Alligatorob's Diary
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Rollo the Ganger! So-called because he walked all the way down from the North to present-day France, refusing to burden a horse with his weighty frame - walked all the way, and founded a dynasty - what an inspiration for WLFfers!
(Love your history snippets, Rob.
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alligatorob
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Oh, oh, someone who knows more about history than I do.... not that it takes much. Now I have to be a bit more careful about accuracy!
It was a good day, ate well and I feel good.
Friday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal 200
grapes 95
lunch
spaghetti with tomato sauce 120
grapes 48
snack
1/3 slim jim 30
dinner
lettuce & tomatoes fresh from the garden 70
blue cheese 150
red beans 55
2 1/2 ounces of macaroni and cheese 115
lean hamburger patty 186
total calories 1,149
The second crusade was coming to an unsuccessful end in 1149, that year the Christians lost Antioch, gave up and the few survivors went home. The stage was set for the loss of Jerusalem to the Muslims a few years later. The whole crusade thing seems to me like a pointless waste of life and treasure.......
alligatorob
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Just noticed a calorie count error, the mac and cheese was left over on my spreadsheet from yesterday, so it should be subtracted. After seeing that I ate a few grapes, so the real count is probably a little lower than the 1,129, but not a whole lot. I need to be a bit more diligent.
Wow! I love the peacefulness of your house. I am sure it is a great place to live. Aside from the farmer living near you, how far away is your neighbors? We live in the suburbs, so I neighbors are very close.
alligatorob
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Pretty close, the picture I posted is a little deceptive, it is a view to the west towards the Great Salt Lake, just below us the elevation drops to un-inhabitable salt marsh and then across the lake all is salt flat or waterless desert. In any other direction houses are pretty close, a couple of hundred feet. The community I live in was all farming, mostly fruit, 20+ years ago but development is encroaching, lots of small cookie cutter subdivisions getting built on the old farm land. One just 200 hundred feet south of us. Our farmer works a lot of the little pieces of farm left, like our peaches, but doesn't live very close to us. The field next door that we pick and pay from is another small patch of remnant farm land belonging to a neighbor farmed by our farmer.
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alligatorob
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Another good day. I did a bunch of yard work and really wore myself out, it feels good. I am finding my weight loss is allowing me to do a bit more than I could before. Not a whole lot, but I can tell a difference.
Saturday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal 150
lunch tuna 80
pita bun 110
watermelon 40
plum 30
snack
beer 156
Two bites of a small pear that fell off our tree, it is our first pear. Not really ripe, but since it was on the ground we tried it. Don't think I'll count any calories for it. We have 2 2-year old pear trees, the have maybe a dozen pears between them. Next year we should get a real pear crop. I am not sure when to expect them to be ripe.
dinner - tuna melt sandwich
tuna 100
lettuce 10
cheddar cheese 170
bread 220
dill pickle slices 10
mandarin orange 46
total calories 1,202
In or about 1202 BC the Tale of Two Brothers was written. It's a pretty coherent story for something found on a 3,200 year old papyrus. Probably won't make a great movie, but interesting. I have pasted in it below, more or less in its entirety from Wikipedia. Sorry for the length, but it was kind of hard to summarize.
The story is about the brothers, Anpu, who is married, and the younger Bata. The brothers worked together, farming land and raising cattle. One day, Anpu's wife attempts to seduce Bata. When he strongly rejects her advances, the wife tells her husband that his brother attempted to seduce her and beat her when she refused. In response to this, Anpu attempts to kill Bata, who flees and prays to Re-Harakhti to save him. The god creates a crocodile-infested lake between the two brothers, across which Bata is finally able to appeal to his brother and share his side of the events. To emphasize his sincerity, Bata severs his genitalia and throws them into the water, where a catfish eats them.
Bata states that he is going to the Valley of Cedars, where he will place his heart on the top of the blossom of a cedar tree, so that if it is cut down Anpu will be able to find it and allow Bata to become alive again. Bata tells Anpu that if he is ever given a jar of beer that froths, he should know to seek out his brother. After hearing of his brother's plan, Anpu returns home and kills his wife. Meanwhile, Bata is establishing a life in the Valley of the Cedar, building a new home for himself. Bata comes upon the Ennead, or the principal Egyptian deities, who take pity on him. Khnum, the god frequently depicted in Egyptian mythology as having fashioned humans on a potters' wheel, creates a wife for Bata. Because of her divine creation, Bata's wife is sought after by the pharaoh. When the pharaoh succeeds in bringing her to live with him, she tells him to cut down the tree in which Bata has put his heart. They do so, and Bata dies.
Anpu then receives a frothy jar of beer and sets off to the Valley of the Cedar. He searches for his brother's heart for more than three years, finding it at the beginning of the fourth year. He follows Bata's instructions and puts the heart in a bowl of cold water. As predicted, Bata is resurrected.
Bata then takes the form of a bull and goes to see his wife and the pharaoh. His wife, aware of his presence as a bull, asks the pharaoh if she may eat its liver. The bull is then sacrificed, and two drops of Bata's blood fall, from which grow two Persea trees. Bata, now in the form of a tree, again addresses his wife, and she appeals to the pharaoh to cut down the Persea trees and use them to make furniture. As this is happening, a splinter ends up in the wife's mouth, impregnating her. She eventually gives birth to a son, whom the pharaoh ultimately makes crown prince. When the pharaoh dies, the crown prince (a resurrected Bata) becomes king, and he appoints his elder brother Anpu as crown prince. The story ends happily, with the brothers at peace with one another and in control of their country.
Recorded on a papyrus found some time before 1857. Author unknown.
Saturday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal 150
lunch tuna 80
pita bun 110
watermelon 40
plum 30
snack
beer 156
Two bites of a small pear that fell off our tree, it is our first pear. Not really ripe, but since it was on the ground we tried it. Don't think I'll count any calories for it. We have 2 2-year old pear trees, the have maybe a dozen pears between them. Next year we should get a real pear crop. I am not sure when to expect them to be ripe.
dinner - tuna melt sandwich
tuna 100
lettuce 10
cheddar cheese 170
bread 220
dill pickle slices 10
mandarin orange 46
total calories 1,202
In or about 1202 BC the Tale of Two Brothers was written. It's a pretty coherent story for something found on a 3,200 year old papyrus. Probably won't make a great movie, but interesting. I have pasted in it below, more or less in its entirety from Wikipedia. Sorry for the length, but it was kind of hard to summarize.
The story is about the brothers, Anpu, who is married, and the younger Bata. The brothers worked together, farming land and raising cattle. One day, Anpu's wife attempts to seduce Bata. When he strongly rejects her advances, the wife tells her husband that his brother attempted to seduce her and beat her when she refused. In response to this, Anpu attempts to kill Bata, who flees and prays to Re-Harakhti to save him. The god creates a crocodile-infested lake between the two brothers, across which Bata is finally able to appeal to his brother and share his side of the events. To emphasize his sincerity, Bata severs his genitalia and throws them into the water, where a catfish eats them.
Bata states that he is going to the Valley of Cedars, where he will place his heart on the top of the blossom of a cedar tree, so that if it is cut down Anpu will be able to find it and allow Bata to become alive again. Bata tells Anpu that if he is ever given a jar of beer that froths, he should know to seek out his brother. After hearing of his brother's plan, Anpu returns home and kills his wife. Meanwhile, Bata is establishing a life in the Valley of the Cedar, building a new home for himself. Bata comes upon the Ennead, or the principal Egyptian deities, who take pity on him. Khnum, the god frequently depicted in Egyptian mythology as having fashioned humans on a potters' wheel, creates a wife for Bata. Because of her divine creation, Bata's wife is sought after by the pharaoh. When the pharaoh succeeds in bringing her to live with him, she tells him to cut down the tree in which Bata has put his heart. They do so, and Bata dies.
Anpu then receives a frothy jar of beer and sets off to the Valley of the Cedar. He searches for his brother's heart for more than three years, finding it at the beginning of the fourth year. He follows Bata's instructions and puts the heart in a bowl of cold water. As predicted, Bata is resurrected.
Bata then takes the form of a bull and goes to see his wife and the pharaoh. His wife, aware of his presence as a bull, asks the pharaoh if she may eat its liver. The bull is then sacrificed, and two drops of Bata's blood fall, from which grow two Persea trees. Bata, now in the form of a tree, again addresses his wife, and she appeals to the pharaoh to cut down the Persea trees and use them to make furniture. As this is happening, a splinter ends up in the wife's mouth, impregnating her. She eventually gives birth to a son, whom the pharaoh ultimately makes crown prince. When the pharaoh dies, the crown prince (a resurrected Bata) becomes king, and he appoints his elder brother Anpu as crown prince. The story ends happily, with the brothers at peace with one another and in control of their country.
Recorded on a papyrus found some time before 1857. Author unknown.
Cate
Long term member
That is excellent. That really makes it feel worthwhile. I'm really happy for you, Rob
Food journaling...that's the only thing I can't seem to do. I try to eat more clean, but it doesn't usually happen. I just try eat in moderation. You're doing so well, Rob!
Great Salt Lake...are you in Utah?
alligatorob
Respected Member
Yep
alligatorob
Respected Member
It was another good day, ending with a whiskey, I have the calories for it, why not! The last of our company left today, the last 2 grandkids, our house seems quiet. We did the cleanup, my wife gets frustrated at the kids lack of cleaning up. I know she is right, but it all seems worthwhile to me.
Sunday
breakfast yogurt 80
cereal 150
2 plums 60
snack
2 cups cherry tomatoes, right off the vine 54
lunch - a big salad, no dressing red beans 55
tuna 80
lettuce, green peppers, carrots 60
green beans 51
blue cheese 70
dinner
spaghetti with tomato sauce 168
1/2 slim jim
45 popcorn 100
2 plums 60
whiskey 150
total calories 1,183
The crusades continued in 1183. The crusaders were still in control of Jerusalem, and briefly threatened Mecca when Reynald of of Châtillon captured Aquaba on the Red Sea. It seems to me that Reynald was a particularly brutal and not highly effective leader. Saladin the Muslin leader who would eventually capture Jerusalem from the Crusaders conquered Syria, having already taken Egypt, this consolidated his hold on the Arab world and help position him for his later victory at Jerusalem. Saladin really seems to have been a quite violent and evil man, but a more effective leader than Reynald or most other crusader leaders of the time. There seems to have been no Jimmy Carters or Abraham Lincolns back in those days.
Sunday
breakfast yogurt 80
cereal 150
2 plums 60
snack
2 cups cherry tomatoes, right off the vine 54
lunch - a big salad, no dressing red beans 55
tuna 80
lettuce, green peppers, carrots 60
green beans 51
blue cheese 70
dinner
spaghetti with tomato sauce 168
1/2 slim jim
45 popcorn 100
2 plums 60
whiskey 150
total calories 1,183
The crusades continued in 1183. The crusaders were still in control of Jerusalem, and briefly threatened Mecca when Reynald of of Châtillon captured Aquaba on the Red Sea. It seems to me that Reynald was a particularly brutal and not highly effective leader. Saladin the Muslin leader who would eventually capture Jerusalem from the Crusaders conquered Syria, having already taken Egypt, this consolidated his hold on the Arab world and help position him for his later victory at Jerusalem. Saladin really seems to have been a quite violent and evil man, but a more effective leader than Reynald or most other crusader leaders of the time. There seems to have been no Jimmy Carters or Abraham Lincolns back in those days.
I can't think of any leader anywhere who wasn't incredibly brutal by today's standards. Looking at history I often feel sad for the incredible waste of life and health. Not that we're anywhere close to being perfect these days but almost everyone these days is more civilized and kind than your average crusader.