April 28, 2008

• How Sweet is That?

  I'll have some new bird pictures for you later today or tomorrow.  It was Grand Birdy Central in my yard on Saturday - swarms of goldfinch - and yesterday we hiked in Mason Neck State Park and got a few shots of new feathered friends.

  Also, I want to correct something I said last week... this book I'm reading, Escape by Carolyn Jessop.... Last week, I said that it a different branch of the same sect that was raided a few weeks ago in Texas.  I was wrong about that.  It's the same group with the same leaders.  The author's ex-husband, Merril Jessop, in fact, was leader of the group during the raid.  I thought it had to be a different group because in the book they're located in Colorado City, AZ.  I don't know yet how the group re-located to Texas, but it's the same group right down to the prohibition against the color red.

  Finally, I want to point out something I just this morning discovered.  Urea, as you may know, is a component of urine.  Some of the atoms contained in the urea molecule are aspartic acid, an amino acid.  Aspartic acid is also a main ingrediant of aspartame. 

  Now, I've never liked aspartame.  It doesn't taste good and even one swig of a drink 'sweetened' with it gives me an awful headache that lasts for hours.  It's nasty awful stuff.  And that connection to urine sure doesn't endear it to me, either.

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