Daily Archives: March 3, 2014

Health, Latin, Translating Metamorphoses

Body and Mind

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Imbolc                                                             Hare Moon

The latin today was a brainbuster.  At least for me.  In the first sentence there was a passive periphrastic with its dative of agent and gerundive plus an imperfect subjunctive. Now if you think that sounds confusing, well, it was to me.  Not sure I got it either.  Two steps ahead, a step or two back into Wheelock to check the grammar, seeking help from the commentaries.

(how I felt after the Latin)

Workout today though was good.  I’ve switched it up a bit, doing high intensity intervals (4 of one minute to one and a half minutes) combined with sections of the P90X workout.  The P90X is the resistance work, the intervals the aerobics.  Seems to be a good fit.

Maybe not what Tony Horton intended, but it’s gonna work for me.  That means two lower intensity days on the treadmill between the three interval workouts.

Friends, Woolly Mammoths

We Three Skeptics

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Imbolc                                                          Hare Moon

So, three Woolly’s walked into a bar.  The punch line is:  who is I?

Met for lunch with Bill Schmidt and Tom Crane today in Maple Grove, Biaggi’s.  I know about the three kings, the three wise guys and I’d title this group the three skeptical guys. We share a common suspicion of easy answers, traditional thought when it constricts the mind and the existence of only one I within.

Tom made an interesting observation about the I, “Maybe it’s more like a cloud with a floating data point, or like wave/photon theory of light.”  Makes sense to me.

We ate, then Tom, the still employed of the three of us, had to leave for a conference call. Ah, the workaday world.  I don’t miss it.