Post 2603
- 10 years and 40 days since I started this blog -
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| February 8, 2020, Cuenca, Ecuador |
Daily Comment
I'm not sure where to start this story. Maybe in 1961. I was eleven, and in September that year I started 7th grade at Wm. H. Carr Junior High School.
Everything was different than in 6th-grade - you had different classes with different teachers during the day! And they included vocational classes like typing and shop.
I had electric shop, Mr. Galland. Mr. Elliot Galland. Tonight, I saw him again (well, as he was about two years ago). He is a featured player in the documentary Three Identical Strangers.
I didn't care for Mr. Galland - he was a rough, tough, discipline-oriented man, and he had a reputation for getting physical with troublesome students, and regarding all students as troublesome.
The documentary I saw was the story of identical triplets separated and given to different adopted parents as part of an unethical psychology experiment in the fifties in New York.
Everything was different than in 6th-grade - you had different classes with different teachers during the day! And they included vocational classes like typing and shop.
I had electric shop, Mr. Galland. Mr. Elliot Galland. Tonight, I saw him again (well, as he was about two years ago). He is a featured player in the documentary Three Identical Strangers.
I didn't care for Mr. Galland - he was a rough, tough, discipline-oriented man, and he had a reputation for getting physical with troublesome students, and regarding all students as troublesome.
The documentary I saw was the story of identical triplets separated and given to different adopted parents as part of an unethical psychology experiment in the fifties in New York.
I heard the story a few years ago, when the film was released, from a friend who was a classmate at JHS 194 (Carr) and was tangentially involved in the production of the movie.
It's an amazing story, although not my story to tell here. I recommend the movie.
It was amazing to see and hear a 90+ year old Mr. Galland - he was completely unrecognizeable. But historical photos of him and his adopted triplet son brought it all back. the time he knocked me off a table, gave me a C-plus on a crystal radio I'd built because it had a kink in the hand-wound tuning coil. How much I feared him back then.
It's an amazing story, although not my story to tell here. I recommend the movie.
It was amazing to see and hear a 90+ year old Mr. Galland - he was completely unrecognizeable. But historical photos of him and his adopted triplet son brought it all back. the time he knocked me off a table, gave me a C-plus on a crystal radio I'd built because it had a kink in the hand-wound tuning coil. How much I feared him back then.
I'm grateful for the amazing history of my life that has led to the present.
Food and Diet 
Today's Weight: 201.0 lbs.
Previous Weight (2/8/21): 200.1 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: + 0.9 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
4:45pm:
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
11:30pm: Venison burger and a big salad (arugula, cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, shaved parmesan, walnuts, balsamic vinaigrette).
Liquid Intake
4:45pm:
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| LEGOM (lox, eggs, greens, onions and mushrooms). Not shown: Oatmeal-plus (oatmeal, hemp seeds, chia seeds, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cinnamon, stevia, kefir). Yes, identical to yesterday's breakfast. |
Skipped.
Dinner
11:30pm: Venison burger and a big salad (arugula, cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, shaved parmesan, walnuts, balsamic vinaigrette).
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 0; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 60+ oz.;
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