Out of a bit of interest on saturday I looked at Argos’s website, they have the ability to reserve items from the local argos shops and I found one in Bradford Forester Square. It’s a good game and I got a nice little sweat going when I played it tonight.
I also picked up a female guppy and another platy, but when I got to the train station and they said that all trains were cancelled, so I had to catch a bus.
I’m down at my parents this weekend for my birthday (28th June), and they went to Tesco. Whilst there I was looking at the meat on the shelves and realised to myself that I don’t consider it food, it just looks like a greyish blob not something that makes me want to eat it, whereas a bell pepper, tomato or cucumber does look like food to me. So it looks like i’m staying veggie for a while longer.
I still have the problem of getting my diet back under control, I seem to have lost control of it all together, not sure which approach to take. One thing I should really do is increase my exercise, I wish I had WiiFit to encourage/annoy me. Trying to find a copy is exercise in itself.
Maybe the answer to dieting is not trying to diet but changing my perceptions about food as a whole. I don’t really enjoy snack food but I still eat it, why?
After 10 years of being a vegetarian, I do sometimes crave a touch of meat, I wish I didn’t. I occasionally think “I want a bacon sandwich” or spare ribs. So I’m trying to work out what I really want to do and where I stand on the reasons for vegetarianism. During my second year of uni I did become semi-vegan for a while, it lasted about a month or two before I got bored of being without cheese.
There are two sources of my vegetarianism. The first was a chicken carcus in the microwave at my mothers, I was trying to microwave something and I couldn’t take the carcus out of the microwave. The second was in France at my uncles, it was a barbeque down at a local pool and the beef was served with the blood still uncolagulated. After that I was proper vegetarian.
Pinching the list from wikipedia and ranked in order of my importance.
Ethics – I do think eating meat is murder, but then I also feel that having leather is murder and drinking isinglass in wine is also causing murder, but I do both of these things. One could also say that rigging cows up to milking machines is kind of torture, is torture or death worse? I kill things all the time.
Environmental - I do take the point that there is little point growing 10 tons of wheat to produce 1 ton of bovine meat. However one slight issue I do have about the whole environmental aspect is that it assumes that people eat meat for every meal, something I really couldn’t do. Does eating meat once a month make that much of an environmental impact?
Health – I eat to much generally, maybe the only thing stopping my health being worse is that I don’t eat meat. There is also the inverted possibility that because I’m not entirely satisfied at the moment by being a veggie I’m eating more to comfort eat.
Psychological – I do have a reversion to dead flesh
Cultural – There is a kind of force of habit, I have never cooked meat (except for maybe a few times as a kid), given a slab of beef I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Labour Conditions – My problem with the labour conditions argument (that paying people to work in unsafe places), is similar to sanctions, it tends to hurt the wrong people. Wouldn’t encouraging better meat (such as organic meat) be preferable to protesting it.
Religion – I’m an atheist, so religion doesn’t come into it.
At the moment, i’m unsure, if given a bacon sandwich would I eat it, I don’t know.
Lestival was good, could have done with another 100 attendies.
My two slight gripes (and nothing to do with the organisers), a) I hurt my back playing 3 ball gladiators (I fell over people backwards), b) Missing the bus back to leicester and having to walk from Enderby to Narbourough Road, c) Beard having a weak selection of cigar boxes, I’m tempted to make my own.
When I got home on Sunday my garage door had blown open, not sure when but interesting my bike wasn’t stolen. I unfortunatly found out on Monday morning that I have put on 3kg since i’ve moved up to Leeds, probably the lack of 30 minute walks and easy availability of junk food at work, time to go calorie counting again. Have a Dentist appointment tomorrow which should be fun.
I ordered Culinary Artistry from Amazon last week, arrived on Sunday, the book looks decent and contains flavour matches and bad-matches, seems good what I’ve read so far, but one slight grip is the binding not being even. When I’ve finished it I might actually post a review.
One of the more interesting things i’ve seen in a while is this, using an old collection of printers, scanners and hard drives and replicating a tune by radiohead.
I was watching a andrew marrs history of britain on myth and there was a considerable amount of stutter, i switched from VIA XvMC to ffmpeg and it disappeared, wierd.
The new iPhone 2.0 looks interesting, especially for the reduced price or 100 quid. It’s a shame it doesn’t have satnav built in, but I expect someone will create an app for that pretty quickly.
Over the years i’ve been thinking on and off about buying a folding bike, it’d be pretty useful right now that I don’t have a car, allow me to get around Leeds and the local area far easier than currently possible. I don’t know really, they are pretty pricey (around 500).
I do feel kind of bad about planning to buy a car, I can after all live without one, but it’s the long journeys that make me want one. I’m fed up of the long distance trains which are truely expensive.
On a side note a few months ago I applied to Google as well as many other companies (Apple etc), today I got an email back from Google asking me for some more information, shame they missed the boat.
Yesterday I went to Sheffield for my Uncles 40th Wedding Anniversary, had a good time, but the trip getting back was horrendous.
I left Sheffield at 5.50ish, got into leeds at 7.15 and then was made to sit around on the platform for an hour to get the 8.05 and finally got home at 8.35. So a journey which should take 1 hour 17 minutes (According to google via car) took 2 hours 40 minutes
over double the time. This to be honest is my problem with trains, the downtime you have waiting for your next train.
Also if you take into account fuel costs assuming 40 mpg (which is pretty poor), it’d cost 14.80 in fuel, the train ticket cost 15 quid (I know this excludes the cost of insuring the car, the car and the speeding tickets), if you have more than one person then it will be far cheaper using the car. There is really no incentive to use public transport.
I wish I didn’t have to buy a car, but wasted so many hours and so much cash waiting in stations is not the best use of my time.
One thing that kept me amused on the train was this drunk scottish navy guy who had drunk 14 cans of beer and was talking about all sorts of junk.
Recently I’ve found that I no longer have the taste for new books (especially nothing in the field of SciFi), and I’ve gone back to the books already in my collection such as Terry Pratchett as well as the Harry Potter series. Whilst I know the stories inside and out I somehow find them comforting. Maybe with all the changes in my life at present it feels reassuring to have a constant that doesn’t change.
I accidently stayed up till 2am last night and watched Hillary Clinton not-condolence speech, I’m glad the primary season is over, it lasts a little too long and encourages in party fighting. It’ll be interesting to see Obama’s choice of VP. I also made a slight mistake on my myth tv box and ended up with 14 hours of BBC News recorded.
I really need to get my sleep cycles sorted out again.
The myth box is going well now that i added another audio card, it’d had already eaten 80GB of disk space and still recording more than I can watch (for a rainy day), it also means that I’m going to stop my Amazon DVD rental thing, as I haven’t really been using my 2 dvds a month with everything that’s been going on.
Work is going fine, it’s fun diving into the lower levels of the linux kernel.
Hopefully I’m going to try to go to Hullabaloo Community Circus tommorow night, it might be a bit of a pain getting to leeds and back.
I’m also thinking of going to play festival in July, not sure yet…
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