Too artistic to eat. I'd have mine varnished and keep it on the shelve forever as art.
Or at least until scary microbes started oozing out of it.
Speaking of which, may I pander my latest post, my 9 th of the day, which is a personal record.
Part of me wants to make it an even 10, and another part of me is saying "Seriously, HoundDog, have you lost your mind? It's 1:30 am no one is awake, and tomorrow is another day.
It looks like it is already tomorrow from the clock but Daily Kos runs on Pacific Coast time, so I still have 90 minutes I could set my lifetime record at 10 rather than 9 which is evoking a whole host of strange thoughts.
Well, I'm not going to be pushed around by these un-examined thoughts, I'm drawing a line in the sand!" As Plato said "The un-examined life is not worth living."
Now if I can just figure out, if this means I should defy expectations and just go to bed, because that's what I feel like doing, or if it means the opposite? That should say, "to hell with these "early warning signs," that it is time to go to bed, even though I'm so tired I can't even concentrate enough anymore to know which is more logical.
Like why should it matter? Why should 10 be considered better than 9? More complete! Is it just because we use a base 10 numbering system? Because we have 10 digits?
What if we grew up on a planet where most creatures had nine digits, 5 on one hand, and 4 on another? Or three on each of three hands?
Did anyone ever think of that?
Now I'm getting all upset about tall this projective ethnocentrism embedded in this whole notion that 10 is a better and more complete number than 9.
But, since I'm the only one in the "conversation" I'm in a pickle, because I think we have a rule saying one should not HR one's one comments, if one is arguing with one's self.
Which in and of itself is fairly "heavy handed" so to speak (for those of us with two hands, and not three.)
Alas, the fact that I am here by myself this late getting truly annoyed at my own ethnocentric based, Base 10 prejudices is probably one of the "early warning signs" that is time to go to bed.
Which is also sort of annoying. Who gets to make up these early warning signs, anyway. This is like fascism or something.
We carry around all these un-examined rules and Base 10 superiority preferences in our minds somehow, without even realizing it. We'll maybe you don't, but I do, well la ti da, for you.
Dang.
Well, I'm not going to be pushed around. Now if I can just figure out if this means I should ignore the early warning signs, and stay up and write a 10th post, or say screw these expectations that 10 is a more complete and even number than 9, and go to bed now?
*&^%o I hate it when this happens.
And. this all started about 3 or 4 weeks ago, when teacherken made an off-hand comment that he once wrote six posts in one day! So, I'd say he bears a lot of responsibility for this situation.
I thought, "well this will be a fun experiment, and since I'm on a doctored ordered diet to try compulsively writing like a beaver on speed, to avoid thinking about food, as my last chance to avoid that lap band surgery that Chris Christie did last year, it is timely as well. Christie has lost over 100 pounds. And, oddly enough we look a lot a like. I could easily pass as one of his brothers, and he looks a lot like one of my three brothers.
What will I do? What will I do?
........
An hour later ...
So, I decided to write this 10th post, or 11th if you count the one from late last night EST. Because for doing averages it is easier to divide by 10, not because I was "pushed around by unconscious assumptions and prejudices.
Now, though, it took me so long to line up the columns of numbers with the space bar, below, (why doesn't the tab key work in comments) I'm only 10 minutes away from slipping into April 18 which would really be to much and push me over the edge, where I may say something "silly I could regret later."
Good night fellow Kossacks.
PS I also just posted my 28,000 th comment just few ago, so I'm going to celebrate now and go to bed.
It's too late to try to explain. But for me today has been the writing equivalent of Jimi playing Voodoo Chile (a slight return.)