Dateline Wuxi, Friday, November 30, 2012

Ruth weight was unchanged at 63.1

My weight is down from 93.8 to 93.0  still going in the right direction.

93kg = 205lb 0.47873oz  Working my way down to the 200 pound mark again, despite my bad nocturnal behaviour.

 604 calories on the elliptical this morning in my 31 minutes.  Watching another episode of CSI.  It’s so close to being good, but when I hear one expert in forensics telling another expert something both would know, it takes the smart off it.

“No, the wounds were post mortem.”
“How do you know that?”
“No blood flow.  Her heart wasn’t pumping when this was done.”

This is so obvious.  Even somebody as ignorant as I knows that it’s easy to tell whether a wound was inflicted before or after death.  To tell that to a fellow forensic expert just makes it expository dialogue for the benefit of the audience.  Ruth came up with the simple solution: “How do you know that in this case?”