5 june 2010

woke up at 5:10. karma came in the room at 5:15 so i decided to go ahead and take care of feeding her. she ate a lot for her.

breakfast

bologna, egg, and cheese sandwich
iced tea
yogurt
coffee

took the cat to the vet to check her blood glucose level. she was at 28 last time. she was at 86 this morning. we are to reduce her to 1 unit and take her back to the vet on friday.

recycling today. i've been meaning to go for nearly a week. it always happens this way.

lunch

denny's favorite sandwich
cookie
cheer wine

at wegman's. w was very busy. got to avoid going on saturday but we were out of almost everything.

snack

donut
iced tea

dinner

lasagna
green beans
iced tea

annie's frozen lasagna. really good.

dessert

donut (half)

we watched the first episode of Dr. Findlay. not so impressive so far. interesting that Dr. Findlay is a vet returning from WWII and the school teacher in To Serve Them is a vet returning from WWI. in All Creatures there is a period where James goes off to serve in WWII and is greatly changed when he returns.

in WWI, the UK had a population of 45.4 million people. Of that population they had 885,000 military deaths, another 1.6 million military wounded and 109,000 civilian deaths attributable to the war. Over 5.5% of the population was killed or wounded in the war. If you assume that men made up half the population (22.7). If you further assume that half the population is of service age and 90% of those killed and injured come from that cohort, you get an estimate of about 20% of the male, military aged population was killed or wounded in the war. The numbers for France are worse. Hard to contemplate the affect of such a loss an a nation.