construction fumes, processed food, and trees

Today I learned that it's the house three houses down on the other side of the block that's dismantled to the studs that is fixing it so I can't hang around in the tent during the day. It could have been the house on the diagonal that's getting its siding replaced, two houses closer than the stripped one, that was doing me in, but a walk around the block made the whole thing pretty clear. We spent the day in the kitchen, which in the overall scheme of things, is not a bad way to go, but there's no coffee table.

In other news, by following links from Fark, I learned that people in the UK "use an enormous amount of processed food, like ready meals, compared to most countries." I expect the US is not most countries, either, and that's why we spend so much time worrying about food components from China. That first article also says that trees are major producers of methane, which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO₂, so it turns out that trees will kill you.