Score one for the freaky hippies

What is usually the worst part of my allergy season has passed without me having to use a single loratadin tablet! Sure there were a few sniffles and sneezes along the way but nothing too severe and no itchy burning eyes at all. This is especially impressive since I have started wearing contact lenses occasionally again this year.

I credit the delicious raw honey I've been eating and drinking all winter, courtesy of my hard working girls. The freaky hippies claim that the pollen and such in the raw honey retrains your body to remove the negative associations with that pollen that create the allergies. It makes as much sense to me as the idea that you develop allergies as you get older as your body's defences learn to associate actual airborne toxins with specific pollens. This is the explanation I was offered for why I was allergy free as a kid but have allergies as an adult.

I've even gone to so far as to push the envelope by eating mucus forming blocks of delicious cheese. Still no clogged sinuses. Allergy round two comes in August so lets keep our fingers crossed.

Sunday afternoon

I went out onto the mean streets of Mississauga today to get re-acquainted with an old friend. With her usual grace and brilliance Smoove treated me to a wonderful afternoon. The nice weather helped.

This was also part of my tune up program for commuting by bike this summer. The combination of girth, gas prices and the Accuweather App on the iPhone have me planning to bike in all but the worst weather for the summer. Gotta be in suit shape by August at the latest and I'm losing the juicer this week :(

I'm pretty sure that the commute will not be as pleasant as my ride today but its still go to be better than the traffic I've been sitting in lately. Which reminds me, I have to dig up my good backpack.

Science Fiction

When you say science fiction many, perhaps most, people think of lasers and space aliens and not much else. But good science fiction is so much more, and less. I just watched an excellent science fiction movie with neither lasers nor space aliens - Moon.

It was brought to my attention by the ECJ who also told me that he couldn't tell me what happens just that it was worth watching. I agree, so I'm not going to tell you about the movie just that is very good. What makes it good is that it makes you think – as a bonus its well done from a technical standpoint as well.

It's a shame really that we can't have two different names for the different types of science fiction. Its unfortunate that movies like Independence Day and Moon are lumped together as science fiction when aside from the setting one is an action movie and the other a... not an action movie. But I guess you could say the same thing for other genres like war movies and westerns to name a few some are mindless fun and some have something to say. I think there is a place for both I just want an easy (lazy) way to differentiate.