Category: A Day in the Life
This subject covers things (often events) related to every-day life. They are not necessarily profound, but simply things that just happen.
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Hot Pepper
It turns out that birds are insensitive to the effects of hot peppers, or more specifically, the active ingredient capsaicin. You can feed them cayenne peppers or food coated in the stuff and they will not bat an eye. Mammals, on the other hand, are quite sensitive to capsaicin. It is this understanding that has…
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Biphasic Sleep
I have found myself drifting into a biphasic sleep pattern. This is a pattern that consists of two distinct sleep phases within a 24-hour period, in contrast with monophasic sleep, where sleep occurs in a single, consolidated block, usually at night. Historically, biphasic sleep was a common sleep pattern before the advent of modern artificial lighting.…
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Retirement Day
Today marks 10 years of retirement. My last day of service was January 9th, 2015. January 10th 2015 was my first day of retirement. I haven’t looked back.
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Vaseline
It has been just over a month since the re-election of Trump. Many believe his election will be good for the stock markets. This may be true as evidenced by the DOW’s some 3,000 point surge since his victory. I’d think of this as something that eases the pain of all the other effects.
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Thanksgiving 2024
With life experience I’ve come to be able to recognize and distinguish the things to be thankful for. The value and importance of all those little things, indiscernible in youth, that have become visible with time. Looking back, I don’t recall Thanksgiving as a significant celebration. It felt a notch above a regular Sunday dinner,…