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[ewt]

fish oil is good for your brain, yes.

I put the dress up on eBay. Looking around it looks like most people are asking a lot less, but most of them also have far fewer photos. So here's hoping. If it doesn't sell, I can always re-list it.

And I put pictures up on the corset.

I have several boxes of pink semi-permanent hair colour that I bought from a pound shop but don't really like. Not sure if I can be bothered eBaying them, because by the time I've paid postage and PayPal fees I won't get much.

I want a one of these but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. And I'll always be able to buy more shiny for my money later rather than sooner. And really since the PDA is sorted now the next computery stuff I buy really ought to be, um, a computer. Still tempted by the latest Mac laptops.

Did laundry and some gardening; had gazpacho for lunch. Need to do some more laundry now, and hem my Aikido trousers, do the washing up, and tidy up. claire_wain is very kindly loaning me a horn mute, so the panic about that is off for the time being. It rained a little again, not nearly enough. I'm going to have to leave watering instructions for mstevens if I want any of my plants to be alive when I get back.

I really, really want to do some non-mending sewing before I go away, but I have no idea when I'll have a chance to do it. Grah. I want to make pretty, comfortable summer dresses. Instead I'll be hemming two pairs of trousers and patching a sarong (the pruple and black spider one that the mouse ate a hole in when I was using it as a tablecloth in Islington and put a chocolate cake underneath a stainless steel soup pan and the daft mouse tried to burrow under to get at the cake. I make good cake, okay?). Oh and patching these shorts which I discovered today have a hole in them, not sure if I snagged them on something or what but the hole needs to be fixed.

Forgot to drop off my repeat prescription request this morning, and on Thursday afternoons hte practice is shut, and I can't remember if they open Saturday mornings. Arse. I'm leaving on Saturday. I need more citalopram to take with me. Arse thorns. Arse thorns with little barbs what have concentrated ricin in them. I guess I go tomorrow, hope that I get Good Cop receptionist (as opposed to Bad Cop receptionist, who will go out of her way to be as unhelpful as possible), and see what the most logical thing to do is. Possibly they can phone the prescription through to a chemist in Somerset or something like that.

I am out of cocoa powder. This is annoying rather than disastrous.

I am looking forward to getting out of London. I am looking forward to spending a week with hairyears, but not much looking forward to not seeing pfy for two weeks straight. And I won't see my housemate until I get back either and he's been on holiday since last Friday so I won't have seen him for three weeks. Weird.

Off I go to do all domestic-like things.

Comments

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Horn mute is now on its way, the postage cost £4.50. I'll happily swap that for an equivalent amount of pink hair dye, if you like?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

YAY for horn mute! I am saved!

Could do.

One of the reasons I'm getting rid of the pink hair dye is that it wasn't really bright enough for my tastes, though...

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

YAY!

I am going through a bit of a baby pink phase at the moment, so that's cool with me. Think about it after you get back, anyway. You've got plenty more important stuff to be thinking about just now! :)

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Cool. I may as well send you the lot.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Rumour has it that you won't be able to get LifeDrives in Europe much longer as they don't conform to some new EU rules on hazardous substances.

http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12314

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Interesting, but not a terribly informative article; which rules are violated? Which component causes the difficulty? I know batteries are often a culprit.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

That article is, I'm afraid, all that I know. Sorry!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Fish oil article abstract looks interesting! My institution doesn't have full-text access to the journal, worse luck.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I've read a few different things over the years that talk about fish oil and why it is good for the brain, and I've been convinced enough that I do actually take the stuff regularly.

I know longer speak enough biochem to be able to explain it properly, but it boils down to something along the lines of, "the brain is basically made of fat, different types of fat behave differently, we may have evolved to eat foo type of fat, now we mostly eat bar type of fat, but bar type of fat is sub-optimal for brain performance compared to foo type of fat because of the shape of it if you were to make it out of Tinkertoys." Which is a bit simplistic, because it isn't as if anything the brain is made of doesn't have to be digested into ickle bits by the stomach and absorbed through the intestines before it can become bits of brain.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I know longer speak enough biochem

Or enough English, apparently.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Fish oil may well be good for the brain, but it's bad news for the world fish stocks.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. Although pretty much the best oily fish around is mackerel, which also happens to be one of the more sustainably fished species, at least according to the Seafood Choices Alliance (http://www.seafoodchoices.org/smartchoices/species_mackerel.php).

I suspect that fish oil sold as supplements is generally a by-product of the fishing industry - when oily fish are skinned and filleted for sale or processing, there are a lot of bits left over, and using those for oil could arguably be more environmentally sound than going out and buying tins of fish to eat, if there isn't a "catch your own damned fish and used the whole thing" option available.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

In addition it's well worth looking into whether flax oil, which has plant-based precursors to the DHA and EPA that are found in fish oil, is useful.

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I looked at your auctions, but the pictures were taking -so- long to load. You might want to fiddle with the size on them because if I was looking on them to bid, I'd probably run out of patience and move onto the next one...

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

They're fine on Broadband but if you're on dial-up I can see they'd take a while.

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I have broadband. I thought maybe it was just ebay loading slowly for me, but I'd looked at other auctions and the pictures were popping up really fast. *shrugs*

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

That's odd, they're mostly under 200K (except one or two of the dress ones).

I tend to figure that anyone who is looking to spend as much money as I'd really like to get for these things is probably going to wait for the pictures to load, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

They're not that big, they just seem to be hosted on a server with very slim bandwidth.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

No sign of watering instructions...