The H1N1 Influenza Song

So the CDC says that to beat the flu this year we need to wash our hands well.
specifically with soap and hot water, and long enough to kill the germs.. which happens to be how long it takes to sing two verses of Happy Birthday..

Happy Birthday for the flu? that will never work:

So here are some new words that I made up..
progressively more macabre, to catch the imagination of different age groups.

2 verses is all it takes.

If you wash your hands well
Flu germs on you won't dwell
Water hot and suds thick,
so I don't get sick

If you skip past verse two
swine flu may invade you
So scrub well to the end
to guard you and your friend.

---
Flu germs on me do land
If I don't wash my hand
they will move to my head
and send me to my bed

Germs always land on me
they are hard to see
If time I try to save
they send me to my grave

--
If we don't wash our hands
to get rid of the flu
we will pass it around
and give it to you

--
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Lazy weekend - busy Morning

Exercise: walked with Hee Cheoul our normal 45min loop in the neighborhood of QCOM office, yesterday.

This morning, a little yard work before the rain started.. Mowed the lawn.
Which day to ride to work this week? looks like the new bike trail is finally open, which it wasn't yesterday AM even.

The commandline podcast

Yesterday I managed about an hour and half walk, while listening to a couple of podcasts,
one of them was the stackoverflow podcast #38.
today it was more like 45 minutes while listening to the thecommandline podcast recording of the copywrite panel at farpoint.

Now to reset my sleeping hours and get my body back on California time rather than Hawaii time.

Walked to subway

It was nice out tuesday, There and back in 40 min, incl 10 min in line for the $5 footlong..

observations on attention training

I've been watching and reading up on meditation a bit recently,
especially thanks to google techtalks speakers Philipe Golden, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Robina Courtin
and as a result experimenting with this a little bit.
In this day and age where so many have attention deficit disorder, like its not a muscle that can be trained, while many have been training it for centuries..

Oh, I'm no expert.. but I guess when one starts an exercise program, one starts to experience new pains and powers.

Apparently there are two types of meditation, practice where you work on focusing your attention..(maybe more a process of remembering, and returning focus to the object of attention) .. and exploration, where one observes and gains insight. Given the mystical nature attributed to dreams it makes sense that this state might naturally occur on awakening from sleep.
and this is what I had a little experience with this morning.. but my (as yet) poorly trained mind harvests only small insight so far.

I probably have it all wrong at this point..
more later.

biking to work every other week

its not enough.. but its better than driving to work EVERY day.
today's ride was only 11.65 miles rather than the usual 11.75 - correlated to pumping up the tires this morning?
-- I like riding most of the way while the fog still blocks the sun, but arriving to work after the sun is out.. today most of the fog had burned off by the time I actually left the house. No one in the house is waking up early now that school is out.
Thinking about doing an MS150 ride with coworkers this fall.
jbd

Since Twitter is down..

As I get ready to go to a team building event this afternoon..
Last week I rode my bike 48 miles..
this week 0.. but I got in a walk around the perk ponds twice, and around great mall yesterday.
Not much.
jbd