Three weeks and counting, this damn “Walking Pneumonia” (at least that’s what my doctor calls it) has had me in its grip. Five days go by, I feel terrible. Then I start to feel better for a couple of days, and back it comes for another five days, at which point I once again to begin to feel better, and then …
Of course the resolution to the illness is easy: for it not to have happened in the first place (antibiotics, which I’ve avoided for three weeks, commenced yesterday, so that’s a partial solution for the moment). And how might I have achieved this “not have happened at all” state of grace? Regular exercise (walking five miles a day, since I like to power walk), and maintenance of my South Beach diet, from which I slipped just before Christmas, and have yet to resume.
No secret this: a healthy diet and regular exercise = good health. When will I ever learn my lesson?
Category Archives: VanRamblings
VanRamblings.com Awarded Top 10 Canadian Blog Designation
Jim Elve and the fine folks at BlogsCanada have, this day, awarded the upstart, and just barely out of its infancy, VanRamblings.com blog a “Top 10 Best Blogs in Canada” designation, for the month of March.
One feels the munificent hand of Jay Currie in these glad tidings.
Thanks Jay (and Jim, and fellow judge Brianna Doyle).
Meanwhile, Bob Tarantino at Let It Bleed (a weblog listed to the right, under Canada) is the latest weblog to add VanRamblings to his blogroll.
Digital Democracy: More and more blogs
Don, at Revolutionary Moderation, becomes only the second blog to add VanRamblings to a pre-existing blogroll. Thank you, Don (and we’ll be surfing to your blog regularly). Don’s weblog has been added, to the right.
Jay Currie writes to suggest that “Jim Elve’s Blogs Canada Election E-Group is now a must for serious political junkies of all leanings”. The E-Group Election blog has been added, to the right, under Weblogs / Canada.
Site maintenance, and New Radio Listings
Have this afternoon re-added the link to Jib Jab under Diversions (to your left), about which I wrote on February 12th (the item may be found by clicking on the Diversions link, under Topics, to the right).
Also, this afternoon, under the Radio heading, links to three wonderfully informative and virtually must-listen National Public Radio (NPR) shows have been added: All Things Considered, Terry Gross’ Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. In addition, another raft of radio links have been added.
In respect of All Things Considered, each day Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., hosts Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block present the programme’s trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Steve Inskeep hosts the weekend programme. As is the case with all three of the NPR links, the option of listening to the entire programme, or individual items in which you’re interested, is available.
Each weekday evening, on Fresh Air — NPR’s Peabody Award-winning magazine of contemporary arts and issues — the programme features in-depth interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.
Winner of broadcasting’s highest honour, the George Foster Peabody Award, for its outstanding contributions to American radio, Morning Edition offers a daily two-hour mix of news, analysis, interviews, commentaries, arts, features and music. Morning Edition is heard Monday through Friday on more than 600 NPR stations across the United States, and around the globe on NPR Worldwide … and is now available as a link on VanRamblings.