#1540, Thursday, November 12: Happy Veterans Day (+1)

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Post 1540, Day 316 of 2015
- 1,777 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Last night I got a call to help out a friend with an open mic. I got a lot of good playing time, including, for the first time ever, a bass and sitar duet on three songs.

There's an item I can cross off my bucket list.

Of course, I don't actually have a bucket list, nor do I believe in them. But every once in a while, something comes along that you know would be on your list if you did have one.

Anyway, that was just one of a few cool things (in fact, the one that closed out my Wednesday) I did on a no-work day.

I had the day off for Veteran's Day, and used it mostly to knock down my DVR backlog. Veteran's Day is a holiday that I am very ambivalent about.

On the one hand, I do honor veterans. In my heart and in my work, and, when I can, in my playing.

But I think the biggest honor one could do to veterans is to tell them they're the last veterans, we're not going to create any more. We ain't going to study war no more. We aren't going to fill our young men with the lie that corporate profits and elite power are worth fighting for.

Still, however many generations of human beings have ever lived, every one of them had warriors. It seems to be part of the human condition. Or the human tradition. Something.

In the late 1960s, I quit the antiwar movement over the treatment of returning soldiers. They participated out of idealism. True, they were misled into believing that what they were doing was honorable. That they risked their lives in what they thought (knew in their hearts) was the greater good, they should be honored for that. 

I know I believed that, as far as Viet Nam went, not serving was more patriotic, and righteous, then participating in the war effort. But I also know that those who volunteered, or were drafted, and ended up in comments should be honored for their bravery. These weren't the generals, or the powerful government and civilian big shots sending them off to die in defense of... what?

Their hearts were in the right placed, their heads had been washed clean of the information needed to make an informed choice about participation.

Happy Veteran's Day.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   205.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (11/10):          207.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    - 1.2 lbs.

Diet Comment

Yesterday should have been a bigger weight loss day, but I ended it with a big shot of Jameson's, so I'm happy with the loss.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch
At Core:

Chicken Cobb salad (shredded kale and romaine, grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, hard-cooked egg, broccoli, mushrooms and bleu cheese dressing). Not shown: a cup of beef-pork bone broth.

Dinner
Roast beef, cole slaw and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 2;  Coffee: 24 oz.;  Water: 84+ oz. 

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