Manzanita bitters

Hunter & Co's
Celebrated Very Justly
MANZANITA BITTERS.

If you want to drink an exceedingly pleasant and healthy Tonic and at the same time Encourage Home Manufacture, Try this splendid article.  It has never been advertised, and is comparatively new, but its own merits have already caused it to be so widely known and so immensely popular, that the thousand and one kinds of TRASH imported and purporting to be imported from the States and palmed off upon the public as good HEALTHY Bitters, are being driven from the market.

Nearly all old California miners are acquainted with the virtue of the MANZANITA bush, from EXPERIENCE, besides which, it has been pronounced to contain rare medical properties, by some of the first physicians and chemists of the age, and we assure the public that it has lost nothing in the compound.  Aside from it, one of the principle ingredients being CALIFORNIA WINE.

HUNTER & CO., Sole Proprietors
Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO
For Sale EVERYWHERE  de24m3






Los Angeles Star newspaper, February 18, 1960 and March 10, 1860 found at the LA County Library

Heart rate monitors

Exercising while using a heart rate monitor can give you important health information.

There are several heart rate monitors at Bike Nashbar.

Of the non-cyclocomputer ones, Suuntu is the only one with download feature
Suunto T6 Fitness Computer $249.95
https://www.nashbar.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10053_10052_201622_-1_17501__17501

This Sigma looks adequate for my needs
Sigma Sport PC14 Heart Rate Monitor $39.99
https://www.nashbar.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10053_10052_122315_-1_17501__17501
I don't know what quality this is

Amazon has a wider selection including an intriguing GPS + chronograph + Hr monitor made by Garmin
Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor $175.29
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-Receiver-Heart-Monitor/dp/B000CSWCQA/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1237839976&sr=8-7

Polar is the industry leader, so far as I can tell. This basic HRM looks like it would meet my needs
Polar FS2 Heart Rate Monitor Watch
http://www.amazon.com/Polar-Heart-Monitor-Watch-Black/dp/B000F6BZC6/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1237841372&sr=1-13

Healthy dinner

I've been trying to eat more healthily. In addition to the coffee + danish that I am no longer eating, I'm trying to shift to even more fruits and vegetables. Here's a meal from earlier in the week, unartfully arranged, but illustrative. Those are artichoke ravioli, radishes from my garden with balsamic vinegar, arugula from my garden cooked with a little bit of bacon and garlic (that's a superb flavor combination and you ought to not feel guilty for adding a little pork fat to your overflowing double handful of arugula. I keep the bacon frozen and slice some off with my large knife for flavoring when needed.), and some Spanish style white beans (pre-prepared from Trader Joes).

EDIT: My mother emailed with a "where's the protein?". I have to admit that the only protein is in the beans plus a little in the ravioli stuffing from romano? cheese.

Change in the wind

Parts of me are excellent, but I was unexpectedly hospitalized earlier this week with some heart issues. This is serious, life threatening, stuff - caught before it manifested as an operational failure. I'm at home now and feeling fine, but I'll be making some lifestyle changes. I believe that I already have an overall healthy lifestyle, but it has to get healthier in ways that I probably don't yet understand completely. So, change is in the wind and it remains to be seen where it will take me.