Diet Blog: Day One Hundred Something-something. I’ve reached a plateau. A few weeks ago I made it to 205. I went on vacation and ballooned up as high as 206½. I’m back down to 205, but I can’t get any lower. This is a mental plateau more than a physical one, since, as I said before, the diet is feeling so monotonous it’s getting hard to stop the snacking.• I know most cars have CD players now, but a lot still have cassette decks — so why is it so difficult to find a head-cleaning tape?
• Headline: Michael Moore’s film Farenheit 911 wins the Palme D’Or at Cannes. US lawmakers uncertain whether to boycot the word “palm” or “door”.
• I came to the painful realization today that in a hot dog eating contest my limit would be a paltry four. I had four today while at my niece’s graduation party and then had to spend some of the afternoon sitting in a quiet corner and sighing. This would be quite a humiliation for my stomach, Ed, if it weren’t his fault to begin with.
• Speaking of Heather’s graduation party, my Aunt Grace illustrates, below, the perils of eating a maize and blue frosted cake…
My Aunt Grace is Bluetooth enabled
