26 October 2013

Breakfast: at the McPherson Holiday Inn dining room for scrambled eggs, well cooked bacon, SOS on a biscuit, orange juice and coffee

Lunch: at a quick food place called "Freddies" and I had:

• steak burger
• fries
• medium "Diet Pepsi"
• a "custard with chocolate sauce"

One of the workers went by and I asked "do we have to go to the counter to get the custard". She said "yes" and then probably figured that since I was on the inside, it would be hard for me to get to the counter. She said "I'll get it for you".

It is a heck of a note when some of the best service I've gotten at a restaurant is from someone who isn't paid to provide waitress service. There are a number of sit down places "back home" who could learn serious lessons from this young woman...

Dinner: Since we were at the Kansas Lions State Council meeting in McPherson, our Saturday evening meal was catered by Montana Mikes. This is a buffet and I had my usual:

• roast beef
• mashed potatoes
• mixed boiled broccoli florets and carrots
• a roll with butter
• lots of that seductive gravy
• cold water and
• apple crisp for desert

After dinner, several of us went to the Montana Mikes bar and I had two bottles of Corona.

_____"Babylon 5: Meditations on the Abyss (#5.14)" (1998)

______Londo Mollari: "Vir, we are not biologically equipped to handle fast food." 
______Vir Cotto: "I know. I know. But it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-"

As anticipated, I was sick as a dog about an hour and a half after going to bed. It was probably the fat in the gravy and the fatty meat, made worst by the two beers aftger dinner.

I barfed several times and went back to bed. Then, I had to get up and garble to try getting the acid out of my throat. I also ate four Tums.

I went back to  bed and had to get up as I  was coughing up pheum. I stood over the hotel room sink coughing up chunks of yellow and white crap and didn't go back to bed until much later than I wanted to!

This Saturday night meal has been a regular feature twice a year for years and I have blown chunks afterwards since 2004 or 2005. (I suspect diabetes has severely damaged my stomach.) The next time I queue up, I'll skip the gravy and maybe have a very small amount of meat - a taste really!

I'll have to discuss all of this with  my family MD again. Maybe I've finally gotten cause to see the Endocrinology MD (which we don't have in town...)

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This was a night were my usual motto of "micturition ergo sum" had to be supplemented with "vomito ergo sum".

"micturition ergo sum"

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