Random bullet points

• I really spend far, far too much time in front of the computer.
• I’m thinking of fasting all day Saturday, just to see if I can do it. It’s a good day for it — I don’t have anything planned, I don’t go the gym on Saturdays (it keeps shabbat hours), my parents are taking me out to dinner on Friday, and I think I’ll be at a barbecue on Sunday.
• I need to be getting to the gym four or more days a week, not this one or two days thing I’ve been doing.
• Tim Powers kicks ass. (I’m most of the way through Declare.)
• So does Carla Speed McNeil. (I reread a chunk of Talisman today.)
• Mmmmm, cherries.
• Alizarin crimson and pthalo green combine to make a pretty good black.
• I need to work darker in watercolors.
• Cactus fruits have sweet flesh, but lots of little hard seeds.
• Wet paper dries out surprisingly quickly.
• You wouldn’t think there’s be an upside to the guy in the upstairs apartment hammering relentlessly on something for five to ten minutes, but there is: The vibrations can bring a burned-out light bulb in a ceiling lamp back to life. (They’re special full-spectrum bulbs that I need to travel into Manhattan to replace; naturally, one of them chose to burn out after a multi-day stretch of going in to the city, within a few blocks of Just Bulbs, every day.)

Does anyone else...

...upon seeing a TV ad for the new Harrison Ford movie, K-19, think Wasn’t that a Steely Dan song?

Considering Atkins

I’ve been hearing good things about the Atkins Diet, and impatient with my own rate of weight loss (285 this morning), I skimmed the book at Barnes & Noble today. Two thoughts:

• A weight-loss diet that encourages me to eat as much bacon as I want? Maybe there is a benevolent deity!
• No fruit?! Yow! I think I’ll wait till after cherry season ends.

I’m also looking at modifying my excercise regimen. Like, maybe, actually going to the gym. (Three times this week: Monday, yesterday, today.)