from my downstairs grocery. The sausage was that Korean-made salsiccia that I like—manufactured in Hanam City, right next door to Seoul and a 26K walk away. The pepperoni (different brand but still legit) was a brand I found on Coupang. The cheeses I used (two types of mozzarella and one type of Parmigiano reggiano) were also grocery-store purchases. The dusted parmesan and red-chili flakes were purchased, too. All I did was shred the cheese and put the pizza ingredients together.

Result: delicious pizza. Only one problem: even though I spread the "dough" thinly in the sheet pan, the crust still ended up being thick. I think I know the way around that the next time I try making this pizza: I'll slap the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, then roll the dough extremely thinly, then bake the dough while it's still inside the parchment paper so that the paper is easy to remove when the crust comes out of the oven. I think I can make the crust about half as thick as it was today. That said, today's crust wasn't bad at all. Sure, it was on the heavy side, but that's often how I learn: through my mistakes.

Next time will be better. Enjoy the photo essay.

crust, baked, with sauce now added

a closer look at the crust (to which I'd added Everything Bagel seasoning plus oregano)

more cheese (mozz "pearls"), pepperoni, sausage, and shrooms added

Do you put your shrooms on fresh, or do you cook them first? Not cooking your veggies first means their water will render during the pizza bake, and you'll end up with a soggy pizza. I guess one way around that, with mushrooms, is to slice them very thinly, then scatter them sparingly onto the pizza. Or overbake the pizza to make the rendered water evaporate, a tactic that risks burning or drying out your crust.

There were two types of mozz plus Parmigiano reggiano. Low-moisture mozzarella went down over the sauce first, then pepperoni, then those "pearls" of regular mozzarella, then the salsiccia and the shrooms (a combination of oyster and button mushrooms).

For the record, I cooked the shrooms in a mixture of butter and olive oil. I added salt and pepper at the beginning of the cook, and when the shrooms had shrunk toward the end, I added the garlic powder. The smell was extraordinary.

I did most of my prep work for this pizza slowly, over the course of last week. Cooked the sausage on Wednesday. Cooked the shrooms Thursday night. Shredded the cheese early this morning. Everything else came together quickly today.

I almost forgot to add the Parm as the final layer of cheese on top.

I baked the whole thing on low heat for 15 minutes, then blasted the top with my broiler for five minutes.

Come to think of it, I should have used the broiler for at least 7 minutes. More Maillard.

I slid the whole thing onto my large cutting board so I didn't have to use silicone tools to cut the pizza.

Looks pretty damn good from that angle.

a corner piece on my plate

seen from more directly above

a look at the crust's crumb—heavy but good

This is a "bread" recipe that I trust, at least in terms of taste if not texture. In terms of texture, the recipe is awesome right when the bread comes out of the oven, but the moment the bread starts to cool down, it gets heavy and dense. Next time, I'll make a thin-crust pizza.

Snack: Parmigiano rind, microwaved for 30 seconds, then cooled. Crunchy and chewy.

dusted with parmesan and chili flakes

Trivia: parmesan refers to the faux, shitty cheese that Americans know comes in a green, plastic bottle—the cheese we sprinkle indiscriminately on everything. The only cheese that can be labeled as Parmigiano reggiano must come from the Parma region of Italy. This notion of government-controlled naming (appellation contrôlée in French) is important to ensure the authenticity of things like meat, cheese, wine, and other food products. It's a quick and easy way to know whether something is real and/or official.

In all, I'd give today's effort a B+. Pretty good, but there's room for improvement.

lovely time-lapse video of the earth's rotation

This is amazing. I mean, sure—I've seen videos like this before, but this one is just as captivating as the others. Absolutely gorgeous.

a kindred spirit

There are, in fact, people out there who value linguistic competence. Like this guy.

Excerpt:

Do we say “the jury was deadlocked” or “the jury were deadlocked”? Do we say “one pant leg was ripped” or “one pants leg was ripped”?
I realize that some of you—hopefully most of you—do already know this stuff, maybe not in technical terms, but you know it. Even so, I’ll bet that most of you will find something in here that you were not aware of. My goal is to make you all better writers, and sometimes a little review doesn’t hurt. It might point out a mistake you weren’t aware you were making.
As an editor, I find myself hypercritical of advertisements on TV, radio, on signs, and ad copy in general. One has to wonder about the competence of the copy editors at some of these ad agencies when we do see blatant mistakes. For small companies, it’s possible that someone in the company wrote the ad rather than paying an outside agency. Granted, typos and grammar errors probably won’t affect our decision to purchase from a car dealer or to hire a contractor, but if the advertisement is for something where spelling and grammar matter, then that calls into question the quality of the work we’re considering paying for.
It doesn’t make a good impression if an author’s website is laden with spelling and grammatical errors. Even if the author uses an editor for his or her writing, the website should also be reasonably free of errors. I admit that I make errors on my blog, usually caused by rushing to finish the blog. Since I’m also an editor, I should really be more careful.
On the other hand, if the website is for a publishing professional selling services to authors, glaring grammatical and spelling errors will leave a poor impression.

(emphasis added)

What he said.

Apocalypto: the History Buffs takedown

That Rogan-Gibson interview was just to get you in the mindset for this.

konjac noodles: I cannot abide them

What a waste. I'm throwing out the rest of my konjac noodles. Despite using the boil-then-fry method to try to improve the noodles' taste and texture, I hated eating them even with a little spaghetti sauce. And since I refuse to foist this "food" on anyone else, out the noodles go.

when your correction isn't correct

So much of what I do revolves around the idea that poor self-expression sucks out any wit, dignity, or legitimacy from whatever it is you're trying to say. That's my entire campaign, hopeless as it is. Supposedly clever memes are undermined by misspellings, bad grammar, and poor punctuation. Folksy stories and anecdotes are deprived of dignity because a person has no mastery of tense control and subject-verb agreement, no knowledge of what a clause is and what the clause-related rules are. Official pronouncements from high office are undermined by childish over-capitalization and inappropriately coarse, obtuse language.

Worst of all are the people who swoop in to correct this garbage but make their own mistakes in doing so. I was just emailed an example. Here's the background: Melania Trump gave a speech. She got criticized by one dumb pundit named Tim Miller (not the film director), who wrote his tweet in exceedingly poor English. But when someone then swooped in to correct Miller's English, that would-be hero fucked up in his correction. Here's the relevant tweet:

I hate to break this to you, asshole, but your English sucks. What's your excuse? pic.twitter.com/xKoOQu2nmn
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) April 9, 2026

According to most style manuals, you don't capitalize titles like first lady, president, sergeant, mom, etc. unless they're in front of a name or replacing the name.

WRONG: Where's the President?
RIGHT: Where's the president? (no name, so no capital)

WRONG: I heard your Mom was in an accident.
RIGHT: I heard your mom was in an accident. (no name, so no capital)

WRONG: We need to speak with sergeant Montgomery.
RIGHT: We need to speak with Sergeant Montgomery. (capitalize in front of name)

WRONG: Show president Smith your evidence.
RIGHT: Show President Smith your evidence. (capitalize in front of name)

WRONG: You'd better tell dad.
RIGHT: You'd better tell Dad. (replacing a name)

Admittedly, there's some debate about whether first lady should always be capitalized. But most sources suggest the common-sense rule I articulated above: Don't capitalize titles unless they're in front of a name or replacing the name.

My correspondent suggested that the larger point was: Don't criticize someone's English if your own English is worse. I responded that the larger point is undermined when the "correction" is also wrong. Don't trip over your own dick in your haste to correct someone else. And yes, I'm self-aware enough to know I should take this advice, too.

The point is: We all should. Hold yourself to a higher standard. Don't be a lazy fucking slob who mentally litters. Clean up your own goddamn mess.

the hard truth, but there's hope

Saying the things that Whitey is too PC to say.

not true, but still funny

gimme some o' dat ass

Yeah, baby. Daddy like.

Thursday, April 09, 2026

El Popol Vuh

This is a long video, but for folks interested in mythology, religion, and folklore, there might be something in it for you.

"box" announcements are getting aggressive

In my apartment building, the way it works is that you throw your garbage into sorted containers at the B1 level. Most of the sorting is for recycling purposes: plastic bottles and PET containers go in one hamper; drink cans and small, metallic objects go in another; plastic shopping bags and other sheet-like bits of plastic (called "vinyl" in Korean—비닐/binil) go in a third; clothing and other worn items go into a fourth hamper. There's a large space in which to throw one's generic garbage; there's a separate room with various garbage cans into which one can throw one's food waste (which you bag up in special, yellow bags); there's an area specifically for throwing away chairs, an area for other furniture, another area for fluorescent lights, and supposedly an area for different kinds of paper, but I've never figured that one out and have gotten yelled at by the crabby old bastard who struts around the garbage area, looking like the king of his own little dunghill. Anyway, in the same area as the paper disposal, there's a large volume of space devoted to throwing away cardboard boxes.

Perhaps because of the skyrocketing rise of delivery culture, we residents who use Coupang and other shopping/delivery services often receive our ordered products in boxes both big and little. As a result, the number of boxes being thrown away downstairs has grown to unmanageable proportions, and what most of us residents do (yes, me included) is to just toss the empty boxes onto the large, chaotic pile of boxes already there. From the perspective of the mean old man (and, I imagine, his cohorts) who manages the garbage situation, this has become untenable, so since last year, we've begun seeing signs about how we need to follow a certain box-throwing etiquette: first strip off all the packing tape from every box, then deconstruct, flatten, and fold your boxes before placing them in a neat, orderly fashion in the box-tossing area. And most of us (yes, me included) have ignored the initial announcements about this, posted on public walls and inside elevators. I used to stare at such signs with a mildly blank curiosity. They somehow didn't seem relevant.

But now, we've got the PA announcements. One of the loveliest aspects of living in a large, Korean apartment building is that you're subject to routine PA announcements inside your own apartment. I find these announcements to be a rude, disturbing, Orwellian invasion of privacy, but I don't make the rules, and since I live in Seoul, this is part of the price I pay to remain in Korean society. PA announcements are everywhere, including in quiet city parks and even out in the extra-urban farmland, where you'd think you'd be spared the goddamn noise. But, no—as my walks through Korean farmland have taught me, there's no escaping the PA: You will be assaulted by mostly irrelevant noise, like it or not, even when you're out with the cows and the sheep and the ducks and the tractors and the fields. Anyway, the PA announcements in my apartment building now include announcements about box-disposal etiquette, so with Big Brother essentially breathing down my neck, I've reluctantly begun to follow that etiquette. I don't normally have a huge number of boxes to throw away, luckily, so it's not that onerous of a chore, but I do find myself grumbling resentfully as I prep and fold every little (and occasionally big) box.

This means I peel off the shipping box's tape, ball or fold it up, and throw it away separately; I do leave the paper shipping labels on the boxes since they're not tape, per se, and thus far, no one's complained. I deconstruct and fold the boxes down to a manageable size, and when I have the opportunity, I tote them down to the B1 level and dispose of them. Neatly. Orderlily.

I think what I resent about these little, incremental additions of obligatory procedure in my life is how these additions chip away at my free time, my breathing space, my liberty. But, you might respond, by coming to Korea, you already chose to sacrifice many of the liberties that Americans (well, at least red-state Americans) enjoy. That's on you, buddy. Yeah, I've got no rebuttal to that. I did indeed make a choice to reside here, to stay here. Besides, taking responsibility for your own garbage isn't necessarily a bad thing. If anything, it's in the same spirit as my resentment of irresponsible fucks who litter in parks and on the trail. The world is only getting more crowded, and this garbage problem is only going to get worse. More and more, we have to see our world as an increasingly crowded, claustrophobic community.

Of course, it'd be nice to have Mr. Fusions of different sizes all over the place, constantly gobbling trash and converting it pollutionlessly into usable energy. Imagine having a Mr. Fusion unit that uses your garbage to power your apartment. A single kilogram of garbage could theoretically power hundreds of apartments for months, or just your own apartment for years. And how much garbage do you actually produce monthly? Dozens of kilograms, I'm sure. Imagine if you had a Mr. Fusion hooked up to your toilet so that all of your waste—not just Coupang boxes and bags—could be converted into fusion fuel. It's a fantasy, I realize, but damn, what a fantasy. Imagine if the system were such that 60% of your fuel got converted to energy while the remaining 40% came back to you as money. The motivation to keep our streets, parks, forests, and other natural land clean would be extremely powerful. Countries that have rivers, creeks, and sewers clogged with filth and fatbergs would be cleaned up so fast that it would make your head spin and your dick scream for mercy.

But ain't nuthin' like that happening in my lifetime. Ah, well. In the meantime, I need to get back to folding up boxes. And cringing every time the PA comes on.

maybe give Harrod's a try?

Assuming I ever make it to London again, this place is a possibility.

two more units, then onward

I've got two more units' worth of verb quizzes to do, then I move on to the next section, which is specifically about verb tenses. That's five units, so five more quizzes. After that, it's grammatical mood, which is six units; pronouns'll be ten units; adjectives will be seven units; adverbs will be six units; conjunctions and interjections will be three units each (six total); then prepositions will be ten units, and that ought to catch me up—I'll have quizzes t match the curricular material I've written, and anyone who survives the entire gauntlet of quizzes will have my eternal respect. Yes—even after I cark it, my ghost will respect you.

With the basic parts of speech all done, I'll be moving on to punctuation, but I need to create that material first, and it's going to be a while. I had thought I might end this basic-grammar curriculum this year, but it's obviously going to go on until at least 2027 if not longer.

And why? Why do it if it's not earning me any real money? I wish I knew.

But I am impelled.

oolpeu!

A wolf has escaped from a Daejeon zoo according to news seen over at ROK Drop.

An article says in part:

Authorities are searching for a wolf that escaped from Daejeon's O-World theme park on Wednesday morning.
At 9:30 a.m., the Daejeon Metropolitan City government sent out an emergency alert to inform people of the search and capture operation within the zoo’s compound. The theme park houses several rides and a zoo.
O-World reported the wolf’s escape to fire authorities at approximately 10:24 a.m. on the same day.
Along with O-World staffers, fire authorities have deployed 11 personnel to search for the wolf on the loose using nets.
According to O-World, the escaped wolf is two years old and was raised in captivity. It is reported to have escaped while moving into a feeding ground shared by other animals. Although O-World said the wolf was presumed to still be inside the zoo, it was spotted outside the theme park later that day, according to Daejeon Fire Headquarters.
At the time of the escape, O-World immediately evacuated all visitors and blocked further entry. No injuries have been reported so far.

"Presumed to still be inside the zoo." Life... uh... finds a way.

I'm kinda rooting for the wolf as it finds a way.

Next, we need a tiger to escape.

Trivia: Because of phonetic rules inherent to the Korean language, Koreans can't pronounce certain "w-initial" words like wolf, wood, or woman. These words all get converted to "oo-initial" sounds: oolpeu, oodeu, oomahn/oomeon. As a result, these Koreanized words now all begin with glottal stops (IPA symbol: ʔ, basically a question mark without a dot, like when someone with a Cockney accent says "bottle of water"). This is why I've always wondered why some Koreans who have the hanja character 우/禹 in their names (there are many possible "Woo" characters for Korean given names and surnames—see more here if you trust the AI) romanize it as "Woo," which makes non-Koreans inevitably mispronounce the name. Maybe Koreans think it's more dignified-looking than "Oo" or "Ooh" as a name (and they'd be right). Same goes for Koreans with the name 이/李 ("Ee") who romanize their name as "Lee" or "Yi" or even "Rhee" even though the surname is actually pronounced "Ee" in Korean. All of these romanizations invite mispronunciation. Yeah, I realize that a lot of Asians don't romanize their names for the sake of non-Asians, but in adopting that attitude, they merely perpetuate misperceptions and miscommunications. To be fair, something similar happens when Asians find themselves in the West where, even if they spell and pronounce their names au juste, their names will still end up butchered by our callous and crass Western accents.

Another spot of trivia regarding oolpeu and oodeu above: the "eu" sound shouldn't be over-pronounced. It comes out as a barely plosive whoosh of breath. So oolpeu sounds like oolp with an aspirated "p" at the end; oodeu sounds like ood with an aspirated "d" at the end. Here's another example: Koreans hangeulize the word Christmas as 크리스마스, which would be clunkily romanized as keuriseumaseu, or, with hyphens, keu-ri-seu-ma-seu. Pronounced in a slow, exaggerated manner, that romanization makes sense, but when Koreans say 크리스마스 at a natural speed, it comes out sounding an awful lot like Christmas. So please don't over-pronounce the "eu" when you see it. In Japanese, the final "u" that you see in words like tonkatsu is the same deal: the "u" is, ideally, barely audible, but Western YouTube cooks routinely over-pronounce u-final Japanese words, resulting in abominations like "tohn-kaht-soo" (Japanese Schnitzel). It should be closer to "tohn-kahts."

While we're at it, Koreans can't pronounce "yee-initial" English words, either—like year. It comes out sounding like ear with a glottal stop at the beginning (like a Cockney "'ere, guvna'"). Three years ago sounds like three ears ago.

There you go—more shit you'll forget in a day.

Babish and the Wellingtons (no sea shanties)

Chef Brian does homemade Chinese takeout

It's great to see how fearless Western chefs have become with Asian ingredients.

the two types

There are two types of dogs..🐕😅 pic.twitter.com/YNfGoGoLf5
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 27, 2026

Wednesday, April 08, 2026

"worst decision-making" & "suicide by cop"

ready, ready, ready

I spent all day creating three new quizzes, so the following are now ready for you to try out (as always, please leave comments/emails if you find any problems):

Verbs, Part 6: Phrasal/Prepositional Verbs

Verbs, Part 7: Infinitives, Bare Infinitives, and Finite Verbs

Verbs, Part 8: Gerunds vs. Participles

That last unit is more about verbals, but verbals are derived from verbs, and that's why gerunds and participles are in the Verbs section. Give it all a whirl.

Some of you will naturally do well. My lazier, soft-headed learners who never bother to study will keep right on failing (said he with equal parts bitterness and amusement).

one more time, with feeling

The lesson is worth repeating: Respect the fans. Respect the canon. Don't switch everything up or shit on precedent just because you have an agenda.

Joshua's "best" chocolate-chip cookie recipe

These recipes are always "the best" or "the ultimate," but they also look tasty.

cherry blossoms

April 4, 2026—3:54 p.m.

A view from the 14th-floor window next to the freight elevator in my building. That was on April 4. It's now four days later, and the blossoms are already falling and fading. But I've always found it nice that I have, in my own neighborhood, this cherry-blossom parade. The Korean name for cherry blossoms has always struck me as funny: It's beot-ggot/벚꽃, which to me sounds like butt goat... and you know what that means:

my favorite thing when I was a kid

We've learned a lot about octopuses (octopi? octopodes?) since I was a kid, but for a long time, they were my grade-school obsession. Here's a video on octopuses that tells me nothing new but is nevertheless fascinating.

Caution: The video claims the octopus has "nine brains," referring to the central brain and the eight nervous ganglia in its eight arms. But the ganglia, despite giving independence of action to each arm, can only loosely be called "brains" in their own right.

I also learned an interesting little factoid: octopus arms are technically arms, not tentacles because of how the arms' suckers run along the limbs' entire length. Mollusks like squids have two tentacles (suckers only on the ends of the limbs) and eight arms. I didn't know any of this until I read about it just now. As the kids currently say, I was today years old when I found this out. In Korean, an octopus's limbs are miscalled "legs."

secret Santas, but several months late

It's my fault that this is so late. This video came out last year, on December 22.

seems I'm headed that way

I am slow of speech and tongue.
—Moses, Exodus 4:10

Headline:

Scientists Identified a Speech Trait That Foreshadows Cognitive Decline

Early signs of Alzheimer's disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it's not yet clear which details of our diction are most critical for diagnosis.
A study from 2023 suggests that as we age, how we say something may matter more than what we say. Researchers at the University of Toronto think the pace of everyday speech may be a better indicator of cognitive decline than difficulty finding a word.
"Our results indicate that changes in general talking speed may reflect changes in the brain," said cognitive neuroscientist Jed Meltzer when the research was published.
"This suggests that talking speed should be tested as part of standard cognitive assessments to help clinicians detect cognitive decline faster and help older adults support their brain health as they age."
Lethologica, also known as the 'tip of the tongue' phenomenon, is experienced by young and old alike. But as we grow older, finding the names for things can become more challenging, especially after age 60.
To explore why that is, researchers asked 125 healthy adults, aged 18 to 90, to describe a scene in detail.
Next, the participants were shown pictures of everyday objects while listening to audio that was designed to confirm or confuse them.
For instance, if participants were shown a picture of a broom, the audio might say 'groom', which helps them recall the word through rhyme. But on the flip side, the audio might also offer a related word like 'mop', which can momentarily lead the brain astray.
The faster a person's natural speech in the first task, the more quickly they came up with answers in the second task.
The findings align with the 'processing speed theory', which argues that a general slowdown in cognitive processing lies at the very center of cognitive decline, not a slowdown in memory centers specifically.
"It is clear that older adults are significantly slower than younger adults in completing various cognitive tasks, including word-production tasks such as picture naming, answering questions, or reading written words," explained a team led by University of Toronto psychologist Hsi T. Wei.
"In natural speech, older adults also tend to produce more dysfluencies such as unfilled and filled pauses (e.g., "uh" and "um") in between speech and have a generally slower speech rate."
In a 2024 piece for The Conversation, dementia researcher Claire Lancaster said that the study from Toronto "has opened exciting doors… showing that it's not just what we say but how fast we say it that can reveal cognitive changes."
Recently, some AI algorithms have used speech patterns to predict an Alzheimer's diagnosis with an accuracy of 78.5 percent.
Other studies have found that patients with more signs of amyloid plaque in their brains are 1.2 times more likely to show speech-related problems.
Amyloid plaques are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, as are tau tangles.
In 2024, researchers at Stanford University led a study that found longer pauses and slower speech rates were associated with higher levels of tangled tau proteins.
Neuroimaging records of 237 cognitively unimpaired adults suggest that those with greater tau burdens tended to have a slower speech rate, longer pauses between speech, and more pauses overall.
Interestingly, participants with greater evidence of tau in their brains did not have greater difficulty producing the correct answer on memory recall tests.
Perhaps participants dealing with early memory issues are still finding the right answer; they are just taking longer to get there, leading to slower speech with more pauses.
If that's true, then speech patterns during memory recall tests could provide whole new intel on a person's neurological state, not captured by traditional tests.

Read the rest. I find that, these days, I speak more slowly and think more slowly. Our time on is earth is limited, and one never knows where on the conveyor belt one is, or when, exactly, one will drop off its edge.

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Max and the überCow

Dave Cullen on the crushing inevitability of AI

Truth and illusion:

"The only answer, I think, is the Great Turning Away: turning away from the internet itself because the internet may become useless for things it was previously useful for, like getting news, doing research, etc. Fake historical documentaries could be made using AI, and history itself could be rewritten in such a convincing manner that people will believe it."

Verbs Part 5: done

The quiz for Verbs, Part 5: Regular/Irregular Verbs, Active/Passive Voice is now done. Give it a whirl and leave comments if you have any. I might be done with all ten verb-related units by the end of this week.

And now... back to the movie-review book, which is currently 243 pages long and will likely be over 300 pages long by the time I finish Volume 1 (which goes from 2004 to 2015). As time has gone on, my reviews have gotten longer on average, so Volume 2 will be 2016-2018 or so, then Volume 3 will be 2019-2022, then Volume 4 will bring us almost up to date: 2023-2026-ish.

And as you see, I still have no title for the book/series. Should I do what fantasy series do and give the series a series title, then a different title for each individual volume, or should I use only one title and just change the subtitle to Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, etc.?

Mark vs. Luke

When you've been Force-fed:

dealing with konjac noodles

Remember my previous report on eating konjac noodles straight out of the package? Ick. I tried pan-frying them to see whether I could get them to a state like Chinese crispy-fried noodles. No such luck. But something good did happen, though: The noodles' taste and texture improved. So I went online and looked up what other people were doing with their noodles, which is how I discovered what seems to be most people's go-to method: first boil the noodles for about five minutes, then pan-fry them. While the texture can never be 100% that of regular pasta, there will be a radical improvement. So I'll be trying that method, maybe as soon as this weekend.

health report

Blood sugar is down to 107, but for some reason, blood pressure is way up to 144/87. No idea why. Maybe lack of exercise as I allow my toe to heal? Hmmm. In recent weeks, my BP has been as low as 117/72 (March 27), 117/70 (March 29), 116/70 (March 31), 102/74 (April 1), 108/81 (April 4), and 124/77 (April 5, actually considered "yellow zone" on my BP monitor). I think I need to get off my ass and get moving, especially with spring now in fuller flower.