The past two days I have been running around on my own and my new neighbour's behalf. Last night I finished the installation of her locking chain door guard and hung her mirror for her. We are getting along famously. Another great person into my life by "chance".

Everyone is fed in my zoo except for myself. But I'm not very hungry. I'll wait to eat until lunch because I'm about to take a bus ride downtown to pay my two (yes, two!) recent parking tickets. It's another drizzly day here in Canada's capital and I'm not driving today. (Time out for the hip -- the insulted one is my clutch foot's support system.)

Yesterday I went for my very first bone mineral density test. Sounds like there should be drills and pain involved. Made me think of the core samples geologists talk about. But no pain at all. A modern machine does some kind of magic while you lay very still on the table. Two different positions and a nice chat with the technologist and I was done. Easy as pie. We chatted about the inadvisability for young people to be ingesting dark cola drinks which are known to rob their bodies of calcium during the time in their lives the groundwork for a healthy skeletal foundation is being formed. And the hypocrasy of two different government "agencies".

On the one hand, the health folks are complaining that young people have unhealthy lifestyles that are leading to more health (read: medical expenses for the Universal Health Scare Plans) problems now and predictably in their futures.

And on the darkside, the schools are full of crap in vending machines and cafeteria fare that is made available during a time that these same young people are forming their eating habits (meaning away from their not necessarily well-rounded meals at home). The schools have virtually eliminated regular exercise from the daily curriculum when kids hit high school as well. No surprise then that the habits that carry into early adulthood are less than ideal and lead not to further well-being but to stressed out people with very poor coping habits.

This is the kind of crap I referred to in my comment to Mike's post today as well. (His post is from yesterday actually but it was Beltzner's comment that provoked my inflammatory statements. Inflammatory to some dyed in the wool Canadians at least.)