Maybe I'll get another 6-day stretch of rides in.

I rode Sadie Friday and Saturday.   Short rides of 3 and 4.3 miles but we both got some fresh air.   Saturday I went to a morondezvous after riding.   Inside term.   It was the first non-horse related thing I've done just for myself in I don't know how long.   It was really great to put 'meat-space' names and faces to some fellow conservatives that congregate on the internet.    I learned the backstory for Pronothotary sp? Warbler.    I had even read Whittaker Chamber's Witness autobiography in college but my vague recollection is that Chamber focused more on his background of why he got sucked into the commie party and then left and didn't include much juicy stuff about the Alger Hiss case.   Rightly Southern very much matched his moniker.   

Working in a nest of bubbled and cocooned liberals as I do it was really very nice meeting up with fellow conservatives, especially smart ones.  If we could pull off a coup to get control of most of the media I think we could save this country from the death spiral into socialist shit-hole.   Perhaps with the rise of twitter and so on we (well they as I'm pretty luddite) will be able to show more young people what a bunch of fakers and Baghdad Bobs the MarxSpewMedia are. 

I signed up for a pyramid scheme 'vitamin/supplement' company with a friend.  Huge sigh,  I like this friend and I let my distaste for looking at you-tube videos keep me from doing my homework plus was lazy and didn't search on-line for independent info.    I will cancel with the company before my next autoship comes.   My initial impression when I heard the price total and then got my stuff which was one persons serving for a month with an extra product vs the two person basic level I thought I was getting was 'OMG severe price-gouging, this is mainly a pyramid scheme' and now taking the supplements and reading the ingredients I think the products are also snake-oil marketing terms slapped on some basic juice and vitamins.  E.g. one is supposed to hydrate cells "oxygenated water and proprietary mineral salt blend,  hmmm,  sounds suspiciously like a super weak hydrogen peroxide solution with a bit of trace mineral salt"  

    I'm trying to decide if the cleansing product is possibly pulling crap out of my system and making me feel temporarily bad but will be good for me down the road, or one of the products is kicking up my rhinitis, or just coincidentally I've eaten extra white flour the past few days and that is getting to me or just this time of year is aggravating my chronic rhinitis.  I guess I'll know if I feel better before I run out of the stuff or after I get through it.   Yeah, even though I think the products are pretty much snake oil marketing terms, I do think its possible the cleansing herbal mixture is clearing some gunk out of my body, just with stuff that I could have bought at Vitamin Cottage for 1/10 of the price.  

I am a bit stressed because I would have liked to help my friend out if this was something where there is a fairly decent product behind the marketing, like Discovery Toys, or Watkins or something but I'm not going to pay crazy money for this stuff and no way in hell would I try to con friends or relatives into paying that crazy money so that I'd rise a level in the pyramid and get the stuff cheaper.  My friend would never con folks, she has bought the con and believes the product is good stuff and maybe it has helped some of the folks taking it, especially if they had poor nutrition before, but I'm skeptical of stuff in general and pretty sure this is snake oil and a pyramid scheme; I hope my friend does not get burned when the pyramid collapses.