Blogflog - images from the weekend

[blogfloggery.livejournal.com]

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Sasquatch enjoying the summer weather with me this lovely weekend.

Jon and I had a couples’ day out Saturday at Asymmetrical Solutions. We took their, Basics of Tactical Shooting. Eight hours in the Missouri heat was grueling, but worth it. We learned an amazing amount. The picture is my Springfield Range Officer getting it’s well deserved & needed cleaning.

We managed to eat healthy this weekend, even fixed our lunch ahead for the tactical class. Roast turkey and a salad of heirloom tomatoes, carrots, colored bell peppers, and fresh leaf lettuce.

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to know that this married couple had a "couple's day out". After all, with that giant 19 year old college child they have, it's not like they would ever get to spend any time together, and it's important to define any special activity together as couple activity, in case we got confused.

[apep727.livejournal.com]

And didn't she mention wanting to have a first draft done by Thanksgiving? I mean, yeah, everyone needs the occasional day to relax and recharge, but I'm noticing a distinct lack of anything regarding the progress of said first draft in her blog/facebook posts...

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

Okay, I don't follow any author's PROFFESIONAL blog or FB, so I'm starting to be unsure---is it common for them to post stuff like this? Because from the term "professional" I assumed it should just be things related to her writing, tours, etc., but I want to know for sure before I riff on her any further----is stuff like going to the range and pictures of her lunch the standard or not for a writer's professional blog? As in, are plenty of other authors, good and otherwise, doing it?

Because if so, eh.

If not?

WOMAN, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOUR FOOD PICTURES the dog sure is cute though

ETA:
We took their, Basics of Tactical Shooting

AUUUUGH

LEAVE THOSE COMMAS ALONE

[apep727.livejournal.com]

Eh, it depends. If they're blogging fairly regularly (like, every day or so), then non-writing/tour/whatever stuff is bound to happen. Granted, they tend to post about current events or geeky stuff rather than how they spent their weekend.

And yeah, she really needs to learn how to use a comma. It's one thing to under-use them, but LKH is the only person I've ever seen over-use commas.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yeah totally this. The writers I follow on social media are a mixed bag of *COMING UP FOR AIR FROM ALL THE WRITING* to "here's an awesome recipe, get it in your face!" to thoughts on various tv shows they're watching/books they're reading. At least you get a sense that this interests *them, this is what they're like outside of being THE AUTHOR, that it's worth talking about or sharing with other people.

I hardly ever get that sense from LKH's blogs; it's always about her pontificating from up on high. I know I saw a tweet about the shooting weekend being for 'research' [source (https://twitter.com/LKHamilton/status/490676908103708672)], so it's a pity she didn't mention that in the blog or one of the new things she learned in case it's useful for others.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

So... they had one meal all weekend? Also, that salad looks disgusting to me. Leaf lettuce = may as well eat wet paper towels; plus, no dressing; plus, turkey just sort of sitting there. And it's not difficult to eat healthy when you are a couple with endless free time, are able-bodied, and have plenty of money. Bragging about it is gauche.

[apep727.livejournal.com]

No, she's talking about the lunch for their "couple's day" thing.

Yes, that fact and the description of the meal should have been in the same sentence.

I'm starting to think that the only reason her books are even remotely readable is because of the copy editor. Her poor, over-worked, under-paid copy editor.

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

That's the problem I have with a lot of "eating healthy" talk, that it's so variable. That salad, for instance, would never work as lunch for me. I need more protein, and I need some carbohydrate; it's a simple fact of living with type one diabetes. That doesn't make my lunch any less (or more) healthy than LKH's, just better for my needs, which is something so much of this rhetoric misses out on. You can't just slap down a list of "healthy" meals and expect them to work for everyone.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

Yep. At the beginning of the year, I had some pretty terrible digestive problems, and the only stuff I could eat without triggering them was from McDonald's. And there's a calorie/cost ratio that people like LKH never take into account. Fruits and vegetables and lean meats just don't give the kind of caloric bang for the buck that foods we're supposed to look down on do. But then, "healthy" has been a code word for "pricey" and "unhealthy" has been code for "stuff that icky poors eat" for a very long time.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

" I need more protein, and I need some carbohydrate; it's a simple fact of living with type one diabetes."

Late to the party but, yes. I got T1 at age 48 and I've learned a whole different way of eating.

Also, colored peppers, as opposed to transparent ones? :D

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

The change really is something (that something being a pain the arse some days), isn't it? The low-carb craze was fun when it happened here, because people would constantly recommend it to me and I'd be all "look, I know I'm fat but I don't think killing myself by neglecting my diabetes is the way to go, somehow" XD Ditto the Atkin's diet. I have my doubts about that one in the first place, but considering ketosis is what happens when my diabetes is really out of control, I am not voluntarily taking on a diet that puts me into it, thanks.

Coloured like weretigers! SPECIAL COLOURED.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Right? People are always so full of great advice. No carbs? Awesome! You'll be the one to revive me when I go into a coma, right?

COLORED TIGER PEPPERS YES

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

I was curious as to what an "heirloom tomato" was because it sounded funny and I'd never heard of it, so I looked it up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_plant
http://www.tomatofest.com/what-is-heirloom-tomato.html

It's not a type of tomato at all (like say, granny smith apple and red delicious apple are types of apples), it's a tomato that was bred in a certain way because it has desirable characteristics. I don't see why she would mention how her tomato was bred/grown unless she was trying to make a point that EVEN HER TOMATOES ARE BETTER THAN YOURS because apparently they're getting more popular for some reason.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

they're hipster tomatoes!