Leftovers

Friday, Nov. 28, 2008 - 8:42 a.m.

I am seeing here where there's a Work Out marathon on Bravo today; I am avoiding it like the plague, because one of Jackie Warner's friends made fun of the figure of a breast cancer survivor, and Jackie chuckled right along with it without holding her friend to account for what she said.

I may be risking the wrath of a few of my readers by saying this, but there's never been an apology in any form that I have ever been able to discover, and this is the sort of stupid shit that conservatives looked at or heard about that made them vote yes on Proposition 8.

If you're gonna come yammer at me and accuse me of being anti-homosexual and/or pro Proposition 8? Save your breath. It's not about that. I DO have a problem with a network that has set aside the feelings of breast cancer survivors in the interest of broadcasting a show in which the recovery process is made fun of.

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I'm pretty certain I know the answer to the following question, but generally, that sentence prefaces most of the trouble I manage to get into, so here goes:

If you stick raw, unprocessed food into a dehydrator, and use it to dehydrate or otherwise change the characteristics of the raw food, does that raw food then go from unprocessed to processed, and therefore morphs into processed food and not raw food?

For instance, if you pick an apple right off of a tree and eat it then and there, that's fresh and raw.

But if you pick that apple and cut it up into rings and place the rings in a dehydrator so that the moisture levels are artificially altered, and the sugar levels are changed -- did that apple get processed?

Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

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Thanksgiving was quiet but nice. I still am having some problems with cutlery, but I can now keep the bandages off for longer periods of time, and I haven't had to put on the AV gel in a few hours or so.

I got through my fist night without bandaids.

We ate soft tacos for dinner, which are manageable for yours truly.

Even though none of the takeaways we order from were open, we had a lovely, fulfilling, sweet Thanksgiving.

And extra special thanks to John, for leaving a goatee and mustache intact when he shaved last night, and to Old Buddy Dave who made me feel useful as he drove to San Diego and back yesterday.

Extra brilliant kudos to whomever was responsible for the best broadcast event of the day, which occurred during The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: The 'Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends' float came by, stopped in front of the primary set of cameras, and the Imaginary Friends began singing "Best Friend" aka the theme song from The Courtship Of Eddie's Father... and all of a sudden, the music scratched to a stop -- and out of the float popped Rick Astley to sing a few lines of "Never Gonna Give You Up". Then he stepped to the side and let the other song finish.

I honestly thought I would have been tired of the Rickroll by now, but after yesterday? Nah. It's cool again.

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That's it. Have a great Friday, and if you're out in the thick of it, hope you find some great bargains!

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