#1348: Thursday, January 15 - Biographical details

Post 1348, Day 15 of 2015
- 1,476 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I get told to write a book often. I'm not interested.

Why? One reason is that I don't want to be fact-checked. I have no idea how much of my personal history I remember correctly, and I don't want to know.

Many of my most 'interesting/sensational' experiences happened while I was in an altered state of mind. I'm not only talking about drugs and alcohol, either. It is very likely that my recollection bears little resemblance to the actual occurrences. In every case in my life, when I've told a story along with someone else on the scene, we've ended up correcting each other, with absolutely no certainty over who, if anybody, had the details right.

And it doesn't matter. It certainly doesn't matter to me. But I think it's okay to rewrite your personal history, at least as long as there is no intention to deceive and/or defraud. In fact, that's almost always the way it's done.

As has been pointed out, history is written (and re-written) by the winners, or, at least the survivors. Personally, I think I'm both, not that that makes me feel entitled. It just makes me think I'm part of the human tradition.

These days (in my dotage), I answer all questions as honestly as I can. That doesn't mean I answer factually (see above), but I give true answers to the best of my ability.

I don't really want to write an autobiography, but I'd love to tell my story. Maybe a brief, condensed, Classics Illustrated version - you know, highlights.

Or at least the parts that serve as cautionary. There are certainly a lot of those. That would be a public service, I think.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   204.4 lbs

Previous Weight (1/14):           205.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 0.6 lbs

Diet Comment

I wasn't expecting a loss. I almost never lose weight after eating out, especially when I cheat at the end. I'm not complaining, mind you.

Food Log

Breakfast
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), celery, raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend

Lunch

Tuna salad and baby kale, baby spinach, chard, black beans and cole slaw mix. Not shown: Home-made chocolate chip and macadamia nut cookie.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Dinner
An omelet with sauteed peppers and onions, cappicola, and Dubliner cheese.

Snack
Dubliner cheese with celery and home-made mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 76+ oz. 

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