Remembering PRESTAGS

dinner

usual big wok of stir fried vegetables with some honey and peanut butter. plus stir fried chicken from previous night - garlic, ginger, little chilli, pepper & soy sauce.

Very unconventional carbohydrate though - boiled potato.

Lockdown Bakery Delivery

Bakery delivery arrived early.

In time to make ham and cheese croissants for breakfast.

(Slightly) Healthier Weekend Breakfast

Poached egg and fried egg, on rye bread.

Placed near green things to absorb 'greenness".

 

Beasties and dinner

another random macro adventure this afternoon.

This funny little fellow - some sort of weevil apparently. About 4-5mm long.

cropped

Jumper (Crop)

another

Thygo's slap bang sitr-fry satay

Long Weekend Breakfast

Double smoked duck breast

I have a lovely double smoked duck breast yesterday for lunch. I ascribe my sexual prowess to eating duck - and can't get enough of either. I also note that since focussing on duck, I am typically doing 6 turns a night. Get-it-in-ta-ya!

Saturday Lunch

Tiger roll, with wholegrain mustard instead of butter, beef, coleslaw and gherkins.

Prawn cocktail salad, with home made Thousand Island dressing.

Food

Thygo's 'chicken curry with the works'

closer view:

Anticipation of endorphins - Steam status

Just one more turn. Game or addiction?

So, Thygo is sitting here, checking his email, and checking it again, and again, and again.

"There are no new emails"

Now he's checking Steam to see if Python is online ...  'Offline for 12 hours'

Yes, Thygo is addicted to the internet, and PBEM games in particular.

And this is obviously not a unique situation judging by the number of images that came up on a search for 'just one more turn'.

Dawn Light

My 5.45 am walks are going well. It's almost completely dark when I leave, and then the sun slowly rises as I walk. The sun rises in the north east, and I'm walking south west along the Bay, so I don't get much of the vivid red streaks of dawn.

The only signs of life are the odd person like me (usually oldies walking dogs) and lots of birds. The most common bird types are Sea Gulls, Bar Tailed Godwits and Ibises. Cockatoos and magpies are reasonably frequent, with the odd Kookaburra and Crow. Every now and then I see one of my favourite birds - a Pelican.

Towards the end of my walk, usually 45 minutes to one hour, the sun has risen enough that there is a tiny splash of pink in the south western sky. It's nice when this is reflected in the water. My nikon managed to capture the reflection but there wasn't much colour to work with.

 

Ad hoc curry

So thygo did a big stir fry on Sunday. Throwing in garlic, ginger, chilli (all out of a bottle), a range of vegies, chicken, sesame seeds, honey, peanut butter, soy sauce, curry powder.

Tasted pretty good I have to say.

BBQ at Sir Galahad's

A handful of pics from Thygo's BBQ meal for Paul. With Thygo's $20 Gumtree special pocket camera (Samsung ES73). 

Nice CCD colours and a steady hand from Paul.

Nikon Transfer 2 program doesn't seem to like the files but I can open them and edit in Nikon View NX2.

Thygo likes Gumtree - it allows his inner hunter-gatherer to express itself at a bargain basement price.

The BBQ (device) was a Freebie off Gumtree too ...

I think Paul could live without eating kangaroo again ... But I think he approved of the beef and lamb.

I approved of the Blue Sapphire Gin :-)

Lamb chops and steak.

Kangaroo sausages (kanga bangas) and Kangaroo burgers

the beginning of the process ...

 

getting close to ready

 

close up of the yummy meat

 

He thought he was Jane Fonda!

Pathetic! Then again, a bit more interesting than the generals in EDEE.

Bachelor food

Kangaroo burgers, pasta with fried onion and garlic + parmesan cheese and pepper, fried cabbage and soy sauce, steamed brocolli and carrot.

Plus laptop. What else do you need?

Happy Birthday Paul!

We wish you a great day today! We look forward to the food blog of what you had to eat.

Why am I angry? - Is Toxoplasma gondii - things to me?

So there is an article in today's Australian and on New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2082105-explosive-road-rage-like-anger-linked-to-parasite-spread-by-cats/

I learned about this parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, at uni. It's life cycle is in the guts of cats (or other predators I guess) and the brains of prey (mice). Guess what? People get it too - in the brain.

It was well known that mice infected with it were risk takers, and the evolutionary explanation is that it makes them more likely to get predated.
So this is interesting research. I wonder if I have T. gondii sitting in my amygdala (bottom reptilian fight/flight brain)?

I have lived with cats on and off for many years, including cleaning up their messes.

Maybe I am the mouse that roars? Or am I just a viking trapped in the 21st century?

 

The sometime beserker in Eric the Viking

T. gondii life cycle

cyst full of T. gondii - who needs science fiction?

Brain scan - not mine, but is it the same?

 

Pip thinks about getting into Emu Oil

I'm Starting to get Really Worried

My views about governments, especially the United States government, are well known. Governments: (a) lie, (b) react after the event and are not proactive, (c) are massively wasteful (d) reduce organizational effectiveness, (e) do not listen to good advice, (f) attempt to solve problems with force, rules or taxes, (g) govern in the interests of the wealthiest 1% of individuals and corporations, and (h) lie again. The so called media in the United States, and most of the Western world, is owned by a handfull of corporations who are far from a fearless and independent source of news. It is always a battle to find out what is really going on.

In this context, I am very concerned about the ebola pandemic in West Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) has done the most woeful job in mobilising resources, and the major powers with resources to help have been far more interested in planning the bombing of sections of the Middle East and aggravating Russia than protecting the health of human civilisation.

The are now so many cases in West Africa that it will take monumental effort (thus far no sign of this effort) to contain the disease in West Africa, and a spread to other parts of the world is inevitable. In fact, the spread has already begun.

The response of our Western governments has been so pathetic that it is almost as if it is deliberate. And is it a coincidence that it is amongst the elite 1 % that control these governments where one finds psychopaths who have actually called for a massive cull of the human population. I fear for all of us.

Just looking at the news today, ebola is now in four countries in West Africa plus the United States, Spain and probably Brazil. That is what we know about, but who knows how bad the reality may be.

From the news today:

West Africa

The number of deaths attributed to the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, the World Health Organization says.

The latest figures show there have been 4,024 confirmed or suspected deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Eight deaths are linked to the haemorrhagic fever in Nigeria and one in the US.  In total, there have been 8,399 confirmed or suspected cases, mostly in West Africa.

United States

One of the Sheriff’s Deputies who was forced to enter the apartment where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan stayed before he was taken to hospital has fallen ill.

A statement issued by the City of Frisco, a suburb of Dallas, suggests that a second potential Ebola victim has been taken to the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, the same facility where Duncan stayed before his death this morning.

The CDC claims “the patient did not have direct contact with Duncan and he was not one of the 48 people being monitored by federal, state and local health officials.”

However, according to a Dallas Morning News report, the individual was one of the Sheriff’s Deputies who was forced to enter Ebola victim Duncan’s apartment last week. Duncan’s family told the media that they received no advice from the CDC on how to go about cleaning the apartment and it was a number of days before a professional Hazmat team arrived to clean the building.

Spain

(Reuters) - Spanish health workers angry about the government's handling of an Ebola outbreak jeered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and pelted his car with surgical gloves on Friday at a Madrid hospital where a nurse lay seriously ill with the virus.

Recriminations are growing over how nurse Teresa Romero became the first person to contract the virus outside West Africa, but Rajoy said it was extremely unlikely that the disease - which has already killed more than 4,000 people - would spread in Spain.

Seven more people were admitted to a specialist isolation unit at the Carlos III hospital on Thursday, taking to 14 the number of people now under observation or being treated there, including Romero's husband.

"Our first priority is Teresa Romero - she is the only person that we know has the illness," Rajoy told reporters on the steps of the hospital.

Tempers are fraying over the case, with labor unions accusing the government of trying to deflect the blame onto the nurse for the failings of its health system. The health workers who have been protesting outside the hospital this week heckled  Rajoy as he left the news conference in a motorcade.

The seven new admissions late on Thursday included two hairdressers who had given Romero a beauty treatment before she was diagnosed, and hospital staff who had treated the 44-year-old nurse after she was admitted on Monday.

Brazil

Brazil is treating a 47-year-old man who has become the country’s first suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus.

The man, originally from Guinea in West Africa, has been placed into isolation at a hospital in the city of Cascavel, where Brazil’s ministry of health have sent specialists to provide additional help and care.

He arrived in Brazil on 19 September and is believed to have travelled from Guinea.

On Thursday afternoon the man went to the emergency department at the hospital with a fever. His case is being treated by medics as suspicious as his symptoms have developed within the maximum incubation period for Ebola, which is 21 days.

Brazil’s health officials said the man has not experienced any bleeding, vomiting or shown any other symptoms at this time, but he will be transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases at the Evandro Chagas hospital in Rio de Janeiro, in accordance with security protocols in place for suspected cases of Ebola.

Health officials are now attempting to identify people who may have come into contact with the patient while displaying any symptoms, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported.

Macedonia

Meanwhile, Macedonian authorities said there was only a "small probability" a Briton who died in Skopje on Thursday had the Ebola virus, according to an initial analysis.

Macedonian health authorities have sent blood and tissue samples from the dead Briton to Frankfurt for testing.

CDC

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is responding to only half the calls it is receiving from doctors reporting Ebola-like symptoms in patients, according to doctors who spoke to Infowars medical correspondent Dr. Edward Group.

The CDC’s lackluster response to upwards of 40 calls a day regarding potential Ebola cases is disturbing to the medical professionals who spoke to Dr. Group and it follows a similar pattern of performance by CDC officials who were slow to decontaminate both the apartment of the late Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan and the ambulance used to transport him to the hospital.

When asked to comment on the response rate to these calls, the CDC Media Relations office at first referred us to its unrelated “CDC Hotline” and then refused to connect us directly to a public information officer on a sequential call because the office is screening questions from the press.

It’s no wonder then that doctors are having similar problems reaching the CDC, and such behavior is typical of the agency, which has so far placed more emphasis on the proper burial of Ebola victims than following proper disease protocols meant to prevent the virus from spreading in the first place.

Case in point, the CDC is now instructing funeral homes to bury Ebola victims in sealed caskets and had previously warned funeral workers not to embalm corpses.

Additionally, previous reports suggested the CDC had purchased thousands of airtight coffin liners and were storing them in Madison, Georgia.

Dr Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, recently showed up at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

Dr Mobley has made a prediction about this pandemic, and his prediction is unfortunately more plausible that the information coming out of CDC news conferences:

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

Visual Metaphor

In praise of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio

 

You can get to hear stuff like this:

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/13/248195238/does-the-subjunctive-have-a-dark-side

or this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids - I heard this one the other night.

(here's another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo - 5 dangerous things you should let your children do. )

You would never get any of this from the private firms ...

or this - THE trusted source of info in an emergency:

 

 

 

The Cure For Vegetarianism

The cure for the psychological condition known as vegetarianism is pretty obvious. No one can resist the sight + sound + smell + taste of fried bacon.

Losing Faith

Some years ago I lost faith in my Linux experiment because it was not a stable and reliable replacement for Windows, much as I hated Windows.

My current experiment has taken a turn for the worse. I cannot start Ubuntu on my Zenbook, and I am losing faith again.

Better than fish in a sink - undies in a sugar bowl

When Peter and Paul and Andy were still playing at postgraduate studies (or Thygo still was, c1990 ) and Thygo had a Mac he allowed Paul and Andy to access his room at B&G.

Thygo returned home that summer (having driven Paul and Anne from Sydney and dropped them off in Aranda) to find a present(s) in his sink.

The sink was filled with orange jelly and in the nicely set jelly was a fish. There were other assorted pranks, some of which took some time to discover.

Well, today Carl showed his innate prankishness.

Where to hide a pair of underpants? Why in the sugar bowl of course!!

 

 

 

Spider Man !

Televisions, Computers and Laptops

PythonMagus has asked me for EMF readings for television and computers. I am happy to oblige. The nasty surprise comes with laptop computers.

Televisions

I detected no danger with my television. I have a Samsung 50 inch LCD flatscreen.

[1]  Right next to the screen there was an electro magnetic reading of 10-15 milligauss, however [2] this dissipated to less tham 3 milligauss a couple of feet away. The readings were the same whether the TV was showing moving images or a still photograph with lots of black as in the above image. There was a low microwave reading of .03 mW/cm2 but only within 3 centimetres of the screen.

With the TV sitting in the corner of the room, and at least 7 feet away from the nearest watching position, there does not appear to be anything to worry about.

Laptop Computers

We are a household with one desktop, and four laptop computers. All of the girls have an Apple laptop and I used a three month old Macbook Pro 13 inch for my test.

[3] Right next to the laptop screen I got a reading of 10-15 milligauss. [4] Moving back to the keyboard this reading went down to 4-5 milligauss which is just over my safe level of 3 milligauss. [5] Moving further back to the fromt of the laptop the reading was down to 1 milligauss.

The above readings may be a bit higher than I would like but not cause for huge concern as long as you don't stick your face right near the screen. But there is a less obvious and nasty problem with the laptop.

[6] Under the laptop, at the area where the computer actually makes contact with your body, was a high reading of 100 milligauss. This is definitely not good, especially when the 'lap' is the part of the body near the testicles and ovaries.

The lesson is don't use a laptop on your lap. When you put the laptop on a table and sit under the table, or use a portable laptop table / tray, this high reading is mostly blocked out. The table is better because there is more space between the computer and the lap. The laptop readings were the same whether the power cord was used or the laptop operated on battery. I did not get any microwave readings with the laptop.

Desktop Computers

My desktop computer setup did not give me grounds for concern.

[7] The desktop computer itself only gave a reading of 3 milligauss immediately outside the front of the case. [8] The computer screen, which is a Dell 22 inch LCD flatscreen, gave a reading of 10 milligauss right against the screen, but this went down to 3 milligauss 1 foot away. [9] The keyboard gave a reading of 2.5 milligauss. [10] The biggest reading came from the powerboard, which was over 100 milligauss right next to the outlets but down to 1 milligauss less than 1 foot away. As long as the powerboard is a couple of feet away from the body this is OK. I did not get any microwave readings with the computer equipment.

The last computer equipment I tested was the wireless router. Given that this equipment is designed to emit wireless internet to the house I was expecting a high reading. [11] Right next to the router the reading was 100 milligauss. [12] However, moving away from the router the reading was down to 2.5 milligauss 1 foot away. I did not get any microwave readings with the wireless router.

As long as the wireless router is keep at least a couple of feet away from the body it seems to be OK.

The children (and myself) are pleased that the television and the computers are not going to meet the same fate as the microwave. But (notwithstanding the name) the laptops should not be used directly on the lap.

Microwave Ovens are Dangerous

I continue with my investigations into Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF). My concerns commenced in September 2013 and my research culminated in my undertaking of an Earthing Experiment on myself in January 2014. I have now created a new category for this blog: Crusade Against EMF.

Recently I purchased a TriField Meter from an engineer in Melbourne. This is an instrument that can measure AC magnetic fields (a gauss meter), AC electric fields and radio including microwaves (a microwave is an extremely high frequency radio wave). There is some debate as to what is included in the general expression EMF. I use EMF to describe the general electromagnetic field radiation including microwaves that is produced from electric transmission equipment, power lines, electric equipment of all sorts, mobile phones, microwave ovens, computer monitors, and video/audio devices. This is the invisible soup we all live in now.

 
Just because we can't detect EMF with our senses doesn't mean it is not there, or that it is not dangerous. Only a small spectrum (basically light and some sound) are detectable by humans.

There is debate as to what the safe levels of EMF are. Magnetic fields are measured in milligauss and electric fields are measured in volts/meter which can by calculated at 10 x milligauss. Microwaves are measured in many ways including mW/cm2. A search of the internet indicates a big range as to what is regarded as safe. For magnetic and electric fields, the US EPA and countries like Sweden regard 3 milligauss or less as safe. Australia has no recommendations. Russia (which claims to have done the most research in this area since the 1940s) has lower levels and the cut off is 1 milligauss or less. On the other end of the spectrum, some power companies use a cut off of 1,000 milligauss but this is a laughable level from a vested interest. There is also debate over microwave levels, with many standards using  5 mW/cm2 as a safe level, others using 1 mW/cm2, others 0.1 mW/cm2 and others even lower.

I have assumed 3 milligauss and 1 mW/cm2 is the cut off point (Russians would say this is too high).

I have taken interesting readings using my TriField Meter all over the house, but the most dramatic was with the microwave oven. I had assumed that a microwave oven only emitted microwaves and only when the microwave function was on, and that this would be inside the oven. Wrong and wrong and wrong.

 
The microwave oven measurements are an eye opener.

1. With the power cord to the microwave oven turned off, the measurement for milligauss (electro magnetic fields) was zero, as was the measurement for microwaves. No surprises here.
2. With the power turned on, but not operating the microwave, a massive measurement of over 100 milligauss was measured outside the microwave oven. This is scary. The microwave emits this all day 24/7 even if you don't use the microwave function. And everybody leaves the microwave oven plugged in with the power point on because there is a clock on the oven, which becomes the kitchen clock.
3. One foot away from the microwave oven, again with the power on but not operating the microwave, the TriField Meter records 3.5 milligauss. This means if you stand next to and look in the window of a microwave oven, even with the microwave function turned off and not cooking anything, you expose yourself to an unsafe electromagmetic field.
4. Now to test for microwaves. With the microwave oven power on, but not turning on the microwave function, the microwave reading is zero. Expected, but remember there is still over 100 milligauss of electro magnetic field outside the oven.
5. Turn on the microwave function to heat something and there is over 1 mW/cm2 outside the oven. The reading on the TriField Meter was maxed out so I don't know how high it actually was.
6. One foot away from the oven with the microwave function operating and there was still a reading of 0.5 mW/cm2. This means if you stand next to and look in the window of a microwave oven while it is heating something you are exposed to both an electro magnetic field and microwaves. They don't tell you this when you buy a microwave oven.
7. Two feet away from the oven with the microwave function operating and there was a reading of 0.3 mW/cm2. This covered the kitchen sink and the area where we stand to prepare food. What is most concerning is that there are microwaves outside the oven, not just inside the oven like we think is the case.

Our microwave oven was a relatively new piece of equipment and not faulty as far as I could tell. Little did I know that it was an unsafe EMF emitter 24/7 sitting in the middle of the kitchen. There are other ways to heat and cook food, so now this oven has a new home.

I Conducted a Medical Experiment Upon Myself

On Australia Day (26 January, two weeks ago) I commenced a medical experiment upon myself. I did not want to report until I had at least two weeks of data.

I have previously ranted about my fears concerning the wireless soup we live in these days, per my post in September 2013 Wireless Madness. Since then I have been researching ways to deal with this, and the general unhealthiness of the modern lifestyle.

A few weeks ago I came across 'Earthing' (also known as 'Grounding'). At first I thought "toot toot" (as we are trained to do) then I did more research and discovered there is scientific support for Earthing including experimental data and various papers. The huge benefit appears to be less inflamation (increasingly recognised as the cause of many ailments) and a thinner and healthier blood supply, which is a great boost to cellular health and the immune system.

What on earth is Earthing (sorry, irresistable pun). There is a good summary at Barefoot Healing Australia and the following:

We all live and function electrically on an electrical planet. We are each of us a collection of dynamic electrical circuits. In the living matrix of our complex bodies, trillions of cells constantly transmit and receive energy in the course of their programmed biochemical reactions. The movement of nutrients and water into the cells is regulated by electric fields, and each type of cell has a frequency range in which it operates. Your heart, brain, nervous system, muscles, and immune system are prime examples of electrical subsystems operating within your "bioelectrical" body. The fact is, all of your movements, behaviours, and actions are energized by electricity. Earthing research demonstrates that connection to the Earth initiates an immediate electrophysiological shift inside your body indicative of improved blood, nervous system, immune system, and muscular function.

In electricity, all electrical systems are "grounded"; that is, stabilized by the electrical energy of the Earth's surface. Without a ground, appliances or sophisticated medical devices would not work properly. Similarly, when connected to the Earth, the body receives an electric signal that normalizes and stabilizes its many biological systems and mechanisms. This signal also appears to be the source of negatively charged free electrons, present in unlimited quantity on the surface of the Earth. The hypothesis put forward by scientists involved in Earthing research is that the transfer of electrons into the body quenches or neutralizes positively charged, electron-seeking free radicals that drive chronic inflammation activity at the core of many common diseases. We suggest that the mightiest anti-inflammatory on the planet may be the very planet itself! We further suggest that destructive chronic inflammation may be the result of an electron deficiency that is remedied by contact with the Earth's infinite reservoir of free electrons.

I was sufficiently intrigued to try earthing for myself. My experiment was to earth myself for at least 8 hours per day (at night using an earthed sheet, combined with an earthing mat under my desk at work and under our computer desk at home). The Python had a clue when he visited me at work this week and I was barefoot.

I purchased an earthing kit. This is how I set up my earthed sheet:

A

I tested the powerpoint to ensure that the plug was properly earthed. Three red lights means everything is OK and the bottom plug is earthed. (I also discovered the powerpoints in the bathroom - which we don't use - were not earthed which is very bad).

 

B

The earthing plug creates a wired connection to the earthed prong on the powerpoint. There is no connection at all to the top two electrical and neutral pins. 

 

C

The earthing plug is connected to the powerpoint. Note that the powerpoint is not even turned on because only the earthing connection is needed.

 

 D

The cord from the earthing plug connects to the underside of a cotton sheet, which is threaded with a conductive silver thread in a rectangular pattern.

 

E

The pattern of silver threads is quite tight, and interestingly the surface area within each rectangle made by the silver threading is the same size as a PRESTAGS counter. When the skin touches the silver threading the body becomes earthed.

F

I tested an ordinary sheet. Obviously this sheet is not earthed.

 

G

Then I tested the cotton - silver thread sheet connected to the earth socket. Green light goes on: bingo it is earthed.

 

Today is 14 days since I commenced the experiment. Time to report upon the results thus far.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING (I KID YOU NOT)!!

I can honestly report the following:

1. On the first night, I had the best night's sleep in years. I woke feeling much more refreshed than usual and full of energy. I have slept like this and woken like this every day since.
2. My father has bad arthritis, and for the last 4 years or so I have had soreness and stiffness in my joints, especially my knuckles and knees. This soreness and stiffmess has noticeably decreased.
3. My head feels 'clear' and I have maintained concentration and mental agility at work much more than I had previously.
4. I have been told my snoring has decreased.
5. I cut myself (accidentally) and I healed twice as fast as before.
6. My appetite has changed. For the last 10 years I had woken without an appetite. My breakfast had been coffee. Now I wake slightly hungry and crave a bowl of All Bran or Wheat Bix, which I have been enjoying for breakfast.
7. I also have increased sensitivity to sugar, and only want half a teaspoon (not 2 teaspoons) in my coffee and generally I don't crave lollies (I was a jube fiend) or lemonade.
8. I enjoy lunch and dinner but feel satisfied after a normal size helping (previously I would eat double).
9. My muscles feel stronger and I have not been feeling puffed after a couple of flights of stairs.
10. I have felt more calm and relaxed throughout the day. Things that used to stress me do not do so any more. Although thankfully I have never had bouts of depression or anything like that, I feel 'happier' and 'balanced'.

 
In only two weeks, a really remarkable health benefit. I intend to keep on earthing and all I can say is: Try it out. Seriously, if you are not as healthy as you'd like and particularly if you are stressed, give it a go.

Earthing products are available at Earthing Oz and Barefoot Healing.

The soles of our feet have more nerve endings than almost any other part of our body: maybe I know the reason now. What next? Who knows, perhaps there is a clue in this photo of the Python that he does not remember I kept a copy of: