The Master Cleanse: Day 0

So the thing about blogging is that when you stop for a bit, you stop for a bit longer. And then a bit longer and on. Well, that’s what happens to me anyway. Take Rach, for example. I owed her a letter probably 6 months ago. And then I’m thinking of what to write, and more and more, then I wait, because there’s more to be thought of, and then I realise it’s getting later and later, and so I get more and more sheepish. And 1 week becomes 6 months. So, I’ll be catching up on my letter writing this weekend, because there’s so much to tell.

Meanwhile, we’re back from Thanksgiving vacation. At work, we’re wrapping up the final bits of the new Dev Zone (not yet published, but at least the docs have been opened for a couple of weeks). We’ll be ready to unveil it soon enough. I also put in the new xterm release into portage this evening. So those of you on stable profiles waiting for xterm-222, your architecture team should be putting that in for you soon.

I wasn’t going to do another Master Cleanse till the new year, but a few things have happened. We’d started running, if you remember. And we took our gear to vacation with us. Before we left we ran the first 2 days of Week 4 here. Kinda. The first day we couldn’t do the last five-minute block at all. The second day, we did 4 and a half minutes of it. The third day was in LA. The park there is on a bit of an incline (a slight one, admittedly, but you can feel it). So we were struggling again, and couldn’t do the last five-minute block again. Then we got to Oklahoma, and the first morning there, I felt the beginnings of a cold. My glands swelled and my throat closed up painfully. That did us in. I couldn’t run like that, because swallowing was painful. That lasted till yesterday more or less (ie, our first day back in Boston). I even missed my first day back at work, due to fever and throat-achiness.

Today, I’m much much better, and because of all the food and stuff that was consumed during the holiday, we decided to go on a 10-day Master Cleanse. This time, Aimee is doing it with me. And also, my sister and her fiance (both in Rochacha) are doing the Master Cleanse right now!

So anyway, we had a dinner tonight (order-in Chinese), and it’s a few minutes to bedtime, so we’re drinking senna tea. Tomorrow morning: the first flush. Aimee’s nervous. I’m ambivalent (about the flush). We have a truckload of lemons, a boatload of maple syrup, a tonne of cayenne and we’ll need to refill on water tomorrow afternoon.

I’ll keep the blog updated with the progress on both of us.