end game

About 8 to 10 years ago, I made a number of batches of mead. I've read that you're supposed to let this stuff age for years. Well, yesterday I emptied a number of bottles of my mead that had been cluttering up the back of the refrigerator. They smelled OK but I didn't have the courage to try sampling them. I guess I don't know the smell of good mead or simply didn't trust my ability to bottle "safely" and have the results stay good...

Maybe I've finally lost the interest in making home brew?

30 April 2007

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat, a thinly sliced chunk of sour doubh bread, tasted and covered with a tablespoon (roughly) of peanut butter, a can of D.P. and a cup of coffee...

Lunch: Quinox version of "French Dip", chip and a glass of "Diet Coke". They didn't fuck up this time and actually put the "au juice" in the bag...

Dinner: Aryb's chicken finger salad and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Pre-Bed Snack: A gin-n-tonic...

29 April 2007

Breakfast:Bacon, scrabled eggs, Sera Lee Coffee Cake, toasted thin sliced sour dough bread for a bacon samwhich, coffee and a couple of cans of D.P.

Lunch: A peanut butter samwhich.

Dinner: Baked chicken, dressing, aspargious and water.

Pre-Bed Snack: A gin-and-tonic.

28 April 2007

Breakfast: We went out to breakfast and I had two eggs over medium, sausage, whole wheat toast and coffee.

Lunch: Three Taco Hell Bell hard shell tacos and one steak thingie and most of a glass of "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Marianaded Sirloin steak, baked potatoe, broccoli and an Oil Can of Fosters...

Pre-Bed Snack: A couple of gin-and-tonics...

Pre-Bed: The Pink (of course!)

26 April 2007

Breakfast: Oatmeal and some coffee.

Lunch: A Burger King salad (with crispy chicken) and a glass of "Diet Coke".

Snack: Several pieces of dark choclate.

Dinner: Healthy Choice^® Beef Pot Roast With Gravy/ Apple Cranberry Crisp/ Carrots/ Roasted Potatoes and a can of D.P.

Snack: The smell of a co-worker's mashed potatoes got to be too much for me and I simply got too hungry. So, I warmed up the left over "South Beach™" All American Breakfast wrap and put Taco Hell Bell Mild sauce on it...

25 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over baked chicken and rice pilaf and a can of D.P.

Lunch: In Cimarron (at the only diner): A great hamburger, made from hand shaped hamburger and not a machine made paddy (well cooked as well!), French Fries made from real potatoes (they were great!), part of a glass of ice water and a glass of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: Healthy Choice® Chicken Margherita (White Meat Chicken With Angel Hair Pasta * Roasted Garlic In Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce) and a can of D.P.

Anger with local fast food places...

I thought I'd bitch about bad service:

On 23 April 2007:

"Lunch: Quisnos for their equivlent of a "French Dip Samwhich", bag of chips and a drink ("Diet Coke"?). We took this back to Kathie's office and that is when I noticed they'd not put the "dip" in. I called them to complaign and was told "just come back for it". Let's see, that's 8 miles round trip and lunch would be very cold by the time I'd made the trip. I didn't bother..."

I'll give them another chance in a month or so and keep a close "eye out" to see if they provide the "au juice"...

On 24 April 2007:

My wife went to McDonald's and order the "Asian Salad". She got home and found that the almonds and the "Asian" dressing but it was their Southwest Club [or something like that] salad! She went back to McDonald's, gave the woman manager the "bad" salad and the woman there requested "one Asian Salad". The manager was then handed the wrong salad!

The manager when back to the food prep area, demaned "an Asian salad" and stood there until her minions finally were able to produce one! (I probably should not be so snotty about "the minions". After all, they probably do a great job with fries and 'bergers and it really isn't there fault that English isn't their native language. Still, if I worked in a Mexican place, I'd like to think that I'd learn enough Mexican Spainish to produce the ordered food...)

Moral of the stories: Know what you're supposed to be sold and then check to make sure you're actually given it. I was standing there when they didn't give me the "au juice" at Quinos. In my defense, I was distracted: the clerk didn't speak very good English and there was an attractive woman customer (late 20s) standing there with with a lovely amount of cleaveage showing...

My wife went through the drive through window and didn't want to take the time to actually check what she had been given. I don't normally check either but then I almost always go inside so that it would be natural for me to see the items as they are accumulated...

24 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over chicken and pilaf, a cup of coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: An Arby's French Dip Samwhich (and they provided the "au juice" without being prompted!) and a glass of "Diet Coke".

Snack: A couple of pieces of dark chocolate and a little piece of sour dough bread (I was feeling what might have been hypoglycemia). Later, at work, I ate about 2/3 a scoop of the homemade ice creamme I made for the office luncheon last Thursday.

Dinner: Healthy Choice® Beef Pot Roast With Gravy/ Apple Cranberry Crisp/ Carrots/ Roasted Potatoes and a can of D.P.

Pre-bed snack: I just sort of munched: had some left over chicken and a little piece of bread. It was a miserable end to a miserable evening...)

23 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over "meat" from Saturday night, left over rice pilof from last night, a fairly ripe bannanna, a can of D.P. and a cup of (bad) coffee.

Lunch: Quisnos for their equivlent of a "French Dip Samwhich", bag of chips and a drink ("Diet Coke"?). We took this back to Kathie's office and that is when I noticed they'd not put the "dip" in. I called them to complaign and was told "just come back for it". Let's see, that's 8 miles round trip and lunch would be very cold by the time I'd made the trip. I didn't bother...

Dinner: A orange and then a small handful of (somewhat) stale cashews.

I was at work with a bunch of folks who couldn't take time for dinner so I didn't feel right about eatting dinner myself. Not the wisest decision from a "Diabetic Standpoint" but it felt right!

Snack: I got home about 11:10 pm, walked the dog and had a chunk of left over "meat meal" from this past Saturday. I put several different pieces of overcooked meat on a folded over slice of sour dough bread and had this with catsup and mustard (directly on the samwhich) and a coffee cup of Diet Tonic Water.

Post-Halloween Chocolate Pudding", taken from:

I have copied this recipie in the spirit of "Fair Useage" and will remove it should anyone complain.

"Post-Halloween Chocolate Pudding", taken from:

The ULTIMATE DIABETES COOKBOOK by Carol Gelles

1. 3 tablespoons cornstarch
2. 2 or 3 tablespoon sugar
3. 2 tablespoons cocoa
4. 2 cups milk, divided
5. ½ cup (3 ounces) milk-chocolate pieces

1. In a 1½-quart saucepan, stir together the cornstarch, sugar, and cocoa. Stir in ½ cup of the miilk until all lumps are dissolved. Sitr in the remainding milk.

2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly (and I mean that!), about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in the choclate pieces until melted.

3. Pour into 6 small bowls and cover with plastic wrap. Chill at least 2 hours.

Diabetic Exchanges: ¼ bread; 1 other carbohydrate; ¼ milk; 1¼ fat

RECIPIE: Noreme's Coffee Cake

NOREME'S COFFEE CAKE

Noreme is an old friend of my mother, someone she went to college with in the late 1940s. So, this recipe has been tested by my family since then...

1 stick oleo (or butter)
1 cup sugar2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Mix sugar and oleo until puffy. Add eggs, vanilla and sour cream, then beat. Add dry ingredients and mix. Pour half of batter into greased baking pan (a loaf shaped pan).

Mix ¹/₂ cup sugar with tsp cinnamon. Pour half of this over the batter.
Put remainder of batter into pan and pour remaining topping over this batter. Bake in 350 F oven for 45 to 55 min. Put a clean knife blade into the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is done.

Pull it out and put it on the top of the stove (or other heat proof place), let cool, slice, smear with butter (or whatever you call that white stuff) and enjoy!

22 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over spaghetti and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Burger King salad and a glass of "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Baked chicken, rice pilaf, broccoli and a big glass of White Zin.

Pre-Bed Snack: a piece of dark chocolate...

Consequences to dinner: The result of dinner was I needed "The Pink" (Pepto Bismol). I couldn't sleep on my left side because I kept "burping up" stomach juices (very untasty!) and it wa nearly as bad on my back. I refused to give in and simply go vomit (I should have...) So, I spent most of the night on my right side...

I did get defiant and rolled onto my left side once; this resulted in a stabbing pain on my right side a couple of inches up from the bottom of my ribs. I was thinking it was a gall blatter attack or maybe my appeneix? Anyway, the pain went away once I rolled onto my right side and the feeling the skin was rigid and blotted outward was gone when I awoke...

I can't blame my wife's cooking (now can I?) , so I'll blame it on the "White Zin".

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21 April 2007

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, well cooked bacon, toast, coffee cake and coffee (of course) and a can (or two) of D.P.

Lunch: Hambergers and D.P.

Dinner: A homemade meat dish (my attempt to remember what my Mother made when I was in 6th grade or about 1963), boiled broccoli and a bottle of MGD.

Pre-Bed Snack: A dispairing gin-and-tonic...

20 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over boiled pork chops, potatoes and sour krat and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Arby's salad and a "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Montana Mike's 20 oz Porterhouse steak, loaded baked potatoe (cheese and bacon chunks added), roll, two glasses of "Diet Pepsi", salad with French dressing before hand and most of a piece of choclate cake afterwards.

Pre-Bed Snack: A couple of gin-and-tonic...

19 April 2007

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat, two bannanas and coffee.

Snack: A little bit of the cooked pork chops, sour kraut and potatoes I made yesterday and I can of D.P.

Lunch: A nicely big one!

1. Rick's homemade stew, which consisted of:
   • Polish sausage
   • sour krat
   • potatoes
2. fried chicken from the 14^th Street Dillions
3. potatoe salad
4. Some sort of noddle salad
5. Fruid pizza (a desert): I didn't touch this as it had fruit I don't like...
6. My homemade vinalli ice cremme
7. my boss' homemade fudge syrup
8. A & W Root Beer
9. Probably a few things that excape my memory...and of course, a can of D,P. and then a second can of D.P.

Here is a quote from Johnny's Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down":

"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert"

I can't believe that I once thought this was an innocent and nice song! Of course, that was when I was a naive and callow (and overly protected) teenager in the late 1960s. I am far removed from that person...

Now, I hear a very sad song. These lines brings back bad memories:

"Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
_And found my cleanest dirty shirt"

There were times in the early 1970s when I did exactly that many times! (Of course, my Navy uniforms were fairly clean and pressed, but my civilian cloths were not...)

The initial point to this balderash was to disply the paraphrase of Cash's line here:

"And the Diet Pepsi I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
_So I had one more for dessert"

This is a paraphrase and has everything to do with with my fondness for Diet Pepsi.

Back to commentary on the luncheon: A fellow who is famous for never eatting at work had some of the chicken and said "I think I'll try Mike B---'s ice creamme". I'm glad I was sitting down; I'd have collasped in shock had I not been sitting down!

Dinner: Salad and can of D.P.

18 April 2007

Breakfast: Breakfast: A soft boiled egg (sort of) and coffee at 6³⁰ and One of those South Beach Diet™ "All American" Breakfast Wraps and a can of D.P. (and a bit of once decent coffee that was becoming bad coffee to wash my morning pills down with...)

Lunch: Casey's Cowtown for baked ham, mashed potatoe and white gravy, roll and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
Dinner: Salad and water.

17 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over oatmeal and c offee.

Snack<: Some those crackers and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Healthy Choice Pot Roast and a can of D.P.

Snack; Some Town House Reduced Fat cracker, a small piece of dark choclate and a can of D.P.

Dinner:

Pre-Bed Snack:

16 April 2007

Breakfast: oatmeal, a bannana and coffee.

Lunch: A bananna. South Beach Diet™ Breakfast Wraps All American and a can of D.P.

Snack: A soft boiled ergg on a slice of sour dough bread.

Dinner: Burger King crispy chicken salad with croutons and mustard dressing and a glass of water.

15 April 2007

Breakfast: Breakfast: Two Jimmy Dean Omelets "Three Cheese" (Tastes Like Homemade) and a bananna and a can of D.P.

Pre-Lunch: A bananna and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Lazanna and a can of D.P,

Dinner: A Wendy's salad and water...

Desert: A glass of gin-and-tonic...

14 April 2007

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and coffee.

Lunch: Two Rubins and can of tomatoe soup plus a can (or two) of D.P.

Dinner: Montana Mike's for salad with small amount of bite sized sirloin

13 April 2007

Pre-Breakfast: Coffee...

Breakfast: McDonald's "Big Breakfast" (scrambled eggs, bisquit, 2 pancakes with butter and syrup and a sausage paddie) and a can of D.P.

Lunch: An Arby's bacon, cheddar, sliced roast beef samwhich, fries and a small? medium? glass of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: We didn't want to go shopping as it is snowing heavily! Truly a "White Friday The Thirteenth". Dinner was:

1. Scrambled Eggs,
2. well cooked bacon from Kirby's Meats
3. Coffee Cake and
4. a glass of water.

12 April 2007

Breakfast: A Burger King "Big Omlette Samwhich" and coffee.

Lunch: Casey's Cowntown for a big hamberger, large fries and "Diet Pepsi"

Movie Snack: Nochetos and cheese...

Dinner: At the "Chart House" (formerly "Frieghthouse") for a 12 oz Rib Eye steak, baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme, roll and butter, salad with French dressing and some of Kathie's "Mexican Rice" and some chips and sausa.

11 April 2007

Breakfast: Left over roast beef and potatoes and gravy.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: Chicken Fried Chicken with white gravy, mashed potatoes with white gravy, corn, roll and butter and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: We went to the Spearville Kansas Lions Club: Several slices of turkey, scalloped potatoes, rolls (2) and butter and water. The meal was outstanding, as usual!

10 April 2007

Breakfast:

Lunch:

Dinner: A Burger King salad and water.

Pre-Bed Snack:

09 April 2007

Pre-Breakfast: A soft boiled egg, boilt last night and a can of D.P.

Breakfast: A large bowl of oatmeal and some coffee.

Lunch: Healthy Choice® Classic Grilled Chicken BBQ White Meat Chicken WIth BBQ Sauce/ Peach Desert/ Roasted Potatoes/ Broccoli Florets and a can of D.P.

Post-Lunch: After walking rapidly for 30 min, I had the munchies and ate some sour dough bread, some semi-sweet choclate chips and drank a couple of D.P. I knew I shouldn't and tried resisting but it was to no avail...

Dinner: Burger King salad with baked chicken and a big glass of water! Oh and a 12 oz bottle of MGD...

07 April 2007

Breakfast: South Beach Diet™ Breakfast Wraps "All American" and a can of D.P.

Breakfast (Real!): Oatmeal and coffee.

Lunch: Healthy Choice® Grilled White Meat Chicken In Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Sauce Over Linguini Pasta / Broccoli Florets and a can of D.P.!

Dinner: Probably a salad...

06 April 07

Breakfast: Oatmeal and a left over bar-b-qued chicken leg, coffee and a can of D.P.

Snack: The last left over bar-b-qued chicken leg and coffee.

Lunch: Healthy Choice® Grilled Chicken Marinara Chicken Breast & Pasta In Marinara Sauce/ Broccoli Florets and a can of D.P.

Snack: Popcorn, D.P. and some small stuff that escapes my memory at this time (I'm writing this the next morning.)

Dinner: A Taco Hell Bell "salad"; this joke had almost no lettuse, a small amount of meat, too mucy refried beans and co$t way too much (I'm sure!)

My blood sugar was 142, two hours after eatting this "fine meal" and that seemed a bit high. I didn't resist when my wife asked if I wanted a gin-and-tonic...

05 April 2007

Breakfast: Burger King "SOS", potatoe thingies and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: At a small restaurant in Jetmore Kansas: some turkey, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, dressing, coffee and some kind of chocolate pudding

Dinner: South Beach Diet™ Asian Inspired Orange Beef (Beef Slices & Brown Rice In Orange Sauce With Broccoli, Bamboo Shoots, & Carrots) and a bottle of MGD.

Pre-Bed Snack:

04 April 2007

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: Chicken Fried Chicken and white gravy, mashed potatoes and white gravy, corn and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"...

Dinner: Barby chicken legs, cole slau and a gin-and-tonic.

03 April 2007

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima® pancakes and sausage, a cup of coffee, some left over steak from April Fool's Dinner and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Salad and Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: Healthy Choice^® Pot Roast dinner and a glass of water.

Pre-Bed Snack: Gin and tonic and peanut butter on sour dough bread.

02 April 2007

Breakfast: Oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: An Applebys salad and two glasses of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Four slices of meat pizza and some no-salt peanuts and a can of D.P. (I had planned on having a Healthy Choice® but got talked into "sharing" some pizza with co-workers...

Pre-Bed Snack: A slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and a gin-and-tonic. I suspect I drank it more for the flavour and thirst quenching than the gin...

April Fool's Day 2007

Breakfast: Breakfast: We'd planned on having breakfast at the hotel we were staying in. After all, we had a decent breakfast the morning before. The breakfast area was crammed with people; there were more folks standing that there were seated. Some seats were empty since it was impossible for anyone to get into them...

They were out of S.O.S. and didn't have waffles as we had expected.

The room was loaded -ney! crammed with the "Square Dancers" who had occupied the "Conference Room" in the No Smoking wing until 2 am and had:

1. Smoked! In the no smoking wing...
   
2. Played their music very loudly well after 10 pm!
   
3. danced loudly in spite of being asked to at least quit smoking and cut the noise level!
   

I guess smokers just can't help being assholes!

Actual Breakfast: We went to McDonald's and got take out: I got the scrambled egg and sausage and potatoe thingie breakfast and a "medium coffee".

Lunch: At Red Lobster: Oven baked "blackened" catfish, baked potatoe, salad and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi". Initially, they brought out fried catfish and when I commented the waitress told me to "eat the fish and I'll bring out the blackened catfish". I did so and didn't complain even if the "blacked catfish" was about half raw...

For desert, I had chocolate cake, vanilla ice creamme and the whole had dark chocolate drizzled on it...

OK, so this will fuck up my A1C in less than two months but this is the first fish I've had at a restaurant in many months and I can't help it when I'm dining out and get the chance to eat some really fine chocolate cake...

It reminds me too much of visiting my Maternal Grandparents on special occasions...

Dinner: I bar-b-qued steak that had been basting in my Father's Marinade for three (3!) days! and potatoe salad and a can of D.P.

Also, I had a gin-and-tonic (or two) for desert...

Post-Halloween Chocolate Pudding", taken from:

I have copied this recipie in the spirit of "Fair Useage" and will remove it should anyone complain.

"Post-Halloween Chocolate Pudding", taken from:

The ULTIMATE DIABETES COOKBOOK by Carol Gelles

1. 3 tablespoons cornstarch
2. 2 or 3 tablespoon sugar
3. 2 tablespoons cocoa
4. 2 cups milk, divided
5. ½ cup (3 ounces) milk-chocolate pieces

1. In a 1½-quart saucepan, stir together the cornstarch, sugar, and cocoa. Stir in ½ cup of the miilk until all lumps are dissolved. Sitr in the remainding milk.

2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly (and I mean that!), about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in the choclate pieces until melted.

3. Pour into 6 small bowls and cover with plastic wrap. Chill at least 2 hours.

Diabetic Exchanges: ¼ bread; 1 other carbohydrate; ¼ milk; 1¼ fat

RECIPIE: Jack's Marinade

This is the recipe that my father liked to make. My mother send
me a copy of it.

Jack's Marinade

1/2 cup good whiskey (bourbon or Canadian - not rye or scotch
1/2 cup salad oil
2 T soy sauce
1 T Worcestershire Sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
fresh ground pepper

Blend and pour on steak - turn every 30 min for 3 or 4 hours.

Blend and pour on a roast - turn every 2 or 3 hours for 24
hours. Don't worry about getting up at night, however.

REMEMBER! I live in cattle country! I'm not going to talk about
colestrol! (This is a family rumour that my Father modified a recipie found in Esquire...)

RECIPIE: My Mother's "All Meat Meal"

When I was in 6^th grade, my Mother made an all meat dish. I don't recall what was in it and she wouldn't let me try it. (I had too much the bad reputation for not liking "new" food and she said it was too expensive to waste on me. She didn't give in and since I was "too young to wash dishes", I didn't have the opportunity to salvage any from the left overs...

I got hamberger and my whinny little brother (Jim) was given a nibble. I bitched to my Mother about this and she replied with perfect Mother logic this isn't any of your business. Naturally, little brother Jim "teased" (OK, fucking harrassed) me about this.

Anyway, her meal consisted of various pieces of meat, marianated and rolled into a roll and baked. I seem to recall it had thin beef steak, thin pork (ham wouldn't fit), maybe some dressing and deboned chicken (this was decades before "boneless skinned chicken" was available. I now (the day after) recall she baked this in the oven at 325F for maybe four hours.

My version consisted of:

• two large slabs of "minute steak"
• about a pound of sirloin
• about a pound of boneless pork chop
• four stripes of boneless skinned chicken

I marinaded the beef and pork in my Father's Marianade for several hours and then lined a baking dish with aluminum foil. I put one slab of minute steak on the foil, put the sirloin steak over this, the pork chops over the steak, layered the chicken on top of the pork and put the second minute steak slab on top of the chicken. Then, I poured the left over marianade over this and sealed the aluminum foil over it.

I baked it at 325F for an hour, uncovered the meat and cooked for another half hour. The meat thermometer said it was too cool (about 130F). I ended up jacking the heat to 400F and cooking it for another 30 to 40 minutes. We were afraid of undercooked pork so we sliced the roll and microwaved it 'till be felt it was safe to eat.

I then put the left overs (roughtly half the "loaf") back in the oven at 325F and when I pulled it out, it was well done (and job wise, I think I deserved a "well done"!).

The next time I try this, I'll prebake the pork and chicken. That way, we don't have to "overcook" the steak in order to have a "safe to eat" meal.

RECIPIE: Tuna Noodle Casserol

A bunch of homemade tuna noodle casserole:

1. 2 cans of tuna
2. two cans of creamme of mushroom soup
3. sliced and diced very sharp Tillamook cheddar cheese
   
4. some kind of sliced "yellow" cheese
5. crumbled potatoe chips
6. uncrumpled potatoe chips

Put in a oven at 325F and bake for maybe 30 - 40 minutes. Basically, long enough to warm this trough.

dinner - 19 April 2007

Normally, I'd blame my dinner (evening meal) for a high blood sugar reading. But, given what I ate for lunch and the benign meal I had that evening, I've got to think I really jacked up my blood sugar at lunch and so, here are the details of my noon feast...

Lunch: A nicely big one!

1. Rick's homemade stew, which consisted of:
   • Polish sausage
   • sour krat
   • potatoes
2. fried chicken from the 14^th Street Dillions
3. potatoe salad
4. Some sort of noddle salad
5. Fruit pizza (a desert): I didn't touch this as it had fruit I don't like...
6. My homemade vinelli ice cremme
7. my boss' homemade fudge syrup
8. A & W Root Beer
9. Probably a few things that escape my memory...and of course, a can of D,P. and then a second can of D.P.

Here is a quote from Johnny's Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down":

"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert"

I can't believe that I once thought this was an innocent and nice song! Of course, that was when I was a naive and callow (and overly protected) teenager in the late 1960s. I am far removed from that person...

Now, I hear a very sad song. These lines brings back bad memories:

"Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
_And found my cleanest dirty shirt"

There were times in the early 1970s when I did exactly that many times! (Of course, my Navy uniforms were fairly clean and pressed, but my civilian cloths were not...)

The initial point to this balderdash was to display the paraphrase of Cash's line here:

"And the Diet Pepsi I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
_So I had one more for dessert"

This is a paraphrase and has everything to do with with my fondness for Diet Pepsi.

Back to commentary on the luncheon: A fellow who is famous for never eating at work had some of the chicken and said "I think I'll try Mike B---'s ice creamme". I'm glad I was sitting down; I'd have collapsed in shock had I not been sitting down!

Dinner: Salad and can of D.P.

dinner - 21 April 2007

Dinner: A homemade meat dish (my attempt to remember what my Mother made when I was in 6th grade or about 1963), boiled broccoli and a bottle of MGD.

March 2007 scores...

            March 2007

Day Date  AM    PM   ≤2  >2   v  s
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Thu    1  ---   ---   0   1   n  n
Fri    2  124   132   1   0   y  y
Sat    3  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Sun    4  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Mon    5  ---   ---   0   0   n  1   m
Tue    6  127   141   0   0   n  n
Wed    7  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Thu    8  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Fri    9  127   145   0   0   n  2
Sat   10  ---   ---   0   0   y  n
Sun   11  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Mon   12  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Tue   13  112    77   0   0   n  n
Wed   14  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Thu   15  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Fri   16  104   ---   0   0   n  n
Sat   17  ---   ---   0   0   n  y
Sun   18  ---   132   0   0   n  n
Mon   19  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Tue   20  102   142   0   0   n  n   m
Wed   21  ---   ---   0   0   n  n   m
Thu   22  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Fri   23  117  34/116 0   0   n  n
Sat   24  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Sun   25  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Mon   26  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Tue   27  118   ---   0   0   n  n
Wed   28  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Thu   29  ---   ---   0   0   n  n
Fri   30  ---   ---   0   0   n  1
Sat   31  ---   ---   0   0   n  1

A sign of how well my blood sugar is
controlled is how much I have to piss
after going to bed. If I "go" less
than 2 hours after crashing, then I
did something wrong - ate something
wrong - that night. Taking a piss
more than two hours after crashing is
probably just a normal event.

The "v" (for "vomit") and "s" for
vomit into my mouth and "s"wallow
is an indication of how poorly I
digest fat. This is simply a "sign"
to me that I need to cut down on
the faty food I was raised to love
eatting. This is a real bitch!