deciphering

Thursday: Up, Gus, Shower. MB working at home. Some coffee and cereal for breakfast. Down basement, morning practices, drums. Packed acoustic guitar and stuff in car and headed out.

Beautiful day. Stopped at the PO (almost empty) and commented it must be a good time of day to go there. Returned a CD which didn't play for me.

In at the office, continued deciphering some particularly knotty code (not bad really, but cryptic). Made some progress on that front. Lunch at my desk. Conversations with B, light-hearted in quality, which is good given I just sent him a fairly critical email last night.

At 7:30 met Shawn. Arlington, and ran through most of our material. Felt sloppy tonight. EotN. Shawn's getting somewhere, but its taking time. We had a break, walked around, got some beverages and continued our walk. Lovely night. Cellphone message saying there was a problem with something about the DVD, or the art. Heard someone screaming at someone else from a second floor room in a large white house. A little more work, making it through the piece, almost. Gave Shawn a ride home.

Back home, and burned a disc for MB containing sound files she's recorded. Ate some noodles watching "The Wire." MB called from the road after an interesting evening at the Athenian Corner. She has a new book idea that sounds really promising. She arrived back around 12:30. Some hanging out. Gus' nose is bleeding a bit again. We watched some Dave Chappelle clips on youtube. Wickedly funny dude.

In health studies, I wonder how they factor out psychological factors. For example, if a study shows that "vitamins are correlated with an increased risk of cancer" how do they know if its not just that people who feel the need to take vitamins are more are more generally "worried?" Perhaps its actually the persistent mental state that is causing the negative impact on their health, and not the actual substance.