My Garden’s Hero

I’m working on my plan for gardening this year (quick! it’s almost spring!) and I ran across this beautiful garden. This garden is my garden’s hero.

Here are some garden plans based on it.

Galactic Questions

I just ran across this blog called The Galactic Question Center, which posts hypothetical / ethical dilemmas / questions. Some I find interesting:

• You can have the ability to speak and understand a hundred languages, on the condition that a person chosen at random dies one day earlier than he would ordinarily have died. Do you accept this “gift”?
• God says, “I will eliminate the emotion of your choice so that you will never experience this emotion again.” What emotion do you choose?
• Would you rather see a rabbit pulled out of a hat or a hat pulled out a rabbit?
• You are assigned to spend a year in service to others. To what region of the world would you go? Why? What is the most worthy humanitarian pursuit you can imagine?
• You have ten years left to live. You can finish out your days consecutively, if you choose, or be frozen in time and resurrected at will, for a year each time. How lengthy a gap would you choose between resurrections? If complete annihilation of the species and/or planet occurs during one of your hibernation periods, you’re done. How far in the future are you willing to plan your final year?
• What kinds of things do you want to learn before you die?
• You are about to write the greatest novel the world has ever read. What is the first sentence?

Reading

I recently finished World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a collection of interviews from after a zombie apocalypse. The first parts were good, getting into the details of what civilization was like, but as the book drudged on, it felt like a worn-out war story.

I love zombies, but this one really didn’t do it for me.

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Currently, when time permits, I am reading The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (various authors), which I actually bought my husband for his birthday a week ago. I <3 time travel.

Morning links

• 9 People Who Did It Anyway - a list of people who were worse off than you or me, but persevered and prevailed to accomplish great things, which reminds me of the below quote…
  

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
– H. Jackson Brown

• The Black Button: Would You Kill a Stranger for $10 Million if You Couldn’t Get Caught?
• Neat business card
• HOWTO knit a Wonder Woman sweater - if I ever learned how to knit, which I have a vague interest to do but not enough time / motivation to actually pursue, this is what I would make!

Chantix Day 3

So today begins my third dose of Chantix.  I had my first restless night - trouble falling asleep and continually waking up all night.  I’m not terribly tired today, but already someone at work said I looked tired.

So far the effects of Chantix on me are a bit like speed or caffeine.  I’m jittery and wired during the day and by afternoon, I crash and am very tired.  I took a short 10-minute nap yesterday afternoon, and when I woke up I was wired again.  Probably didn’t fall asleep til 11 or 12 (my preferred normal bedtime is shortly after 9!).

I’m also taking a vitamin along side the Chantix, since I have to remember to take something anyway.