I arrived at Kiwanis this morning, and shock, dismay, I had totally forgotten I was picking up the donuts this month. I am concerned at my failing memory, but I think it was because last Thursday was the 4th July, and I just hadn't got my mindset into donut collecting responsibilities.
The speaker was one of our members, an Iranian called Fred, telling our 80 and 90 year olds how to live long and healthy lives (!) I have an inbuilt resistance to the Food Police, so my frame of mind anyway was in "nothing Fred is going to tell me will change my eating habits" mode.
However, he did manage to impinge on my consciousness with a little diagram of the Ph (power of hydrogen) levels in our body which control the activity of every metabolic function in our bodies (bear with me, dear readers, this isn't going to be a biochemistry lecture).
When a child is born its Ph is 7.3 - so that is the ideal to aim for. Acid is bad and alkaline is good.
1-7 is acidic (BAD) 7 is neutral 7-14 is alkaline (GOOD) because cancer will not grow in an alkaline environment
So........if we have coffee for breakfast (acid) burgers for lunch (acid) wash it down with colas (acid) and pizza for dinner (acid) that is BAD and this is a typically American diet.
So....bottom line is....if I pick up a steak from the Golden Corrall I will follow it with plenty of fresh grapefruit, which Fred introduced us to by passing round a box of freshly chopped grapefruit, which ended up with me - being at the end of the line - and which I munched on to the end of his talk. And generally we should eat lots of vegetables and fruit, which I do anyway.
I was up on the computer all night sorting my photographs for the power point presentation, but was relieved when I got to Kiwanis and found I was not on the list to do it next week, Louise has speakers booked until September. So I've got time to load Microsoft Power Point on to my laptop, and hopefully gets to grips with it.
Having been up all night I fell asleep almost as soon as I got home, and later in the afternoon called on Rosalyn who was going to scan and e-mail the disclaimer form for Mastercard. Then they kindly invited me out to supper, and we went to the new Italian restaurant in Shawnee, and it was very nice.
Today, Friday, I was doing errands round town, then watched the final stages of the murder trial, the jury of six women are now out. They must have all become great buddies over the last three weeks.
There is just no knowing at the moment what the verdict is going to be, but I think it is leaning towards an acquittal. It is a murder 2 case, but the judge is going to allow a verdict of manslaughter. There was also some discussion of it being a murder 3 conviction which has something to do with child abuse because the victim was 17, and they are not adults until they are 18 (unless a 12 year kills someone, then he is sentenced to prison for the rest of his life without parole, but I digress) Anyway, the defence counsel and the judge had a heated slanging match over that, counsel arguing that they will need a lot of time to prepare for that, but the judge is very conscious of the sequestered jury who haven't seen their families for three weeks, so it is murder 2, manslaughter or acquittal.
But he could get 20-30 years for manslaughter, it is not the 10 that it usually is in Britain.
The city where the trial is held is bracing itself for riots if the defendant is acquitted, so the Police Chief and District Attorney held a press conference when the jury left the courtroom, saying basically - in effect - don't even think about it.
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