30 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage and a couple of cup of coffee...

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, corn, a roll and two glasses of DP.
The service has gotten better. I think this is a matter of the number or (Lions who attend going down by about 5 or 6 and the waitress has gotten used to us...)

?Dinner: I made meatloaf for lunch Thursday and tried a little bit. I put a lot of dried onion and "Italian Seasoning" and ground up garlic in it and a lot of oatmeal. The oatmeal soaked up most of the grease. After trying a sample, I realized I'd probably made a mistake.

Dinner proper was extra crispy chicken, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, a small piece of "corn on the cob" on a stick and a roll with honey (all from "The Rat") and a couple of glasses of water. I feared the combination of this and my snack would be a mistake. It was...

After dinner, I drank a "gin and tonic". I probably shouldn't have but I figured I had nothing to lose...

The Mistake Confirmed: About two hours after going to bed, I woke up with stomach juices bubbling up into my mouth. I immediately realized I was having a serious reaction to the grease in the food I'd eaten and that my best bet would be to go vomit. I didn't want. Instead, I went to
took a pee. (Always easy for me these days.) I kept waking up, rolling onto my right side (the opening to the stomach is on the left side) and kept trying to go back to sleep. It didn't work...

I quietly got out of bed, crept into the hall bathroom, very quietly shut the door before turning on the light. Then, I crouched low over the toilet hoping this would set off vomiting. No luck. I recently cleaned the toilet. So, I stuck my finger down my throat and vomited three times. Then,
thinking I still didn't feel quite right, it was finger in the throat time again for the fourth offering to "the Porcelain Goddess". After that, I felt better and went back to bed. (After flushing the toilet and washing my hands, of course. I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm uncivilized...

Then, I slept fine!

29 August 2006

Breakfast: Burger King SOS and a cup of coffee and a can D.P.

Lunch: Boot Hill Musuem restaunt for barby samwhich, fries and some of Kathie's onion rings plus a couple of glasses of DP.

Snack: a low carb fudge bar...

28 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage and coffee.

Lunch: McDonald's Club salad and a can of D.P.

Dinner: Applebys for "sizzling fehetias" (mixed chicken and steak), red rice, some motorezzo cheese sticks and a couple of glasses of ice water with lemon juice.

27 August 2006

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, well done fried bacon, ¹/₄ of a Sarrah Lee coffee cake and coffee.

Lunch: Two hot dogs and the left over hamberger paddy from yesterday and a DP or two...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Flavor Adventures Grilled Chicken and Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Chicken Breast with Rib Meat in a Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Sauce over Linguini Pasta with Broccoli and a 1.5 oz bag of Cheez-It and a can of DP...

26 August 2006

Breakfast: Creame of wheat, 2 slices of whole wheat toast and coffee.

Lunch: Went to Peppercorns: Had ¹/₂ of their one pounder hamberger (I set aside the 2^nd slab of fried hamberger and also french fries and a couple of glasses of Diet Pepsi (or so I was told...)

Dinner: Kathie went to the Boot Hill Museum chuck wagon dinner and brought covered plates of:

1. bar-b-que beef,
2. baked chunks of potatoes cooked with onins chunks,
3. creamed corn,
4. bisquit with honey,
5. apple cobbler and
6. a can of D.P.!

That was quite filling...

25 August 2006

Breakfast: Three sort of soft boiled eggs, two slices of whole wheat toast (with mayo for a sandwhich), a cup of coffee and a can DP...

24 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes and 2 sausage and cup of coffee.

Lunch: Dillions salad...

Snack: A couple of pieced fried chicken (wing and leg) and a piece (small piece) of cold corn on the cob.

Dinner: Boston Market Home Style Meals Meatload with Homestyle Mashed Potatoes and Gravy and a can DP. Then, I ate a small bowl of left over Byers Vinalla ice cream with a fudge sauce. I should not have...

Pre-Bed snack: Half a hot dog and a beer. This sounds like it should be bad for me yet the next morning, when I did my blood sugar test, I came in at 113! For me, this is quite good!

23 August 2006

Breakfast: Two fried eggs and a toasted English Muffin plus a cup of coffee and a DP. One half of the muffin had peanut butter on it.

Lunch: Large hamberger, fries and a couple of glasses of DP.

Dinner:

22 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, coffee.

Snack: Tomato juice.

Lunch: An Arby's Club salad with grilled chicken and a glass of DP. (When I first started eatting Arby's Club salads, I though they were great and couldn't get enuf of them. Now, unfortunately, I have gotten enough of them! One thing I can say for certain, they are better than McDonalds!

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Chicken Breast and Broccoli in Alfredo Sauce with Fettuccini Pasta and a (what else?) can of DP...

Pre-bed snack: An appple and some crackers...

No beer...

21 August 2006

Breakfast: Cream of wheat, 1 slice whole wheat toast, 1 baggle and cup of coffee...

Lunch: Leftover Prime Rib (mine and Kathie's of this past Saturday), small double baked potatoe and a very small piece of roll Oh, yes, two cans DP.

20 August 2006

Breakfast: The Hotel at Old Town (Wichita) provided a "free" breakfast. Actually, they raised the room rates by $30/night and we effectively paid $15 each for:

1. moist scrambled eggs,
2. sliced ham,
3. chopped up potatoes baked with onions (good stuff>,
4. orange juice and
5. coffee

There was also pasteries, which we didn't touch and some chopped up fruit that Kathie ate and which I did not eat...

There is a new hotel going up nearby. We're going to compare prices the next time we go to Wichita for the night. We really don't go to the Hotel at Old Town just to go there; we go there for the piano player, Patric. We would be going there and staying at the cheaper hotel and going there to listen to and visit with Patric...

19 August 2006

What I thought I remembered of the 19^th on the 21^st

Breakfast: McDonald's for pancakes and coffee (I think on the 21st)

Snack at the Pratt Dairy Queen (the McDonalds was "shut for remodeling") where we got glasses of DP and some snack chicken thingies...

Lunch: Lunch at Chicago something or another in Wichita where I had lazanna and a large Diet Pepsi.

Movie snack where I had two 32 oz draft beers (Budweiser, for God's sake!) and popcorn.

Dinner: At a nice steak house near the hotel, 16 oz Prime rib, two little double baked baked potatoes, salad with French dressing and Diet Pepsi.

Post dinner: Whilst listening to Patrick, a gin and tonic and a strawberry dahrehi and a tonic and lime (no gin).

I paid the price for this. Although we only ate half of our steaks and packed them in ice to take home (I finished them off on Monday 21 August 2006), I felt a bit queesy late. Combine a large meal with the booze and I kept waking up with stomach juices gurgling up. I slept very poorly...

What I actually ate. I found my written food diary and read this:

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes with 2¹/₂ sausages (I scored!) and a cup of coffee and a can of D.P.

I didn't write down the snack bought when we stopped to pee.

Lunch Lazana and salad and Diet Coke at "Old Chicago" in Wichita.

Movie Snack Two (2!) 32 oz Buds (Thisis a piss beer but the only apparently decent beer they had at the Old Town Warren threter) and half (give or take a ¹/₄) of a bit container of popcorn...

Dinner: At Whickey Creek: Salad and half of a well done 16 oz Prime Rib chunk, one of two twice baked potatoes and two glasses of Diet Coke.

At the Bar (with Patick)

1. Gin and Tonic
2. 2 Strawberry Dacheries
3. 1 tonic water with lime (but no gin)

I paid the price for this. Although we only ate half of our steaks and packed them in ice to take home (I finished them off on Monday 21 August 2006), I felt a bit queesy late. Combine a large meal with the booze and I kept waking up with stomach juices gurgling up. I slept very poorly...

18 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes with sausage, 2 cups of coffee.

Snack: A little bit of what is left of my birthday cake...

Lunch: We skipped salad today and went to Wendys. I had a double hamburger, baked potatoe withbutter and sour cream and a "Diet Coke" (I think it was...).

From the way I eat, you'd think I was healthy! It's hard to be a diabetic and eat right and exercise properly when I feel fine and haven't had any significant body damage. However, I go in for my "dilated eye exam" this coming Monday (24 August 2006) and that could be an "eye opening experience". I hope not...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Country Herb Chicken White Meat Chicken in Gravy with Roasted Potatoes, Vegetables and Cherry Crisp (I didn't touch the Cherry Crisp...) and a can of DP. (It was quite good!)

Pre-bedtime snack: a little left over summer sausage, crackers and small piece of my birthday cake...

16 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage plus a cup or two of coffee.
Meeting: A choclate coated donut and a cup of coffee.
Lunch: Lions at Casey's: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, a small bowl of cottage cheese with a wedge of tomatoe thrown on (I substituted for green beans...) and some Diet Pepsi. The waitress brought me a carafe of Diet Pepsi. This was the best service I've had at Casey's in a very long time...)
Snack: A couple of donuts at work. I felt like shit and thought it might have been a combination of low blood sugar and the heat and humidity. Regardless, the sugar "fix" "got me set right with the world". (Dire Straits?)
Dinner: Marie Callender's One Disk Classics Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Seasoned Garlic Bread and a can DP. It tasted quite good but I think I'll go with "Healthy Choice" tomorrow night...

15 August 2006

Breakfast: Left over oven roasted beef, potatoes, carrots and onions. Coffee and a DP.

Lunch: A McDonalds club salad with crispy chicken, 3 McNuggetts (the possibly chicken thingies) and part of a large Diet Coke...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast with Gravy/ Apple Cranberry Crisp/ Carrots/ Roasted Potatoes and a can of DP (The beef was overcooked and too tender, there were almost no potatoes and the carrots too crisp. The "Apple Cranberry Crisp" had an interesting flavour...)

Post Dinner: A large hot dog, micronuked and eatten with catsup and mustard and a Micleob {bp} Lager...

14 August 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, four slices whole wheat toast, coffee.

Lunch: 12 oz steak at Applebys, garlic mashed potatoes, steamed brocolli and a couple glasses of DP.

Desert: Choclate cake with choclate frosting and blue trim (it was, after all, my 55th birthday...)

Dinner: Boston Market Home Style Meals Meatload with Homestyle Mashed Potatoes & Gravy and a can DP...

13 August 2006

Happy Birthday Grandma Lil!!!

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat, a bananna, 2% milk, coffee and later, a slice of whole wheat bread with grape jelly and peanut butter. This was a serious mistake as it resulted in me having an upset stomach!

Lunch: 1 & ¹/₂ Ruben and a DP...

Dinner: Oven Roasted beef covered with olive oil, sliced onions, sliced potatoes and carrots. Then, my wife "drizzled" more olive oil on top of the veggie covered meat and some cheap cooking red wine. (I was washing my hands and she did helped me with this.)

12 August 2006

Breakfast: We have places to go so we went to McDonalds. I had the "Number 12", otherwise known as the "pancakes and sausage". Also had cup of too hot coffee.

Snack: A large bottle of DP (bought at a convience store when my wife had a guilt trip at me walking into this place and heading straight for the Men's Room; ah, the joys of "Having a Going Problem"...)

Lunch: At a restraunt in Elkhart, Kansas (the only one in town or so we were told!). Buffet with big slice of prime rib, piece of chicken (very nicely overcooked!), mashed potatoes with white gravy and cottage cheese (mashed potatoes "just ain't right without being mixed with some good cottage cheese, don't ya know"?), a couple of rolls with grape jelly and some salad aforehand. (If I had a drinking problem, I'd be talking of drinking heavily but I've got an eatting problem and that seems more socially acceptable and much harder to avoid than other substance abuse problems...)

Dinner: Kathie's baked chicken, rice pilof, aspargius and a DP.

After dinner, a single shot gin and tonic. I worry my wife has a drinking problem and she worries we've both got eatting problems...

We're both right, God Help Us!

11 August 2006

Breakfast: A pork chop, a small amount of fried potatoes and two fried eggs. Oh, yes, a cup of coffee and a DP...

Lunch: An Arby's chicken salad and a large order of Motirello sticks and a red sauce (which I split with my wife) and 2 cans of DP.

Dinner: A salad and water with most of a can of chicken/veggie soup. It should have been benign but my 2 hour post eatting blood sugar was 174! This is quite high.

I can tell myself that I took the metformin after eatting and I maybe should have taken it before eatting (ignore the recommendation that it never be taken on an empty stomach) or I can say I'd been feeling out of sort physically. This is true to a certain extent.

It was certainly a dismaying result...

I screwed up...

______Last night, we went to Montana Mike's for an early birthday party for me and because I've been working 5 am to 1 pm lately; this means I have to eat dinner before 6 pm and shortly after Kathie gets home from.

______I woke up several times from about an hour after I went to bed. I was burping up chunks of "something" and stomach juice. I guess this is GERD. Anyway, I probably could have stuck a finger down my throat but I wasn't willing to give into this urge. I woke uip feeling fine.

______My blood testr was on the high side, 151. Actually, this is exceptionally high, especially for a morning pre-breakfast, pre-medications test. I'd like to think it could be illness but I was fine aside from the GERD. I've got the vomiting into the mouth and every so often I'm chugging Pepto Bismol (which I call "Pink"). I take "me Pink" like a man: I chugg it and don't bother with that little measuring cup thingee...

Symptoms, Signs, and Complications
The most prominent symptom is heartburn, with or without regurgitation of gastric contents into the mouth. Complications of GERD include esophagitis (see Plate 20-4), esophageal stricture (see Plate 20-5), esophageal ulcer, and Barrett's metaplasia (see Plate 20-6). Esophagitis may cause odynophagia and even hemorrhage, which can be massive. Peptic stricture causes a gradually progressive dysphagia for solid foods. Peptic esophageal ulcers cause the same type of pain as gastric or duodenal ulcers but are usually localized to the xiphoid or high substernal region. They heal slowly, tend to recur, and usually leave a stricture on healing.

______So, I'll blame it on the GERD and not on overindulgence...

10 August 2006

Breakfast: A small piece of left over steak, a couple of small boiled potatoes, a lot of boiled brocolli flowers and some boiled carrots. (I've always liked a varient of the New England Boiled Dinner and this is one of my imitations...)

Lunch: We had a going away luncheon for a fellow leaving the office and a new hire. I had several barby'd chicken wings, a piece of some mystery meat (maybe a piece of pork?), salad and a couple of rolls. I brought in homemade choclate ice cream I'd made the day before (it had frozen as hard as a rock) and made homemade vinelli ice cream that morning. (It didn't harden up enuf and was still liquid at the centre.)

I left both containers of ice cream in the office freezer and expect to pick up the empty containers this coming Moanday night. Actually, I probably could pick them up today as I know who was working the day shift, evening shift, mid shift (AKA "graveyard") and again the day shift. Those lads will have not only eatten all the ice cream but will have washed the containers for me. However, I'll wash the containers when I get home because I've seen them wash dishes and their low standards of cleaniness would never have passed the Army Sergeants who taught me the virtues of cleaning dishes well...

A fine lot of munch mouths! Makes me proud I'm no longer in that "Brotherhood". (Actually, I still am but I have my little delusions and never make ice cream at home and don't dare buy it for I'll eat it...

Dinner: We went to Montana Mikes and I had the 16 oz steak, large "fully loaded" baked potatoe (I brought about ¹/₃ home as well as ¹/₂ of both my and my wife's rolls. I also had a Strawberry Margretti and a "Coors Origional" beer...

Here is one of my pet peeves: The piss pooor quality of draft beers

Montana Mikey's advertised a large scooner of draft beer. Well, my wife was going to drive home and since I'm working the night of my 55^th birthday (this coming Moanday), we decided to make this a substitue Birthday Bash. So, I asked the waitress what kind of beer they had on draft.

______"Bud lite, Coors lite and Amber Bock"
______"Is that all", I replied?
______"Well", I continued, "I don't drink lite because I don't think it's real beer! Do you have Miller Genuine Beer"?

______"We have Miller Lite."

______"He doesn't like lite beer", my wife interjected.

______"Do you have Michelob", I asked hopefully yet knowing I was doomed to hear:

______"We have Michelob Ultra.

______I may have shuttered and replied "Michelob Ultra isn't fit for human consumption.

______She proved to be a smart waitress as she replied: "I don't like it either and know some people who don't."

______"What else have you got?"

______She replied "Coors Origional" and that is what I ordered...

When Kathie and I were at OSU (that's Oregon and not Ohio or Oklahoma), the State of Oregon would not allow Coors to be sold in the state. A friend of ours went to Idaho and smuggled in several cases of Coors. He quickly sold it and we told each other how much we liked it.

I tried not to remember how I'd driven from Portland Oregon to Suitland Maryland in May 1974 as I drove my new car from my parent's house to where I was stationed (in the Navy). I stopped at Mountain Home Idaho and had a late dinner at the Enlisted Club. I couldn't understand why these "Zoomies" were putting down Coors and preferred "Budweiser" (the origional "piss" beer). I later found out when I could legally buy and drink Coors.

Actually, to be candid, Pissweiser -er- Budweiser really isn't that horrible of a beer. It's just too bland. Jax's Beer and Raineer were far worst. That Hawaiin' beer everybody had to have in the late 1970s was far, far worst. Let's not talk about "Amstil" (the Mediterrean version anyway).

9 August 2006

Breakfast: Big bowl of spoon sized shredded wheat and too much coffee.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, corn, roll and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi" (well, the second one was DP and I think the first was contaminated with "Dr. Pepper")

The service was great!

We had a new waitress...

Dinner: I think we must have had the default option of salad. I recall it was Mcdonald's "Asian" salad with crispy chicken and water. (I'm writing this late afternoon of 11 August 2006.)

8 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage (I'll have something - anything - else tomorrow!) and coffee.

Snack: Some of those Sunshine Cheeze-It Baked Snack Crakers and a DP.

Lunch: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (wity Gravy, Carrots, Roasted Potatoes and Apple Raisin Crisp).

I've had a lot of "Healthy Choice" meals and other "healthy" type meals lately; I think I'll go with unhealthy tonight...

Snack: A small left over piece of meat pizza and a one slice of whole wheat bread with peanut and grape jelly dunked in a coffee cup of choclate milk...

Dinner: Sirloin Steak, boiled potatoes and brocolli and cold bottled water to drink.

7 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, coffee.

Snack: Crackers and a DP...

Lunch: Healthy CHoice Sweet BOurbon Steak beef in bourbon Sauce / peach crisp / garlic mashed potatoes / broccoli and carrot medley

Dinner: Dillons' salad and water and a big spoon of peanut butter and a slightly smaller spoon of grape jelly. After testing my blood, a little meat pizza and a beer (Mic Lager)

6 August 2006

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, sausage and pork gravy and coffee...

Lunch: Arby double hamberger, baked potatoe and a Diet something...

Dinner: Arby's salad and a glass of water.

5 August 2006

Breakfast: Scram bled eggs, fried potatoes, sausage gravy and bisquit and bisquit with grape jelly and coffee.

Lunch: Appleby for 12 oz steak, garlic mashed potatoes, steamed brocolli and a couple glasses of DP.

Dinner: Very small salad (we joked about the smallness of it!), lartge piece of chicen fried chicken, baked potatoes and various veggies.

Desert: very nice choclate cake with rich choclate frosting!

4 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage and coffee.

Lunch: Wendy's double burger and baked potatoe and a Diet something or another...

Dinner: Small salad, chicken fried steak and brown gravy, mashed potatoes, green shit -er- green beans (which I ignored) and water.

On McDonalds, a diatribe abouit the "MaKey Dees" in "my" town...

A scree about McDonalds in two part disharmony!

Part 1: 28 July 2006
______My wife went to the local McDonald. She went to the drive up and ordered:
______"One Asian salad with broiled chicken and one club salad with crispy chicken."
______The clerk in the window with the headset replied "did you say two Asian salads, one with crispy chicken and one with broiled?"
______"No! I said one Asian salad with broiled chicken and one Club salad with crispy chicken!"
______"Thank you, please pull up to the next window."
______She got home and I got the two salads out. The highly competient staff at McDonals had given her two Asian salads. That's fine for her, she likes the green crap they put on those Oriental -er- Asian salads. I don't!
______She was all upset and appologizing and I was telling her "it isn't your fault! They fucked up at McDonalds! Anyway, next time we go to the Wyatt Earp McDonalds, we're going inside! Not that that helps much; the last time I ordered "Asian salad with broiled chicken and Club salad with crispy chicken" they screwed it up and I ended up having to tell the "crew" a couple of times what I wanted...

Let's see if matters have improved and if "management" has imposed any "quality control".

Part 2: 3 August 2006:

______I went to McDonalds today and ordered "one Asian salad with grilled chicken to go, one Club salad with crispy chicken to go, medium order of "McNuggetts" (are they chicken?), a medium Diet Coke with ice and a medium Diet Coke without ice".
______Thinking of how my wife had gone through the drive in window last week, made the same order (save for the McNuggets) and got home to discover she’d been given two "Asian" salads, I took the two salads out of the plastic bag.
______They had given me two Club Salads.
______I said "I ordered an Oriental salad and a Club salad. I got two Clubs."
______The check out girl (young woman actually) came over, took the "Asian" salad back and asked "did the Asian salad have the broiled chicken".
______"Yes".
______She brought me over the proper salad and then we had a discussion of the available salad dressings. Until I’d asked about the salad dressings, there had been no mention of salad dressings and there were none in the plastic bag. I got two salad dressings.
______Then, I drove to my wife’s office and told her I’d been late because of the fuckup at McDonalds.
______She noticed that her salad didn’t have the peanuts it was supposed to come with...
______Are they trying to drive us to Arbys or Wendys or Burger King for salads?
______They are succeeding!!!

My retorical question: Let's see if matters have improved and if "management" has imposed any "quality control".

It doesn't look like they have. Maybe they just don't know they've got problems?

3 August 006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes and sausage, a DP and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: McDonalds club salad and a "Diet Coke". The service sucked...

?______I went to McDonalds today and ordered “one Asian salad with grilled chicken to go, one Club salad with crispy chicken to go, medium order of “McNuggetts” (are they chicken?), a medium Diet Coke with ice and a medium Diet Coke without ice”.
______Thinking of how my wife had gone through the drive in window last week, made the same order (save for the Mc-Nuggets) and got home to discover she’d been given two “Asian” salads, I took the two salads out of the plastic bag.
______They had given me two Club Salads.
______I said “I ordered an Oriental salad and a Club salad. I got two Clubs.”
______The check out girl (young woman actually) came over, took the “Asian” salad back and asked “did the Asian salad have the broiled chicken”.
______“Yes”.
______She brought me over the proper salad and then we had a discussion of the available salad dressings. Until I’d asked about the salad dressings, there had been no mention of salad dressings and there were none in the plastic bag. I got two salad
dressings.
______Then, I drove to my wife’s office and told her I’d been late because of the fuckup at McDonalds.
______She noticed that her salad didn’t have the peanuts it was supposed to come with...
______Are they trying to drive us to Arbys or Wendys or Burger King for salads?
______They are succeeding!!!

2 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage and a DP (After seeing what came out of the coffee pot when it was cleaned and soaped with vinigar yesterday, I'm not inclined to drink any coffee! I heard one story that some of the "black dots" were moving...)

Snack: A small handful of peanuts from the office machine. They were good and stale!

Lunch: Pork chop, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, cottage cheese and a couple glasses of DP.

Snack: I shouldn't have but I had some kind of food craving. I bought some grape jelly when I bought a dozen eggs (after buying minute stake). Thisis for breakfast tomorrow. I wish I didn't have the food cravings but I think it is a response to the hot and humid weather. I also wish they wuld end...

Dinner: (at the rodeo) This was a long winded affair...

First, they had the $1 hamberger, chips, Pepsi (no Diet Pepsi) and small (1/2 cup size) vinella ice cream.

Then, we went to a mexican place and I had a very small tacco. Later, I had another of these.

There is this little Mexicane ?Restaurant on South 2^nd Street. I go past it every night when I'm coming home late. There is this roach coach just outside of a long single wide prefad "house". They do the cooling in this building. They make some nice Mexican food. For years when I dove past it, I'd see Mexican families having dinner there and told myself that i'd nver stop and eat there. I figured it would not be a place big on cleaniness. I had some last night and liked it. I am probably wrong about the cleaniness issue; the city is pretty good with doing cleaniness surveys.

the picture of me...

Me skinny and age 25...

1 August 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage and a couple of cups of coffee.

Lunch: Boston Market Home Style Meals - Meatloaf with Homestyle Mashed Potatoes & Gravy and 2 cans DP.

Snack: Those crackers and a DP...

31 July 2006

Breakfast: Oatmeal with a toasted baggle and 2 or 3 cups of coffee...

Lunch: Left over spegetti and a couple of DP.

Dinner:

30 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl of spoon sized shredded wheat, toasted baggle and cup of coffee.

Lunch: The diet dinner POT ROAST...

Dinner: Homemade spegetti sauce, noodles and a glass of water. Later, I had a gin and tonic...

29 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima (Great Starts Meal) Pancakes & Sausage plus two cups of Great coffee! (OK, so I brewed it...)

Folgers
_____Coffee House Series
__________100% Columbian
_______________"Med Dark" (ground coffee)

Lunch: Chef Boyardee "Spaghetti & Meatballs" in Tomato Sauce plus 1 and a ¹/₂ peanut butter samwhichs and a bottle of DP...

Dinner: Homemade spaghetti sauce (hamburger, garlic and tomato sauce), spaghetti noodles and a bottle of Mic Lager. The surprising thing is that my blood sugar 2 hours later was only 143!

choclate ice cream?

1/2 cup sugar

1/3 cup cocoa

3 tbsp corn starch

2 cups milk or light cream

1/2 cup choclate chips

1 tsp vinelli

If this really is an ice cream recipie, then those experimenting with it would have put the ingredients into the proper mixer and make it.

28 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl of oatmeal (no milk) with splenda and brown sugar, a toasted English Muffin and a couple of small rolls (left over from the office luncheon of yesterday - I didn't attend since I didn't work yesterday) and a cup or two of coffee.

Lunch: South Beach Diet^™ Caprese Style Chicken with Broccoli (Breast Srips with rib meat in a Marinara Sauce with ricotta sand mozzarella, served with broccoli)

Dinner: [projected to be a salad...]

and so it was! A salad, that is...

My wife went to the local McDonald. She went to the drive up and ordered:

"One Asian salad with broiled chicken and one club salad with crispy chicken."

The clerk replied "did you say two Asian salads, one with crispy chicken and one with broiled?" "

No! I said one Asian salad with broiled chicken and one Club salad with crispy chicken!"

"Thank you, please pull up to the next window."

She got home and I got the two salads out. The highly competient staff at McDonals had given her two Asian salads. That's fine for her, she likes the green crap they put on those Oriental -er- Asian salads. I don't!

She was all upset and appologizing and I was telling her "it isn't your fault! They fucked up at McDonalds! Anyway, next time we go to the Wyat Earp McDonalds, we're going inside! Not that that helps much; the last time I ordered "Asian salad with broiled chicken and Club salad with crispy chicken" they screwed it up and I ended up having to tell the "crew" a couple of times what I wanted...

Rant off...

27 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, coffee.

Lunch: Dillions for salad and a DP...

Dinner: Crockpotted Beef Strogneoff and a glass of water and a Mic and later, a gin and tonic...

26 July 2006

Breakfast: Cream of wheat, two slices of whole wheat toast with mar-jar-in and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: Casey's Cowtown with the Lions: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, corn and a roll. I had a glass of DP with lunch and had to wait so long for the refill that the little bits of chicken and potatoe and roll I was hoarding were quite cold by the time our waitress managed to get around to bringing me the 2^nd glass. I'm thinking of switching to ice water in the future since I can always refill from the flash on the table. Aside from that, the service was quite adequate. (Can you say "damnation by faint praise? Of course you can!")

Dinner: Apllebes for the chicken/steak faheti combo with rice and cheese and a very decadent cupcake, vinilla ice cream and rich choclate sauce. I had a glass of ice water with lots of lemons squeezed into the water and made the sacriface of drinking the "mistake"...

Applebys, where we were placed at a table without a waitress. It's rare that Applebys has service worst than Casey's but there you have it! Atg least at Casey's, we had a waitress who came around. We flagged down a waitress who took our food and drink orders. Then, the "assigned" waitress showed up. The food menu went through but the drink order was completely screwed up. They brought the wrong kind of wine to Kathie but rather than return it, I made the sacriface of drinking it myself...

It was a glass of Mountain Home White Zin (my favourite!)

It's sad when the service at Casey's is better than the service at Applebys...

The Guam Hilton recipies for "Long Island Ice Tea" and "Mudslide"

______I wrote the Guam Hilton and asked about their recipies. I don't have a copy of the letter I sent but I do have their lovely reply. This can be read at: http://showcase.netins.net/web/chargerhorse/Hilton1991.pdf
______Here are two other recipies, from Guam, for the same two drinks:
http://users.pld.com/mwbell/recipies.htm
______I'll have to "gin up" a pdf version of this file and save it and reference and I'll probably just "cut and paste" the actual recipies...

25 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, a cup of coffee and a DP.

Lunch: A McDonald's club salad and part of a six-piece of McChicken "nuggets" and a medium "Diet Coke".

24 July 2006

Breakfast: We went out...two eggs over medium, hash browns, whole wheat toast with grape jelly and two-three cups of coffee and a glass of water.

Lunch: Two large hotdogs on two slices of whole wheat bread and a DP.

Post Blood donation "snack": A small bowl of watered down potatoe soup and several carrots and a couple of cream filled cookie thingies. Also, a cup of weak iced tea and a couple of cups of water.

Snack: Some folks came in to work on our radar (WSR-88D) and brought in fresh Krispi Kreme donuts. I can now see why folks love those fuckers: when fresh they are irrestable and seem to meld in my mouth. Not exactly what a diabetic needs to be eatting. However, four of these fuckers proved to be completely irrestable.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (with Gravy, Carrots, Roasted Potatoes and Apple Raisin Crisp). They seem to have forgotten the "Raisins" and I can only "THANK YOU!" and hope this is a trend!

Pre-Bed snack: this and that and nothing much of anything...no booze...

a recipie for "Homemade Bailey's Irish Cream"

Homemade Bailey's Irish Cream as copied from Irish-recipies

Ingredients:

1 pint half and half
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup Irish whiskey (Canadian Club works too)
2 tblsp. chocolate syrup
dash cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla

In blender, combine all the ingredients. Blend until mixed well,
serve cold. Stores up to two weeks in the fridge.

I'm going to try this but the notion of raw eggs bothers me. I think I'll go with "egg beaters" instead.

23 July 2006

Breakfast: Owens^{® "}Sausage Gravy & Biscuits" (White Gravy with Pork Sausage & 2 Biscuits) and a can of DP. (I had initially tried going to McDonald's but the drive up line extended damn near to the road. I then drove around and thought of parking. However, the parking lot was quite full and more customers were entering. I decided "fuck this shit" {sort of} and drove over to Bugger -er- Burger King. There wasn't much of a line but they're doing road destruction -er- re-engineering and it simply was too much of a hassle to go in...

I bought the Owens barf-on-a-biscuit at the 14^th Street Dillions...)

Lunch:

Dinner:

22 July 2006

Breakfast: A piece of very well cooked pork chop, two fried eggs, two slices of whole wheat toast, a cup of coffee (and knowing me) probably a DP. (I'm writing this on the 23^rd and don't recall for certain if I actually drank a DP...)

Lunch: Left over beef/chicken/pork chop stew over mashed potatoes and brocolli flowers and two cans DP.

Dinner: Marie Callender's Complete Dinner Country Fried Chicken & Gravy White Meat Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Corn of the Cob plus a DP...

Snack: Toppers dipped into peanut butter...

21 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamama pancakes and sausage, two cups of coffee and a DP.

Lunch: Casey's Cown Town: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, small bowl of cottage cheese and two glasses Diet Pepsi...

Dinner: The "French" beef and chicken and pork stew over store bought mashed potatoes and a Miller Genuine Draft beer.

20 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl oatmeal and cup of coffee.

Lunch: Healthy Choice chicken brocolli Alfredo and a DP. (chicken breast and brocolli in Alfredo sauce with Fettuccini Pasta)

Dinner: Left over boiled chicken on left over rice pilof, boiled brocolli, water.

19 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamama pancakes and sausage, two cups of coffee and a DP.

Lunch: Casey's Cown Town: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, small bowl of cottage cheese and two glasses Diet Pepsi...

Dinner: Dillon's Salad and Water....

18 July 2006

Breakfast: Bitesize shredded wheat, a bananna, slice of whole wheat toast with peanut butter and a cup of coffee and a DP.

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Lunch: At this place in Hays, Kansas. I had mystery meat
and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves and two glasses of
water.

Dinner: Dillion's salad and a glass of water.

Lunch and Dinner are in odd colours since I didn't write down
what I'd had and couldn't remember until I remembered where
I'd been that day. The calander was to remind me of the date..

17 July 2006

Breakfast: Cream of wheat, two slices whole wheat toast, coffee...

Lunch: McDonald's salad and DP...

Dinner: Boneless skinless chicken boiled in soy sauce and water flavoured with ginger root, onion, garlic and pepper over rice pilof and with brocolli flowers. A glass or two of water...

15 July 2006

Breakfast: Two eggs scrambled/fried, bacon, a DP and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: One half a MMMMMM (Montana Mike's Mighty Meat Meal done Medium): That is, about half of a 20 oz steak, a "loaded" baked potatoe, biggg roll and salad.

Desert: A moderate and then a small piece of Kathie's birthday cake.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Flavor Adventures^TM Grilled Chicken Marianara (Chicken Breast in Marinara Sauce over Pasta with Broccoli)

14 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl of bite sized shredded wheat, baggle with peanut butter and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: A Wendy's chicken salad and a baked potatoe with cheese and a Diet Coke(?)

Dinner: Healthy Choice Mesquite Chicken BBQ (White Meat Chicken with BBQ Sauce, Vegetables and Roasted Red Skin Potatoes and a can of D.P.

12 July 2006

Breakfast: Left over "French Stew" and a DP.

Lunch: Large hamberger with bacon stripes, large French Fries and 2 glasses DP at Caseys. The service was fairly good and for Casey's, excellent!

Dinner: Boston (Home Style Meals) Market Lasagna with Meat Sauce (Layered with Ricotta & MOzzarella Cheese) plus those crackers. Oh, yeah, I also had a can DP...

Snack: A little bit of the left over stew, half a baggle and a beer...

11 July 2006

Breakfast: the French Stew over canned, sliced, potatoes and a can DP.

Lunch: An Arby's salad and DP...

Snack: the last several sugar covered mini-donuts and coffee (I've had a sugar craving all afternoon since eating this...)

Dinner: A Lean Cuisine cheese lasagna florentine bake with marinara sauce, mozzarello, ricotta and romano cheeses and a can DP.

Snack: some crackers, peanut butter and a Michelob Lager...

Kathie's chicken in soy...

Kathie took some chicken thighs and removed the skin. Then, she put this in a large pan, put in maybe 2 cups of soy sauce and covered the chicken with water. She took a piece of ginger root and chopped up maybe ¹/₃ cup of the ginger root. She also added some sesime seeds and several tablespoons of chopped up garlic.

This was brought to a boil for seveal minutes, covered and allow to boil for several minutes and then simmered for about an hour. After that, we brought the liquid to a boil for several more minutes.

You can buy the ginger root at any good Oriental -er- "Asian" food store.

10 July 2006

Breakfast: Left over boiled chicken, rice pilof, two DP and a cup of coffee...

Lunch: A McDonald's deep fat fried chicken salad, a Diet Coke.

Snack: some dark choclate with low cal whipped creame...

Dinner: Something at Applebys (our plan, anyway...)
what I actually had...

Dinner: Applebys for a steak, baked potatoe and steamed brocolli flowers plus two glasses DP.

Snack: A can Michelob Lager...

9 May 2006

Breakfast: Hitching Post: Chicken fried steak, two eggs over medium, fried potatoes and coffee.

Lunch: Two hambergers, ships and 2 DP...

Dinner: salad and a DP.

8 July 2006

Breakfast: Bacon, two fried eggs over easy, two slices of whole wheat toast and coffee.

Lunch: Wendy's double hamberger, baken ptoatoe with butter, chives and sour cream, DIet Pepsi.

Dinner: Kathie's chicken cooked in soy sauce and water seasoned with ginger root and sessime seeds and garlic over her rice pilof and a gin and tonic.

Post dinner: Another gin and tonic and probably yet a third. Alchohol isn't a carb and so alcohol isn't as bad for me as I used to think; nonethe less, my fahter felt the same and the diabetics heklped kill him...)

7 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl of cream of wheat, two slices whole wheat bread and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: At the Boot Hill Museum restraunt: a very nicely done roast beef samwhich with barby sauce, french fries and a large glass of DP...

Snack: Some no-fat/no-sugar cooked vinalli pudding.

Dinner: Swedish Meatballs withi pasta in a savory gravy (it was good but I'm not sure I'd call it "savory"...)

my favourite snack...

6 July 2006

Breakfast: Bowl of spoon sized shredded wheat, two slices of whole wheat toast with peanut butter, cup of coffee.

Lunch: Salad from the 14st Dillions...

Snack: Half a serving of cooked no fat/no sugar vinelli pudding.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Sweet and Sour Chicken (Battered Chicken Breast Chunks with Sauce, Rice, and Brocolli) plus a Sunshine CHEEZE-IT Baked Snack Crackers "contains 100% REAL CHEESE (I'd hate to try the "unreal" cheese; actually, I already have! That's what they call "processed" cheese...)

5 July 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes, sausage and a cup of coffee...

Lunch: At Casey's: a large hamberger, with strips of bacon, french fries and two Diet Pepsis. (Unlike last week, the first glass actually tasted like a Diet Pepsi. Unfortunately, the waitress is a bit overworked and I had to remind her of my free refill twice; at Montana Mike's, a fresh glass would have been brought out before I'd finished my first glass. Mike Casey has still got a continuing problem with his "wait staff"...)

Snack: I finished off the rest of my "no fat/no sugar" cooked choclate pudding.

Dinner: Boiled rice, can of cream of chicken soup, big can of cooked chicken, shredded cheese and water added. With dinner, I had oyster crackers. I ate about 7:25 (roughly 7.5 hours after eatting lunch) and this was a mistake. I ate too much and had an upset stomach for most of the evening...

Tomorrow night I'm taking a "Healthy Choice" meal...

Independence Day 2006

Breakfast: Left over Roast Beef, potatoes and gravy. 1 DP and a cup of coffee...

Lunch: Cooked the two pork chops bought last week (finally!), some of Kathie's rice pilof, two DP and some homemade "no fat/no sugar cooked choclate pudding".

Dinner: Healthy Choice Flavor Adventures Creamy Dill Salmon (Wild Salmon Fillet SLices in a Creamy Dill Sauce over Pasta with Broccoli). Quite good actually...

Snack: A large hot dog (katchup and mustard added) and a Michelob Lager

3 July 2006

Breakfasts: Melon and an egg salad sandwich made with two (sort of) soft boiled eggs and two slices of wheat bread (also, low cal Mayo)

Lunch: An Arby's Southwest Salad, half a large order of Mozzarella sticks and a Diet Pepsi.

Snack: About half of the no sugar, no fat cooked chocolate pudding I made yesterday...

Dinner: A Healthy Choice Chicken Broccoli Alfredo (Chicken Breast and Broccoli in ALfredo Sauce with Fettuccini Pasta)

Abbey Ale (Those monks were true sea lawyers!!!

Abbey Ale

A strong beer brewed traditionally by Belgian abbeys for the brothers to enjoy as "liquid bread" during their Lenten fasting. Bless them.

This copied from the "Samuel Adams" webpage section entitled "Encyclopedia of Beer". This isn’t plagiarism since I listed my source...

Besides, I don’t think I’ll get caught!

2 July 2006

Breakfast: An Aunt Jaima pancakes, sausage, a cup of coffee and a glass of Campbell's Tomatoe juice.

1 July 2006

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast!

This is:

1. well cooked bacon,
2. scrambled eggs!
3. 2 slices of toast (made into a bacon samwhich and
4. some pan fried frozen shredded potatoes (I did this and it rather sucked...

Lunch: A double hamberger, baked potatoe with butter, sour cream and chives and a glass of Diet Coke (at Wendy's of course...)

Dinner: Kathie's baked boneless, skinned chicken with her rice pilof and a glass of water.

Post Dinner: I had two gin and tonic...

This was a mistake. I kept waking up feeling like I was going to throw up but I didn't qutie get sick enuf to do so...

30 June 2006

Breakfast: Shredded wheat (bite sized), a banana, 2% milk and coffee.

Lunch: Wendys: A double hamberger, baked potatoe with sour cream and butter (but they saved me from the horror of butter by not putting any on the baked potatoe) and a Diet Pepsi...

Dinner: 14th Street Dillion's salad and part of a batch of "no sugar, no fat" cooked choclate pudding (to which I'd added some dark choclate chips)

29 June 2006

Breakfast: left over spegetti, with my homemade sauce, 2 DP.

Lunch: Three bar-b-qued hot dogs, some sour kraut, my home made ice cream (vanillla and choclate) with Larry Ruthi's choclate sauce.

Dinner: At Applebees: Beef and Chicken on those Mexican pancakes, red rice, 2 glasses Diet Pepsi and a nice soup before hand.

Pink (again...)

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28 June 2006

Breakfast: big bowl cream of wheat, 2 slices dry whole wheat toast and aup of coffee.

Snack: Another bag of cheese crackers and a DP...

Lunch: Chicken Fried Chicken with white gravy, scoup of mashed potatoes also with white gravy, corn and a couple of DP.

Dinner:

Pink!

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24 June 2006

Sampling: I made some home made choclate ice cream last night. The recipie was taken from something I copied off the internet. I lost the actual recipie and kind of invented/remembered the recipie...

Breakfast: Lean Cuisine lemongrass chicken (roasted chicken tenderloins in lemongrass-coconut sauce, brown rice and vegeatbles (I wasn't bothered by the "coconut", which I didn't know about until I typed in this note...)

Snack: Cheese-its and most of a DP.

Lunch: Healthy Choice Chicken Parmigiana Breaded Chicken Breast with Tomato Sauce and Cheese, Fettuccini Pasta and Broccoli Quite good!

23 June 2006

Breakfast: Lean Cuisine Swedish Meatballs with pasta in a savory gravy and a DP and a cup of coffee...

Snack: Three banannas (not too ripe), a DP and another cup of coffee.Lunch: At Wendy's: Half pound "classic" hamberger, with baked potatoe, Diet Coke.

Dinner: A salad from 14th Street Dillions and water. My blood sugar was 116 two hours after I finished eating so I guess these salads are good for me. I'm just getting so tired of eatting them...

22 June 2006

Breakfast: Two big hotdogs boiled with white hominy and two DP. It tasted good going down and definitely settled in and let me know it was there for the rest of the morning...

Lunch: At the Boot Hill Museum dining room: a briskey samwhich, fries and a Diet Pepsi. It was quite good...

Dinner: A "14th Street Dillions" salad my wife made and a bottle of "Miller Genuine Draft" (cold filtered) beer. None of that Pisswiser^* or Coors and definitely none of that "lite beer" crap!!!
^{* How could a company which makes the magnificant Michelob create Pissweister -er- Budweiser and the perverted "Michelob Ultra"???}

21 June 2006

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat, two banannas, artifical sweetner, 2% milk and coffee.

Snack: A bag of those 50¢ crackers from the machine in the office "kitchen".

Lunch: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, roll and cottage cheese. The waitress said they had corn for the veggie so I ordered the CFC; they had green beans. I asked her to replace the green beans with cottage cheese; she gave the plate to another diner and brought me what I wanted. She was a good waitress, who provided Good Service! I told her this in front of Mike Casey's office manager (who was working the till).

20 June 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes, low cal syrup and low cal margarine and a couple of cups coffee...

Lunch: "Stouffer's LeanCuisine baked chicken chicken tenerloins with cornbread stuffing & whipped potatoes" I liked it. Too bad I was hungry again less than 10 minutes after finishing. I'll just have to distract myself...

Dinner: Three small Pan fried sound steaks (I picked on appearance and the price reduction from just over ^$8 to just over ^$5 - my wife said "you got very tender meat". It was an accident...), boiled corn, boiled carrots and here we split: Kathie had the left over rice pilof and I had the left over "store bought" mashed potatoes. We both liked ouor choices. My drink of choice was cold water...

I had bought some melons for desert but neither of us "had enough room" for them. So, we skipped it...

Two hours after finishing eating, I tested my blood sugar level: it was 174. This is high but not too high given I'd eaten corn and mashed potatoes. A confirmaton this wasn't too high is the simple fact I slept through the night without having to get up even once to pea. Since post-bedtime urination is natures way of dumping excess sugar, I can only conclude the carrots and steak trumped the corn and mashed potatoes (if that is possible...) !

19 June 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, 2 pieces of dry toast and coffe (several cups...)
Lunch: homemade glop: leftover rice pilof, canned chicken, brocolli flowers and DP.

Lunch: Unnoted...

Dinner: salad (good for me), various toppings (not so good for me) and no sugar cooked Choclate Pudding (sort of good for me) with choclate chips - many choclate chips - add (not so good for me). So, how did I do scorewise?

ADDENDUM or is it answer written on the 20th: Hummm, got a 121 on the blood sugar reading the next morning after a 13 (or so) hour fast.

Ouch!!! On the one hand, this isn't going to help on the November 2006 A1C test but on the other hand, that is five (5!) months from now and plenty of time for me to be good...

18 June 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamama pancakes and sausage and a DP (we were still out of coffee at work).

Snack: Another bag of CHEEZE-ITs and my second (2^nd cup of coffee. (One of the two people with the key to the "coffee locker" was working and broke out a fresh can off ground coffee!)

Lunch: Healthy Choice Sweet Bourbon Steak Cooked Beef Strips in Bourbon Sauce, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables and Peach Dessert (quite good!)

Snack: A microwaved slice of bullona, with mayo on it and a DP.

17 June 2006

Snack: A small piece of last night's roast beef. It tasted "OK". Last night, I pressure cooked/boiled a ^$9.09 roast. It didn't fully cook by dinner time (which was my fault) so I left it in the pressure cooker for another couple of hours; I wanted to get it well cooked! I asked "the wife" to put it away when it had fully cooled off and then had to go to bed around 8:30 pm (I get up at 4:15 am). She woke me up around 1:30 am and when she got back from the toilet I asked her "did you put the roast away?" Her reply was "oops! and then she trundled off to put the roast in the refrigerator. She was a little pissed that I was pissed off at her for forgetting this.

I told her I wasn't anger but I guess I still am...

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, some low sugar syrup and margarine and a DP. :(Couldn't have any coffee as we're out; one person who could resupply is in Topeka and the other has today off but will be in tomorrow morning...) Maybe I'll be reduced to stealing a bag of black tea from an old box in the office kitchen...

Snack#2: I'm hungry; I'm going to have a Sunshine CHEEZ-IT Baked Snack Crackers.

Lunch: Applebys where I had the 9 oz sirlon steak, garlic mashed potatoes, somewhat crispy boiled brocolli flowers (with a hint of cheese and crotons on them) and glasses of Diet Pepsi. Since this was a date - and meant to be a pleasant occasion! - I ordered a desert for Kathie and me. She said she didn't want any but I've only known her for 31 years and figured she like it.

She did...
Let's see, how would I compare this "chain" with the "hometown made restraunt owned and operated by a 'local boy'?"

1. The food was comparable but
2. the service was much better!

Based on that, you can see why my wife said about Casey's "we won't be going back there for dinner for a while!" Amen to that!

I wrote a bit of a diabribe about the service last time we were there...

Dinner: We went to the Pratt Lions Club 85^th Anniversary. The meal was roast beef, bar-b-qued beef, cheedar cheese mashed potatoes with chunks, a hamberger bun and choclate cake with choclate frosting. It was really quite good!

As an aside: I believe it was eating the pieces of "bad" roast beef that gave me a serious case of diarehia (literally the Hershey drips) and I'm going to wait a few days before discretely dumping the left over roast beef under the trees in the neighbor's yard. (It is a vacant house.) It might cause trouble for the neighborhood stray dog's but it seems better than shit canning or dropping it through the sink garbage shredder...

16 June 2006

Breakfast: Cream of Wheat and 2 cups of coffee.
___Snack: Handful of stale cashews.
___Lunch: Healthy Choice Chicken Brocolli Alfredo Chicken Breast and Broccoli in Alfredo Sauce with Fettuccini Pasta
__Dinner: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and boiled brocolli flowers. Water?

I worked 2.5 hours overtime so I didn't get away from the office until 3:30 pm! This meant that the roast I bought from Kerby's Beef was frozen. So, when I got home, I put it in the microwave to thaw. (I set it for 20% for 33 minutes 33 seconds) and left to do some running around. "Running around" meant taking 2 books and a music DVD (Gershwin music) back to the library and then go to the 14th Street Dillions for premade mashed potatoes, brocolli and something to take for lunch tomorrow. (I had forgotten that I still have a Healthy Choice TV in the freezer). Going to the library turned out to be better than I thought!

The book I thought was "intra-libtrary loan" was actually one the library had bought! I was allowed to renew it!

I decided I needed some nice soft and easy to listen to music: I checked out "The Best of Alice Cooper"! Ok, so it's not "easy listening" but then I'm not in the mood for easy listening...

Finally! I've got a copy of "Official Star Trek Cooking Manual"!

Back in 1978, I bought a copy of the OFFICIAL STAR TREK™ Cooking Manual. Then, a college friend visited (in the mid 1980s) and we haven't seen the book since...

So, I checked it out via intra-library loan. The only library that seems to have this book is the Klamath Falls, Oregon, library. I know because I checked it out three times. I tried buying a copy of this book but the cheapest I could find was a used book in the $40 - $50 range. I didn't buy it then...

Since then, the general range of prices seems to be in the $80+ range. I didn't buy...

Fortunately, I had left a "email me when the book arrives" notice with Powell's Books of Portland. I read the email the day after it was sent and bought that copy immediately. Boy, am I happy!

My copy cost me just under $15 and the postage was about $3⁵⁰. No, I didn't pay Kansas state sales tax; I bought this book from an Oregon "vendor". It seems to me that since I have to pay sales tax when I buy in Kansas, it is only fair that I pay the sales tax levied at the point of sale. The point of sale was not in Kansas...

15 June 2006

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat with 2% milk and Splenda.

Snack: A Bar S Beef Jumbo Jumbos - a quarter pound hot dog - with ketchup and mustard and a DP.

Lunch: From Sonic, a hamberger, fries and a Diet Pepsi. After I got home, I ate a very small amount of the choclate pudding I cooked up yesterday.

Dinner: Salad and maybe a ¹/₂ cup of left over homemade choclate pudding. It was fine with milk and some vinilla extract added...

choclate pudding

I found a Chocolate Pudding recipe in a cookbook I browsed through at Hastings. I modified this recipe to:

1/4 cup sugar
1/6 cup cocoa
1.5 tablespoons flour (I didn't have any corn starch)
1 cup 2% milk (I didn't have any regular milk or light cream)
1/4 cup chocolate chips (actually I put in a handful of dark
chocolate chips)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract (I actually "measured" this by eye
and don't know how much went in...

I mixed the solid ingredients and added half the milk. Whilst whisking briskly, I warmed this mixture on the stove and finally added the rest of the milk. When it started boiling, I poured in the chocolate chips and stirred well, letting the pudding cook for a minute or so. Then, it was let the pudding cool off.

It is a somewhat bitter pudding and not like the commercial (mix) version. I suspect it'll be an acquired taste...

14 June 2006 (Casey's Cowtown times Two!)

Breakfast: The last of the left over spegethi and a DP and a cup of coffee.

Office Meeting: A cup of very bad coffee and three (over the course of the morning) sugar coated donuts (my boss advertised them as "dognuts")

Lunch: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, corn and a couple of Diet Pepsis at Casey's Cowtown...

Dinner: We went to Casey's Cowtown for dinner; we had decided not to go to Montana Mike's or Arby's. I'm thinking this was a mistake! The food was good but the kitchen service sucked!

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We were seated with no problem. The waitress seemed very young and very new to waiting and didn't seem to know what she was doing. Kathie asked for a wine list and the waitress trundled off to get it. I looked towards where she'd gone and looked at Kathie and said in a wry voice "I guess I'll ask for water when she returns."
______The girl got back and gave Kathie the wine list; Kathie had changed her mind and asked for a "frozen Margarietta". The girl nodded and left. We began waiting...
______After about five (5!) minutes, Kathie flagged down a different waitress and asked about her frozen Margarietta. This woman (yes, a competient woman!) brought the frozen Margarietta back in under two minutes.
______Our waitress returned and asked what I wanted. I asked for ice water with leomn juice and she said she could bring ice water with a couple of chunkds of lemon. It was only a couple of minutes before she brought our water.
______We ordered dinner: Kathie wanted a nice samwhich and I ordered Motorella sticks as an appetizer. Then, I ordered the Filet Mineon{sp} medium with French dressing. She grabbed the menu to look this up.
______I opened the menu and after a few seconds, pointed to the description of what I wanted. She then asked who I wanted my steak; I said "medium". She asked what kind of potatoe I wanted; I said "baked with everything on it". Finally, she asked the kind of salad dressing I wanted; I said "French".
______The cheese sticks came and were find; Kathie had ordered Ranch dressing.
______Then, "our girl" showed up with both main courses. I looked at her and made an exageriated shrugging motion. She looked beyond confused, she looked lost. She couldn't figure out what my problem was!
______I said "the salad is supposed to come first".
______She brought the salad. I said "I asked for baked potatoe with everything on it." She pointed at my potatoe and said "but you've got butter on it!" I replied "I put the butter from the roll on the potatoe. I'd like some butter and sour cream, please."
______She brought both.
______The meal was fine. The waitress told us she simply brought out what the kitchen put up. So, I told her a couple of times that I didn't hold it against her; the kitchen had screwed up!"
______We gave the girl a nice tip; she had tried and shouldn't be punished for the kitchen staff fucking up!
______I would have told all this to Mike Casey but althought he was there and escorted some folks to a table, he didn't come around. Mike's restraunt has nice food but they have a continual problem with service.
______Like most places in dear ol' Dodge, the quality of the waitress/waiters simply isn't what it should be! To be blunt, it is often medictre and is unfortunately often piss poor at Mike Casey's Cowtown! There is a reason where seldom go to Mike's for a nice dinner date and the service is exactly that!
______Yes, I said "date". I learned a couple of decades that taking me wife out on dates was even more important after we married than before!

13 June 2006

Breakfast: left over roast beef and a couple of slices of bread (to soak up the juices; as gravy goes, this was not one of my successes...)

Lunch: A salad from Dillions...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast with Gravy, Carrots, Roasted Potatoes and Apple Raisin Crisp.

11 June 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes with sausage, coffee.

Lunch: Two very large hotdogs and some fretos, plus a couple of DP.

Dinner: An apple as an apple-tizer (OK, appetizer) and a Healthy Choice Familiar Favorites: Cheesy Chicken with Rice (Chicken with Rice, Cheese Sauce, Broccoli and Carrots)

This is my first time with this meal (my wife picked it out for me) and I liked it! Unfortunately, I was still hungry after eatting so this means two things:

1. I've gotten my appete back after being so sick last week and
2. this is a low cal meals because it is rather skimpy...

I suspect that I'll eat my other apple immediately after testing my blood sugar at 9:37 pm and will probably have a snack when I get home...I always do anyway...

I did eat that other apple and a small amount of popped corn and some ice water.

10 June 2006

About 330 am, a cup of hot choclate.

Breakfast: sleep through it...

Lunch: A hot dog bun with peanut butter and two hard soft-boiled eggs, coffee and a couple of cans DP.

I was up nearly all night whilst walking in the 2006 "Relay Walk For Life. An hour or so after drinking the chocklate, I was back home, showered and in bed. Then, I had to get up for painkillers and Ben Gay.

Dinner: Homemade spegetti sauce over (non)-whole wheat noodles, a beer (MGD), a couple of pieces of garlic toast. I was overboiling some roast beef for useage today and tomorrow.

There apparently must have been too much grease in it because I kept waking up with fat infected stomach juices boiling up; I drank some "pink" and that took care of that!!!

9 June 2006

Breakfast: SOS (an oversalted version) and a DP...

Lunch: Healthy Choice (I wish I could remember which, I'm writing this after the fact...)

Dinner: Two slices of hamberger pizza and a homemade tacco.

A DP and a lot of water...

8 June 2006

I was remiss in my bloging/food diary keeping and forgot to write down what I ate. 'Tis no big deal as it wasn't anything different from tghe normal...

Three great bars gone and a couple of "Long Island Ice Tea" recipies...

_____My wife and I were stationed (in the Navy) on Guam during the 1980s. Like many others, wecruised around the island and checked out various bars. (When you live on an island 35 mileslong and 8 miles at it's widest, you find the good bars and restaurants quickly!) We were quitefond of Achung Bay Marina, Barney's Beach Hut and the Trench Room. All are gone.
_____I say all are gone because I think the owner of the "Achung Bay Marina" probably angeredenough of his neighbors that he went out of business. "Barney's Beach Hut" was destroyed by a typhoon (I've asked the "Pacific Daily News" - theGuam Newspaper - for information on this.).
_____"The Trench Room" was the Officer's Club on the Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam (NASAgana). This fine club was put out of business when the US Armed Forces were gutted in themid 1990s; the "Trench Room" was shut down when NAS Agana was "dis-established".
_____Around 1992, flush with the joy of posting to my first BBS (Bulletin Board System), I wrote thebartenders at both Barney's and the Trench Room for recipes. The bartenders sent me theserecipes. I don't know where they got them from and strongly suspect they evolved in the traditionof read a recipe and change it to suit your customers. While I like these drinks, I haven't madethem (either of them) since 1989 due to the cost (both financial and metabolic!).

"Long Island Ice Teas” (two recipes): These are stealth drinks by the way!

Achung Bay Marina

1 oz Vodka
1 oz Gin
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Tequila
1 oz Scotch or
1 oz Cuiacoa /

Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke

Trench Room
Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam

1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz White Rum
1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 Tequila

Lemon Twist
Sweet and Sour Mix
Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke

In the Achung Bay Marina recipe, you have your choice of either Scotch or Cuicoa!

I forgot to mention! When I wrote those bar tenders, I seem to recall getting their permission to reprint their recipies. (I think...)

7 June 2006

Breakfast: chicken alfredo on noodles...

Lunch: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, corn and a roll, plus two glasses Diet Pepsi (at Casey's, this being Wednesday and a Lion Club Meeting!)

Dinner: A TV dinner purporetedly with BarBQ sauce covered "pork", horrible mashed potatoes and corn...

It is almost enuf to make me consider a small glass of White Zin...

Mudslide (Barney's Beach Hut)

The difference between a Fairy Tale and a Sea Story is that Fairy Tales begin with "Once Upon A Time" and a Sea Story begins with "This Ain't No Shit". I'm going to start a true Sea Story as if it were a Fairy Tale as I fear that Barney's "ain't no more…

"Once upon a time", on the shores of the East Phillipines Sea, in Agana Guam, was a lovely Beach Bar called Barney's Beach Hut. There, for just under $12, you could any drink of your choice. It didn't matter if it was a coke or a Mudslide or water or Long Island Iced Tea. It was all the same price and came in a plastic toy bucket, complete with little plastic shover. Tis something you'd play in the sand with… However, after drinking something alcoholic (like the Mudslide recipied below) you probably didn't want to get off the Beach Chair. You just wanted to wait for the sundown (and the precious "Green Flash") and try to sober up enuf to drive home!)

The Mudslide recipe is tasty but sneaks up on you. I can't afford the cost [metabolic or cash] of the ingredients and haven't made a batch since 1989. (My Mother in Law tried some, liked it a lot and got shit faced on it! She didn't forgive me for years…)
in about ten years.

Mudslide (Barnie's Beach Hut)

1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
1/2 oz Kahlua

Add ice and blend until it looks like a slurry. This is a
sneaky kind of drink by the way.

62th Anniversary or 6 June 2006 and better service at Arbys'...)

Breakfast: I tried eating my left over salad from last night but it was too damn limp. So, I fried up the rest of the bacon and two eggs. Had those with a cup of coffee...

Lunch: An Arby's (single) Roast Beef Samwhich and a DP (from home). After lunch, I was still hungry. It also being a hot day and I was having cravings, I remembered having a McDonald's choclate milkshake several weeks ago. I remember thinking how good it was; that was quite a surprise since the last time I'd had one - two or three years ago - it was rather wretched. Well, today's McDonald's Choclate Milk Shake sucked!

It was not only too damn sweet but it left an acid taste...

I wonder what I saw in this shit a couple of weeks ago? I can only surmise that I got an inexperienced employee who actually made me a real milk shake. They probably fired him/her...

5 June 2006 (Arby's and Piss Poor Service...)

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage plus a cup of coffee.

This is exacely what I had yesterday but unlike yesterday, I had no trouble getting it down and in fact, an hour after eatting, I was hungry again! I think I'm over whatever made me sick...

Lunch: At Arby's with French Dip Samwhich, fries, a Diet Pepsi and piss poor service!

......At Arby's I ordered "the Number one, with drink and a large order of moterillo sticks instead of fries. Can you do that?" "Yes, sir." I got the order and took the sacks to Kathie (we were eatting at her office). I had the feeling the kid at Arbys had fucked up my order but I wasn't going to worry about it.
......I was wrong. He'd fucked up Kathie's order.
......She was pissed and insisted that I return to Arbys to get her motzerillo sticks; she wasn't going to wait till I was done with lunch!
......So, taking her car instead of Lumox (my 1984 Suburbon), I went back to Arbys. There was a very large croud of people waiting but I wasn't about to wait in line. I went to the side of the line and stated "I'd like to speak with a manager please!"
......She came over and I explained how I'd ordered the motzerillo sticks but not gotten them. I said I'd like to get them. She asked, "which register did you buy them at?" I pointed to the one closest to me. The kid behind the counter said "it was me". I respect the boy for having the courage to admit that. (He was still working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
......Another boy brought over the sticks, plopped them down on the counter in front of me and turned away.
......I said "I'd like some sauce, please."
......He plopped two containers in front of me and started to walk off.
......I said "This is carry out. Could I have a bag?"
......He asked the manager what I was talking about. She said something at amounted to "bag" and pointed him to them. The boy put a bag on the counter in front of me. He made no effort to bag the sticks.
......I did not attempt to get him to come back. (He was not working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
.....I was afraid he'd fuck up the sticks!
......So, I looked at the manager, she looked embarrassed and I packaged the sticks myself. She also gave me a $4.31 refund for my having to come back...
......I don't look gift horses in the mouth.

Dinner: An attempt at a Dillions salad but I couldn't get much down; my stomach is still "small" (I wish this would last...). So, I had a piece of a berry pie Kathie brought home with her and a beer (a MGD!).

At least, I got some vitimin Ethanol!

4 June 2006

Breakfast: An Aunt Jamima pancakes and sausage and a cup of coffee. I had a hard time getting it all down; no appatite.

Lunch: A Healthy Choice Roast Beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, plus a DP.

Shortly after lunch, still feeling ill, I called in sick to work. No big deal.

Dinner: My wife went to the store for her dinner and brought me (at my request) a couple of cans of Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup and oaster crackers. That was fine. Fortunately, I had very little appatite and it wasn't until just before going to bed (aroudn 9 pm) that I got some appitate back and ate some oaster crackers. Then, I had more chills and had to put an extra blanket on (on me that is, my wife obviously wasn't having chills).

3 June 2006 (and barfing, etc...)

Breakfast: peanut butter samwhich (1 slice whole wheat bread) and a cup of coffee.

Snack: At the "Relay For Life" Building, after I turned in our team's forms, several cups of orange juice, a cup of coffee and some casserol consisting of a lot of shredded spuds, sausage, cheddar cheese and a sauce.

Lunch: Some low cal lassonia.

Dinner; Healthy Choice, Beef Tips Portobello with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables and Apple Cherry Crisp. This was good but I won't repeat buying it. There is the:

1. Cherry in the Apple Cherry Crisp and
2. I'd sort of overlooked the fact that "Portobello" is a type of mushroom...

I don't know what I ate but something isn't agreeing with me. I've had progressively worst diaherri since I ate some popcorn after dinner. "Three times a charm" or so they say but from the "rumbling in the belly", I don't think I can expect only three visits to the throne. Also, there is this increasing nausea and the feeling that I'll be "blowing chunks" over the lawn before too long. I hope I don't take any rabbits unaware! We've had some "baby bunnies" around here lately and they are still getting their survival skills honed...

A few minuts after writing this, events escallated to a bit of vomiting...

Then, I spent a couple of hours at home sitting on the couch feeling miserable and occasionally trundling into the bathroom for more vomiting and diahria. Twice, I fertalized the lawn - vomit that is - (outside the fence), showered and went to bed with chills. Not a really good way to end the day...

2 June 2006

Breakfast: Oatmeal, piece of whole wheat toast with peanut butter, cup of coffee and a DP.

Lunch: Salad and Smart Ones Pepperoni Pizza Bistro Selections and a DP

1 June 2006

Breakfast:

Lunch: A & W Root Beer: quarter pounder with bacon, french fries and a diet root beer.

Dinner: