20 July 2012

Breakfast: the left over SOS on mashed potatoes, and a can of PEPSI FREE.

Snack: some cheeze-its and coffee

Lunch: left over mashed potatoes and coffee

Dinner: Healthy Choice and iced water


Exercise 30 minutes on the threadmill

19 July 2012

Breakfast: McDonalds Big breakfast of

• biscuit with grape jelly
• scrambled eggs
• sausage diskette
• potatoe slab
• coffee

Lunch: at KFC for chicken, mashed potatoes, brown gravy and cottage cheese and apple desert

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meal and cold water

Snack: some dark chocolate

Exercise  I didn't do the  treadmill as I am sore from having started walkinig it lately. I'll walk tomorrow...

RIP Mariah Hills Steak & Ale

It seems an excellent restaurant called "Mariah Hills Steak & Ale" has closed.  I hope this is wrong but we went there on 15 July 2012 and the place was locked up.  I asked various folks in the business but they said they'd heard nothing.

I would miss "Ham's Place" very much if he really had to close.

Vir Cotto on post dinner vomiting

"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-"

18 July 2012

_____Breakfast: homemade SOS on sour dough bread and coffee
________Lunch:  at Casey's Cowtown for

• pulled pork with bar-b-que sauce
• two little pieces of over cooked corn on the cob
• roll and butter
• iced water and a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

_______Dinner:  home made tuna noodle and cheese casserol and a bottle of Landshark beer and for desert, a chunk of Kathie's birthday cake

Pre-Bed Snack:


Exercise: 30 minutes on the treadmill

17 July 2012

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at the "North" Pizza Hutt for a couple of slices of pepporini pizza, a slice of  apple pie pizza, a salad with cottage cheese and "Diet Pepsi" The service was quite adequate.

Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate and coffee

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf and iced water

Excerise...walked on treadmill for 33 minutes

16 July 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: at King's Buffet for white rice, chicken and beef dishes and ice creamme for desert

Snack: coffee and a chunk of dark chocolate

Dinner:  Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water (and another chunk of dark chocolate)

Exercise: walked on treadmill for 33 minutes

Kathie's Birthday

My wife's birthday cake It was the {deleted} anniversary of her 29th birthday.

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: at Applebys for:

• a bowl of "French Onion Soup" (far inferior to what my Father made but not bad...)
• 9 oz rib eye steak
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• some partially boiled broccoli florets and "baby" carrots
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (both actually came without ice!)

The service was good until we tried to pay and the waitress seemed to forget where we were; my wife said she was busy taking a big order...

We didn't see any managers and as I said, the service was fine till we had to wait when we tried to pay.

We had planed on going some place special as it was my wife's birthday; Appleby is simply not that special! 

We went to Mairah Hills but they were not open; their sign said nothing of being closed on Sundays. (He may be having financial problems.)

We then went to another place, Central Station but they were closed also. The last three times we went there I had an alergic reaction to their "dry seasoned steaks".  Nothing says "great seasoning quite like said seasoning triggering an asthma attack!" I'm actually glad they were closed...

Snack: We each had a slice of Kathie's birthday cake.

Dinner:  Hungry Man Selects Classic Fried Chicken, awful "mashed" potatoes, a decent little brownie and iced water

Post dinner delight: a chunk of dark chocolate...

14 July 2012

Breakfast: something unusual for me:

• a three egg "omelet" made in a plastic "omelet" cooker,
•  two slices of whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• and coffee

Lunch: at the 3I show:

• a buffalo burger
• a kind of potatoe chips
• can of Diet Pepsi
• a pastry made with vanilla creamme, whipped creamme and strawberries

Snack: chunk of dark chocolate (I need to buy more...)O

 

Snack 2: some little Oreos...

 

Dinner: A Healthy Choice TOP CHEF Chicken Linguini with Red Pepper Alfredo and iced water...

Friday the 13th

Breakfast: first, a egg, sausage and cheese sandwich that a coworker brought in; he brought in a bag of these things and handed them out...

Breakfast (for real): a bowl of cheerios and coffee

Lunch: the left over spaghetti sauce (we were very short of noodles),  and a can of Pepsi One (I'm maxed out on coffee and iced water)

Snack: I worked at the 3I show. The Lions Club provided Lions to work the belt buckle and hats sales stand. I sold a couple of hats. Actually, a couple of men decided they had to have hats, picked up a hat and paid me...

Food wise, I had a Slim Jim, medium Diet Coke, a bottle of water and  refill of the bottle from a drinking fountain. It was hot at our stand and I was definitely feeling heat stress...

Dinner: We went to Montana Mike's and I had:

• rolls and butter
• salad with French Dressing
• steak dinner
• 12 oz rib eye steak (I took about half home)
• baked potatoe (also took about half home
• no desert
• iced water

The food was excellent and the waitress young, eager, and provided excellent service.

Snack at home: gin-n-tonic

Unfortunately, the excellent dinner was too greasy for my damnably delicate stomach. I blew chunks about two hours after going to bed. A couple of hours after that, I woke up dehydrated and realized that against my desires, I would have to drink some water. I drank the water and this set off an ashma attack. Fortunately, a couple of poofs from the inhaler brought easy breathing after about a minute of miserable breathing...

These are two more items to discuss with my family MD on my next twice annual MD visit...

Vomito Ergo Sum

Fwd: 12 July 2012

Breakfast: Yellow Hominy with tuna fiche and coffee

 

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for a salad, small bowl of cottage cheese and iced water

 

Dinner: small amount of home made speghetti sauce on noodles and a bottle of Landshark

 

Snack: chunk of dark chocolate

Snack: at the 3i Show: glass of "Diet Coke" and a Slim Jim

 

Dinner: I kind of scrounged this up at home...

• two ears corn on the cob
• crumbled cooked sausage boiled with white rice
• cold water

12 July 2012

Breakfast: Yellow Hominy with tuna fiche and coffee

 

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for a salad, small bowl of cottage cheese and iced water

 

Dinner: small amount of home made speghetti sauce on noodles and a bottle of Landshark

 

Snack: chunk of dark chocolate

10 July 2012

Breakfast: McDonald's Big Breakfast of:

• sausage patty
• scrambled eggs
• bisquit with grape jelly
• potatoe thingie that I put in the refrigerator for someday, remembering the line "someday never comes...
• coffee

Lunch: at Kate's for:\

• a double hamburger
• home made fries
• iced water

The food was good and since Kate's was not crowded, the service adequate...

 

Snack: I saw the latest Spiderman movie (excellent show!) and had chips and cheese and a medium "Diet Coke"

 

Dinner: A Healthy Choice fish meal

 

Snack: a couple of pieces of dark chocolate

Top 10 Reasons Americans Are Overweight

The Top 10 Reasons Americans are Overweight:

10. Hey, we get 80 channels of great American TV 24 hours a day, there's no time to exercise!
9. "Girl Scout Cookie Dough" gets better tasting every year.
8. The colossal failure of "Salad King" drive-thru chain.
7. Doing it just to spite Richard Simmons.
6. Addition of a diet soda does NOT mean your triple bacon cheeseburger/chili fries combo is a healthy meal.
5. Americans still unconvinced that it's not really butter.
4. Part of our country's defense strategy: Asses too large to be kicked.
3. Slim Fast shakes taste much better with a scoop of Ben & Jerry's in 'em.
2. One word: Sprinkles
... and the Number 1 Reason Americans are Overweight:
1. "Did somebody say McDonald's?"

This was taken from a Diabetic Support Group page.

9 July 2012

_____Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee
________Lunch:  at the Rat for chicken, chocolate pudding and a smallish "Diet Coke"
                 Snack: a slice of sour dough bread and milk
_______Dinner:  two ears of corn and a peanut butter and honey on a slice of sour dough bread and iced water
Pre-Bed Snack: most of a baloney sandwich and a couple of gin-n-tonics...

8 July 2012

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Yes, that is ice...

Lunch: at Napoli's at the Garden City Kansas Airport for:

• warm, home made rolls and butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce, Italian sausage and cheese
• two glasses of "Diet Coke, no ice" (photo germane)

The food was excellent and the spaghetti sauce better than what I had at Olive Garden this past Tuesday. The service was reasonably adequate...

Dinner: The rest of the left over salmon from last night. I also had a large boiled potatoe and two ears of corn and iced water. I was saved from the temptation of chocolate by having forgotten to bring any and not having enough change on me to buy anything from the office vending machine...

7 July 2012

Breakfast: we went to "Inn Pancake House" and from the buffet I had:

• pork SOS on hash browns
• several link sausages (very well cooked...)
• about two tablespoons of what was probably powdered egg "scrambled eggs"...
• coffee and
• iced water

Lunch; From McDonald's, where I had:

• a ¼ pounder (I remember them being a lot thicker years ago...)
• fries
• a medium "Diet Coke"
• I split the last of the left over Olive Garden chocolate layer cake from this past Tuesday

Dinner: We went to Dillions today with the intent of buying me some boneless, skinned chicken that I would cook and take to work. Instead, we discovered they had a fresh fish section so I bought some salmon. For dinner, I had:

• boiled broccoli florets
• boiled rice
• baked salmon mixed with the broccoli and rice
• and iced water

I only used part of the salmon so I guess I'll have to do something like make baked potatoe or boiled potatoe tomorrow.

6 July 2012

Breakfast:  cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: We went to a Mexican place and I had a couple of different things and "Diet Coke"

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Sweet & Tangy Chicken BBQ, iced water and a chunk of dark chocolate...

5 July 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

 

Lunch: a foot long meatball sandwich at Jerrod's Place, bag of chips and a medium "Diet Coke"

 

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chop & Gravy, a piece or two of dark chocolate and iced water

Independence Day 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: from Burger King, a double hamburger, fries and "Diet Coke"

 

Snack: chocolate shake from Burger King

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf and iced water and a chunk or two of dark chocolate...

3 July 2012

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_____Breakfast: I had 2 poached eggs and grits. I poached  the eggs in the water meant for the grits and when the eggs looked done, I added butter and cooked the grits. I drank some coffee.


________Lunch: A ham sandwich, chips and a "Pepsi One" 


_______Dinner:  We went to the Wichita Kansas Olive Garden and I had:

• their great salad and bread sticks,
• spaghetti with four cheese meat sauce and meat balls
• a very fancy multilayer chocolate cake (that was barely above the cost of a single slice)
• three glasses of "Diet Coke" 
• a very nice piece of chocolate cake from a chocolate cake...

I figure there must be three servings each for both of us.


I had a new four cheese meat sauce with meatballs, on the spaghetti, and it was excellent. The waitress was extremely good.  We were quite happy to have gone to Olive Garden, Wichita, Kansas.


It will be much harder to go back to the blase service back home...




Pre-Bed Snack:  a gin-n-tonic

2 July 2012

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Breakfast: cherios and coffee


Lunch: at Long John Silver for the #4 meal of

• two chicken slabs
• three fish slabs
• french fries
• a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: My wife and I are going out to dinner tonight at the Boot Hill Casino Restraunt. Based on previous experience, I have the following expections:


We had a new waiter who enthusiastic and tried very well. He actually succeed but needs more experience.

I had:

• salad with cottage cheese and thousand island dressing
  
• two rolls (there were flies buzzing around near the rolls but I ate them anyway)
  
• 10 oz prime rib (quite nice and not much waste - fat
  
• an undercooked baked potatoe
  
• some chocolate pudding with the salad
  
• a really large scoop of vinialla ice creamme with chocolate drizzled on it and whiped creamme
  
• a bottle of Budweiser

When I started drinking beer many years ago, I would not touch Bud.  Now, I look at the choice and it is either "lite" or "light" or "Ultra" (watered down pseudo-beer) or something too strong for me. So, Budweiser (not Bud Lite) has become my "go to" beer when I drink outside the house. I am writing this from home and have a Landshark.

FIxing to have dinner again at the Book HIll Casino Restaurant tonight....

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My wife and I are going out to dinner tonight at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant. Based on previous experience, I have the following expectations:

 
                    Expectation                                                   Reality

__Food:   __poor        _†_adequate  __excellent      __poor       _ _adequate   _†_excellent

Service:  _†_piss poor  __adequate   __good          __piss poor  _†_adequate  _ _good

We had a new waiter who enthusiastic and tried very well. He actually succeed but needs more experience.

I had:

• salad with cottage cheese and thousand island dressing
• two rolls (there were flies buzzing around near the rolls but I ate them anyway)
• 10 oz prime rib (quite nice and not much waste - fat)
• an undercooked baked potatoe
• some chocolate pudding with the salad
• a really large scoop of vanilla ice creamme with chocolate drizzled on it and whipped creamme
• a bottle of Budweiser 

When I started drinking beer many years ago, I would not touch Bud.  Now, I look at the choice of beers and it is either "lite" or "light" or "Ultra" (watered down pseudo-beer) or something too strong for me. So, Budweiser (not Bud Lite) has become my "go to" beer when I drink outside the house. I am writing this from home and have a Landshark.

There are two bars at the Boot Hill Casino. One is the bar by the resteaurant and it does not have Landshark.  The other bar, the "Saloon",  which had Landshark on tap on 18 May 2012, was closed because management decided that Mondays were too slow to have the Saloon manned and working.

The major problem with the Boot Hill Casino is they are divided into sections that are supposed to be self supporting. They are:

• gambling
• restaurant
• bar and Saloon
• Miss Kittie's Store  closed for the lack of sales of their overpriced items...

The restaurant is retreating from full service and I would not be surprised if it fell  apart completely withing 5 years...

1 July 2012

_____Breakfast: breakfast at the Inn Pancake House for:

• a small steak
• small amount of hash browns
• two eggs over easy
• two small pancakes
• coffee and iced water

________Lunch:  balonney sandwich and cold water
_______Dinner:  Kathie's "Mexican":

• hamburger
• refried beans
• shredded cheese
• sour creamme
• green onion
• tomatoe
• salsa
• Ketsup
• 2 bottles of Landshark beer

Pre-Bed Snack:  a couple of little Oreos and cold water...

Excellent service: our waitress at the Inn Pancake House were very attentive and kept refilling our coffee cups and water glasses. She also asked if we needed anything else. 

This is quite different from the extremely bad service we had at the Boot Hill Casino Restuarant on 19 May 2012.

29 June 2012

_____Breakfast: milk toast with 3 slices of sour dough bread toast and  coffee
________Lunch:  Pizza Butt for salad, a slice of pepporonia pizza and desert pizza plus two glasses of "Diet Coke"
_______Dinner:  The left over stewed pork chops, sour krat, potatoes, and iced water. I later had some little Oreos cookes
Pre-Bed Snack: a slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and honey and a coffee cup of cold water. This is my 6^th day of being on the wagon...

28 June 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: Various chicken and beef items at King's Buffet and rice and then
desert.

Dinner: Stewed pork chops, potatoe and sour krat and iced water.

27 June 2012

_____Breakfast: cherios and coffee
________Lunch:  at Casey's Cowtown ffor a large hamberger, fries and iced water
_______Dinner:  can of beef stew with chips and iced water
Pre-Bed Snack: peanut butter and honey on a slice of sour dough bread

26 June 2012

Breakfast: 3 boiled eggs and two cups of coffee

 

Lunch: at the Rat for

• several pieces of chicken (legs and one broiled breast)
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy and cottage cheese
• chocolate pudding with whipped creamme in a pie
• medium "Diet Coke"

Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf and iced water and an ice creamme sandwich (never be asked by a friend going to a grocery store if you want anything when you are hungry! You ask for unsafe items...)

 

 

hypoglycemia?

I had several slices of extra sharp Tillamook Cheddar Cheese last night before going to bed. Then, around 2:40 am, I awoke feeling very hungry. Around 3 am, I decided there was no point in putting matters off any longers, So I stumbled to the kitchen, took some dark chocolate from the freezer and washed it down with tap water. Then, I went back to bed and waited for the nervousness and hunger to go away.

 

They did.

 

I later remembered stumbling towards the kitchen and thought it was just late night poor coordination. I tested my blood sugar after getting up this morning and found it to be 92. I guess it had been lower when I'd "enjoyed" the dark chocolate.

 

Tonight, I'll have something like a peanut butter on a slice of sour dough bread and cold water. This should last me till breakfast.

Re:

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25 June 2012

 

After the nice cool Oregon weather, this is what Kansas had in store for us

Breakfast: a scant single serving of <tty>instant grits</tty> with butter and two cups of coffee

Lunch: a whopper, with large fries (split with Kathie) and a large "Diet Coke". The drive up clerk didn't seem to understand and so screwed up the order by not putting mustard or ketchup on Kathie's whopper. Oh, well...

Snack: cup of coffee and a chunk of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chop and Gravy (Breaded Pork Chop with Cheddar Topped Mashed Potatoes, Home-Style Gravy andf Cinnamon Glazed Apples) and iced water.

Snack: little Oreos and iced water...

Day 2 on the wagon

24 June 2012

I slept horribly last night.  I was confortably asleep when I awoke to an intense pain across my abdomin just below my breast bone.  After a few minutes, I went to the Hotel bathrooon and drank some anti-acid. I also took a couple of anti-pain pills and went back to bed.  There, I kept rolling from my left side to right side and back to my back.

Then, I went to the bathroom and drank a couple of glasses of cold water.  My water and stomach contents did not stay down!  I barfed but this did not help me anyway!  I also had "lower digestive track problems" (diahreia) I spent the rest of the night on my right side, then on my back (with the initial high shot of pain).  After being on my back, I went back to my right side and had tghe same surge of pain.

Finally, I decided to take a risk and sleep on my left side. The pain surge was minor and didn't last long.  I finally got some sleep.  Kathie had a hard time getting me out of bed.

_____Breakfast:  at the Wichita Double Tree Restraunt where I took it easy on the buffet:

• pork SOS on baked potatoe chunks and
• a soft boiled egg on a bisuit, with a slice of ham between the two and a cheese sauce over it all. We don't remember what this is called
• coffee and
• iced water (Kathie figured I was probably dehydrated)

________Lunch: a Healthy Choice fish meal and iced water

At 4:21 pm, my stomach has stgarted hurting again.  Time for some cold water.

_______Dinner: We went to Sonic and I ordered the chicken stripes and got "Tator Tots" when I thought I was going to get french fries and also got two onion rings thrown in. I had a "Diet Coke". After we had waited for about 8 minutes, Kathie rang the bell and got "can we help you"? "Yes, we'd like our order." "Ah, it's ah, coming right now!"

It was clear the clerk who took our order had lost our order. If we had quietly pulled out and gone elsewhere, they may never have discovered this!

Anyway, I had the chicken, a bite of one onion ring and several "tator tots". (I don't like them...)

The service was extremely poor and they are on out "invisible store list" for the time being...

Pre-Bed Snack: a couple of glasses of water. After this morning's stomach debachle and given my stomach still hurts, I am on the wagon for the foreseeable future!

23 June 2012

_____Breakfast: a Starbucks latte and a Starbucks chocolate muffin at 5 am
________Lunch:  Hamburger, fries and two Bud at the Wichita Airport bar/restaurant
                 Snack:   We checked into the Wichita Airport Double Tree (formerly the Hilton) and I had a freshly baked chocolate cookie and coffee
_______Dinner:  We went to the Wichita, Kansas, Outback Steak House and I had:

• brown bread with butter
• about a 6 oz fried piece of skinless, boneless chicken
• an 8 oz ribeye
• loaded baked potatoe
• a bottle of Budweiser (which is now a premium beer compared to the "light" or "lite" beer and the watered down piss called "Michaelob Ultra" - not a "beer" sailors would have drank "in my day".

The manager clearly had "worried feet" as he came around to ask how we liked the meal and sked about specific items on the menu. The service was a bit spotty at the end since Kathie had to flag down our waiter. Still, the service was better than the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant...


Pre-Bed Snack: We went to a booze store and a got a 4 pack of Sutter Home White Zin (187 milliliters each).

I slept horribly last night. I was confortably asleep when I awoke to an intense pain across my abdomin just below my breast bone. After a few minutes, I went to the Hotel bathrooon and drank some anti-acid. I also took a couple of anti-pain pills and went back to bed. There, I kept rolling from my left side to right side and back to my back.

Then, I went to the bathroom and drank a couple of glasses of cold water. My water and stomach contents did not stay down! I barfed but this did not help me anyway! I also had "lower digestive track problems" (diahreia) I spent the rest of the night on my right side, then on my back (with the initial high shot of pain). After being on my back, I went back to my right side and had tghe same surge of pain.

Finally, I decided to take a risk and sleep on my left side. The pain surge was minor and didn't last long. I finally got some sleep. Kathie had a hard time getting me out of bed at 8 am.

22 June 2012

_____Breakfast: at my Father-in-Laws, where he cooked:

• bacon well fried
• two eggs boiled in the bacon fat
• coffee
• slice of whole wheat toast with butter

________Lunch: at Giovannis in Beaverton, Oregon where I had:

• green salad with Italian dressing
• luncheon sized spagethie with meat sauce and a piece of Italian sausage
• garlic bread
• two glasses of "Diet Coke"

The service was fine, even if the waitress brought ice in my first "Diet Coke, no ice, please".

Part of their menu reads: "GIOVANNI'S CON POMODORO - sauteed with olive oil, roma tomatoes, garlic and parmigiano cheese"  If I even finish my "National Novel Writing Month" novel, that I got about half way through in 2009, I am going to have one character (a Navy cook or Commissaryman 3^rd Class) make this for another (a LTjg in hack).

_______Dinner:  We went to the Portland Oregon Airport Restaurant where I had:

• salmon bisque, cup of
• french fries
• cole slaw
• two local brews

Back at the hotel (Porland Oregon Airport Double Tree) for a bottle of Bud (after the grease level in the fish, I did well to keep dinner down...)

The Good News from 1 Timothy 54

This is Bible Advise I can live with, even if I don't like the taste of most wine and end up needing a Pepto Bismo chaser after drinking most wine. Red wine is generally too sour ("dry"), white wine too sweet and about the only wine I enjoy is  White Zin. But, I'm diabetic so I can't drink much of it. I guess I'll just have to struggle along with gin-and-tonic or beer: Land Shark, MGD, Mic Lager. Apparently, the makers of "Henry Winehart's Private Reserve" have improved the recipe so much that most previous fans will not touch it! Having said this, I am pleased to present my favourite part of 1 Timothy: Book 54  1 Timothy 54:005:023 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine other infirmities."

This is taken from the King James translation of the Bible as published in Project Gutenberg.

This is taken from the King James translation of the Bible as published in Project Gutenberg.

21 June 2012

_____Breakfast:   I made SOS and had this on two slices of whole wheat bread. My recipe was:

• 1½ pounds of 97% meat, 3% fat hamburger
• 3 cups of whole milk
• about 3 teaspoons of Worcester Sauce
• a ¼ cup of (wheat) flour

I browned the hamburger and drained the fat. Then, I sprinkled the flour over the browned hamburger and stirred in in. I added the Worcester Sauce to the milk, poured this over the meat, stirred it in and "reduced" it a bit. I stopped cooking it when my wife and Father-in-Law said they were ready for breakfast. 

This went over very well...

________Lunch: We went to a nice place in the Washington Square Mall, in Beaverton, Oregon and I had spaghetti with meat sauce, "Diet Coke" and we split an order of a very rich chocolate cake with ice creamme. We at on the balcony of this restaurant. It was very pleasant.


_______Dinner: We went to a new place in Tigard, Oregon, with Kathie, her sister Linda, and their Father. We split an order of cheese sticks. I had roast beef, mashed potatoes and mixed steamed veggies (mainly chunks of carrots.


Pre-Bed Snack: a couple of small glasses of white whine wine. I was helping Kathie to finish off a bottle as we could not take it on the plane with us. This was a serious mistake! I awoke a couple of hours after going to bed and vomited up most of dinner and whine wine.


Friday night, I will have something very light on fat and if I am hungry when I go to bed, I can at least know I won't wake up swallowing vomit...


I have the quirk of not liking to vomit a couple of hours after going to bed. It makes me think of how some rock stars vomited and drowned on said vomit in the late 1960s. One died in 1970 and one of our drill instructors gloated about this. I was in Boot Camp at the time and so could not verify his story. Would a Drill Instructor fuck with his boot's heads? Yes, he would!


The service at lunch was excellent and the service at dinner was above average. 


It is a pity that the "wait staff" at most of the places we go to in Kansas can not experience what good service is all about. They - especially the "wait staff" at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and frequently the "wait staff" at Applebys would be in for a rude awakening!


However, we didn't see any managers so, according to Anthony Bourdain, neither place had managers "with worried feet". (I think this is how he put it.)

16 June 2012

Breakfast: two slices of sour dough toast with peanut butter and then a repeat

Lunch: feta cheese on sour dough bread and a can of Diet

Breakfast: two slices of sour dough toast with peanut butter and then a repeat

Lunch: feta cheese on sour dough bread and a can of Diet Coke

Snack: a handful of chocolate chips at my nephew’s house; I had had sympthoms of hypoglycemia (what a surprise!)

Dinner: We went to a restaurant in Salem, Oregon and I had:

· Slices of toast dipped in olive oil

· Spaghetti with meat balls

· “Diet Coke”, 2 glasses of

Movie snack: chips and two gin-n-tonic

Post bed entertainment (?): I lost dinner with the first vomiting I’ve done since 31 May 2012 and it was noisy and very unpleasant. Kathie kept saying: “that’s enough! You’ve done enough!” Oddly enough, telling me that doesn’t get my stomach to behave any more than me telling my stomach to behave. It does make her feel better, though.

Snack: a handful of chocolate chips at my nephew’s house; I had had sympthoms of hypoglycemia (what a surprise!) that’s enough! You’ve done enough!”

Dinner: We went to a restaurant in Salem, Oregon and I had:

· Slices of toast dipped in olive oil

· Spaghetti with meat balls

· “Diet Coke”, 2 glasses of

Movie snack: chips and two gin-n-tonic

Post bed entertainment (?): I lost dinner with the first vomiting I’ve done since 31 May 2012 and it was noisy and very unpleasant. Kathie kept saying: “that’s enough! You’ve done enough!” Oddly enough, telling me that doesn’t get my stomach to behave any more than me telling my stomach to behave. It does make her feel better, though.

15 June 2012

Breakfast: two eggs scrambled, two slices of whole wheat toast and coffee

Lunch: at the Eugene Oregon El Charo for

·         Taco

·         Enchilada

·         Tamale

·         Flan

·         Two glasses of “Diet Pepsi”

Dinner: My brother in law, Dave, fired up his barbeque and we had great beef ribs, adequate potatoe salad, lettuce salad and a couple of beers.

Our neice, Erica, made this great chocolate cheese cake!

Dinner: My brother in law, Dave, fired up his barbeque and we had great beef ribs, adequate potatoe salad, lettuce salad and a couple of beers.

11 June 2012

Breakfast:

• two fired eggs,
• two slices of toast
• and coffee

Lunch: We went to Giovanias in  Beaverton, Oregon and I had:

• Salad with Italian dressing
• Spaghetti with meat sauce and two meat balls
• Garlic bread
• Some kind of desert
• Two glasses of a local beer

Dinner: My Father in Law made:

• Roast beef
• Mashed potatoes (instant but good)
• Brown gravy
• A bottle of Foster

Desert: a couple of squares of dark chocolate and a gin-n-tonic

10 June 2012

Breakfast: at the Wichita Kansas airport for cheese, egg and Canadian bacon on a roll and coffee

Lunch 1: some little crackers on a plane
Lunch 2: at a sea food place in Beaverton, Oregon:

• Cup of soup
• Prawns
• 7 oz piece of steak; my “medium” steak was a dull red
• Baked potatoe
• Rolls and butter
• Two bottles of Bud
• Iced water

Dinner: at my Father in Law’s house,

• Chicken, baked
• Some potatoe salad
• bread and butter

 

9 June 2012

Breakfast: at the Wichita Double Tree:

• SOS on potatoes Scrambled eggs
• Sausage
• Coffee

Lunch: also at the Wichita Double Tree (they fed the Lions State Convention):

• Ham sandiwich
• Potatoe salad
• Cookie
• Coffee

Dinner: the final meal at the Convention (at the Wichita Double Tree:)

• Slab of boneless, skinless chicken
• Chunks of potatoes
• Cake
• Decaf coffee
• Iced water

8 June 2012

_____Breakfast: at the Wichita Kansas Double Tree for:

• two eggs over medium
• hash browns
• corned beef
• two slices of whole wheat toast with "reduced sugar" grape jelly
• orange juice
• coffee and
• iced water

________Lunch:  also at the Double Tree (Convention meal room) for

• a ham, bacon, cheese, tomoatoe, etc wrap
• chips
• coffee
• iced water

_______Dinner: for a second meal in a row, at the Double Tree convention meal room for:

• salad
• overcooked and tough pork chop
• nicely done potatoe dish
• roll and butter
• carrot cake
• decaf coffee
• iced water

Pre-Bed Snack: a chocolate chip cookie

We were at the Double Tree for the 2012 Lions State Convention. The presentations were very nice and the food good.

07 June 2012

_____Breakfast: scrambled eggs, small piece of baked pork chop d coffee
________Lunch:  at a place in Greensburg, Kansas, for a very nice beef sandwich, chips and bottle of Diet Coke.
_______Dinner: at the Double Tree in Wichita Kansas (formerly the "Airport Hilton") for:

• salad
• roast beef
• mashed potatoes
• corn
• brown gravy on the meat and spuds
• part of a nice creame pie
• iced water

5 June 2012

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: from Arbys, a roast beef and 3 cheese sandwich, french fries (of a sort) and "Diet Pepsi"

 

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chop and Gravy and iced water

 

Some chocolate cake and vanilla ice creamme left over from the office luncheon (which I did not attend)

4 June 2012

Breakfast: 3 eggs scrambled with milk and a little black pepper (it was a bit much but I got it down) and a cup of coffee

 

Lunch: at King's Buffet, a veriety of chicken and beef dishes on rice and chocolate pudding and 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Snack: a second cup of coffee and some dark chocolate

 

I also had a small amount of coffee (~ a ¼ cup)

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and iced water

 

 

2 June 2012

Breakfast: cherios and a single cup of coffee

 

Snack: a single cup of coffee

 

Lunch: a can of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup, a peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough bread sandwich and cold water

 

Snack: a big square of dark chocolate

 

I thought about another cup of coffee but my stomach was queasy and I decided I did not wish to confirm the hypothesis "caffeine is now upsetting my stomach"!

 

It is now 6:35 pm and I fear I'm on the verge of vomiting. I'm almost convinced I should skip dinner (Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner) but I know better than to do that...

 

Finally, at 9:22 pm, I gave in and bought 6 little Oreos from the office vending machine. I ate them to jack my blood sugar and hopefully, prevent hypoglycemia. I am going to have to watch the forecasts better and set up a cold food emergency rations systems. Something like carrots, a chunked up apple and one of my typically overbaked pork chops...

some history of beer

I am watching a history channel show (that is actually history), which includes the history of beer. Folks thousands of years ago thought beer had been sent down by Gods or Goddesses. If that is the case, then light beer must have been sent by a fallen angel and "Michelob Ultra" by the worst of the fallen angels. I'm just joking; "Mic Ultra" was clearly invented by a beer hater.

1 June 2012

_____Breakfast: cherios and coffee
Snack: more coffee and some little Oreos and incredible heart burn. A friend gave me some Tums that really didin't help. I helped Kathie take our big cat to the vet office for a hair cut, Then, I sat on the couch,dozing and later realized I should have gone to the clinic.

_______Lunch: two peanut butter and honey on a single slice of sour dough each. I felt wretched.
We got our hair cut and the hair dresser got me a glass of water. I chugged it and started feeling better. She brought me a larger glass of water and that set me straight!
 
_______Dinner:  We went to Appleys anf I had:

• bowl of French Onion Soup
• 7 oz ribeye steak (which was plenty big enough!)
• chunked potatoes
• steamed broccoli florets
• ice water

I was quite pleased with our waitress and her service. She was attentative, asked Kathie if she wanted another alcoholic drink (she didn't) and asked if we wanted desert before she brought the bill. (We didin't.)

The service was excellent!

31 May 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: left over bean-free all-meat chili with crackers and cat sup and a can of Pepsi One.

Lunch:  at "Tres Amigos" for burritos and something else, rice and beans, a glass of "Diet Coke" and  some iced water.

Movie Snack: nachos and cheese and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

Sack of some baked potatoe skins at a Relay Walk For Life Bank Night. Then, I had a glass off Land Shark on tap...it was good...

Dinner: At Casey's Cowtown for roast beef and mashed potatoes and brown gravy. The veggie was  inedible; it was green beans...

Results: about 2 hours after going to bed, I was in the main bathroom blowing chunks. This was not one of my usual "put my finger down my throat".  This was all one it own and I was glad I made it to the toilet in time! I was astonished at how much was coming up.




vomito,vomui

30 May 2012

_____Breakfast:  Cheerios and  coffee


________Lunch:  I did a double red blood donation and afterwards I had a little bit of chips with beans and hamburger and three cans of Orange Juice. I had a little bag of chips with sausa on it. Then, I decided to goto Wendy' but the line was way too long.

I went to Burger King and had a whopper, fries and a "Diet Coke"

_______Dinner: a Healthy Choice beef, rice and broccoli dinner and a bottle of water. I had a bottle of water with this.

Memorial Day 2012

_____Breakfast: cheerios and coffee
________Lunch:  at Long Dong Silvers for the #4 and I got fish and chicken "planks", fries and a medium "Diet Coke"
_______Dinner:  We went to Applebys and  I

• split an order of cheese sticks with Kathie
• ate  most of a 12 oz rib eye steak (took the left overs home)
• ate most of a baked potatoe (took the left overs home)
• drank a glass of an interesting beer on tap and
• drank a glass of Bud on tap

I would have been happier if Appleby had "Land Shark" but they didn't.

The service was adequate once the waiter realized we were there.

27 May 2012

_____Breakfast: We out for breakfast and I had SOS on hash browns, sausage, 2 bisuits with grape jelly and coffee
________Lunch: home made pizza and coffee 
_______Dinner:  most of a can of beef stew, iced water and some little Oreos
Pre-Bed Snack: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and an MGD

25 May 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: at Montana MIke's for:

• rolls and butter
• ½ pound hamburger with mayo, mustard and ketchup
• lots of fries (I didn't get many so I asked our waitress for more...)
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Our waitress was a bit slow as it was a bit busy. Still, she was very helpful so the service rates between average and above average...

Dinner: I worked thru dinner and never got around to having one...

About 10 pm, I was hungry enough to eat 6 little Oreos; their sugar content should jack my blood sugar from the pit it must have fallen in due to missing dinner...

After getting home, I had a can of cream of chicken soup and a preanut butter and honey on a slice of sour dough bread and a gin-n-tonic

24 May 2012

Breakfast: the last little daub of my home made SOS on a slice of sour dough bread and then a bowl of cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: we went to a "Chinese/Mexican/American" place called "King's Buffet". I had a couple of chicken dishs, some beef dishs, two types of soup (sampled them really), chocolate pudding and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

 

This is a buffet so you might not expect good service. The waitress not only remembers how I like my "Diet Pepsi" (with 'no ice please") but comes around to see if there is anything she can do for her customers. These little Chinese ladies could give lessons to the "wait staff" at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant!

 

We got above average service!

 

Snack: a few bites of chocolate fudge and coffee

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf dinner, iced water and a couple of little Oreos..

 

23 May 2012

Breakfast: nearly the rest of the SOS on sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for

• chicken fried chicken
• mashed potatoes with white gravy
• corn
• roll with grape jelly
• and iced water

The service was quite good as was the food.

Snack: I was getting very hungry and had the shakes; three little Oreos set me straight. (When I was first diagnosed, I would never have believed that pills could put me into hypoglycemia.)

Dinner: a Marie Calender pork chop, mashed potatoes with cheddar cheese topping and iced water. I had the last of the little Oreos.

22 May 2012

Breakfast: homemade SOS on sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: can of chicken noodle soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly
sandwich

Dinner: We went to a fund raiser at the local Knights of Columbus. The
occasion was a beer tasting with nine home made beers. These were
basically dark beers. The first was a bit strong but was also the
mildest of the lot. There were two beers of which I drank about half and
didn't finish and a third which I drank a sip and simply could not
finish; it was way too strong and bitter.

We had fretos and water to clear the taste of previous beers from our
mouths. The main course was meatballs with a rice laden tomatoe sauce.
It was interesting and unusual.

We left after the tasting was done and when we got home, I boiled a
couple of ears of corn and they were better than the meatballs...

21 May 2012

Breakfast: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

 

Lunch: ham sandwich, carrots and water

 

Dinner: tomatoe soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and water

 

Snack: gin-n-tonic with ice

20 May 2012

Breakfast: from the Hampton Inn, where I had:

• their SOS on potatoe thingies
• oatmeal
• an  apple turnover
• coffee
• orange juice

Lunch: at the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting for:
fried chicken potatoe salad apple desert two chocolate cupcakes water and iced tea

Dinner: we had Kathie's homemade Mexican of a sheet of dough with fried hamburger, mashed beans, cheese, tomatoe and salad and a couple of beers

Snack: gin-n-tonic

19 May 2012

Breakfast:  A peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on toasted sour dough and coffee

Lunch: We went to Napoli's at the Garden City, Kansas airport for:

• fresh made bread with nice butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce, meat balls and sausage slices
• "Diet Pepsi", 2 glasses

Food excellent, service excellent

Dinner: at the Dodge City "Boot Hill Casino" restaurant and then the Saloon

• salad
• a small cup of potatoe soup
• several tablespoons of what felt and tasted like instant vanilla pudding
• 12 oz char broiled rib eye steak
• large baked potatoe with
  • butter,
  • sour creamme
  • and unfortunately the bacon
• two Budweiser
• glass of iced water

Food excellent, service extremely bad

Casino at the "Boot Hill Casino": I had a Strawberry Dacheri while sitting at a table reading "Destroyer of Worlds" by Larry Niven (wonderful novel). Then, I went and sat next to Kathie at the penny slots and I won some and lost some. I think I came out about 26¢ ahead; I hope the IRS is not expecting me to declare this massive income next year. How about the $8 I lost two months ago?

Excellent Service:  We had lunch at Napoli's where we were greeted quickly and taken to a table. The waitress was clearly watching us and attended us quickly. It made for a very nice experience. Our waitress was quick to ask if we wanted more rolls, if I wanted another "Diet Pepsi" or if Kathie wanted another water. She didn't fawn on us and handled her duties with charm and grace.

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Piss poor service: When we ate dinner, "our" waiter had maybe five (5) tables. He took our order, didn't know what beers he had and didn't have a list. I settled on my new default, Budweiser, as I like lagers, don't like dark beers, dislike "lite" or "light" beers on principle or their poor taste and despise "Michelob  ULTRA".

Our dinner was brought out by a "runner". 

 "Our" waiter was busy at his other tables and simply did not wander down our way. I had to wave my empty Bud at him as he hustled past our table. (No, he did not drop by to ask if we wanted anything.)

"Our" waiter dropped off the bill without asking if we wanted desert. We did not want desert but we did want to be asked and to be given the chance to say no.

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Excellent service: I had a Strawberry Daiquiri at the bar and then went to see how Kathie was doing. After she blew through a $20, we went back to the bar. There, Kathie noticed they had "Land Shark" on tap. I immediately order a glass and said "our waiter did not tell us about the Land Shark". She replied, "I don't think he knows".

The bar tender handled her waitress well, paid attention to her customers and had a nice sense of humour. Kathie and I played the "poker machines" and I lost $3⁸⁰.

16 May 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown for roast beef, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, roll with butter and grape jelly and iced water

Snack: some chocolate pudding

Dinner: Marie Calendar chicken, noodle, broccoli and sauce and iced water  and then some little Oreos...

15 Mary 2012

Breakfast: some bacon cooked in my larger cast iron skillet and a bowl of spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: coffee and a square of dark chocolate

 

Lunch: at "Tres Amigos" for two items which I don't remember and rice and beans with "Diet Coke"

The service was quite good. The new management has expanded the interior (got rid of the buffet), lightened the room up with lighter colored wood and have really improved the food and appearance of the restaurant. It is worth going to...

 Dinner: a Healthy Choice Sundried Tomato and Chicken Alfredo (Chicken Tenderloions and Whole Grain Pasta in Creamy Alferedo Sauce with Sundried Tomatoes and Broccoli)

14 May 2012

Breakfast: left over spaghetti sauce and fresh noodles plus coffee

Lunch: at Pizza Hut for a couple of slices of meat pizza, a slice of apple pie pizza and some vanilla pudding with "Diet Pepsi"

After lunch, I went to the Diabetic Support meeting where my blood sugar was tested and  came out as A1C of 6.3 and 115 for the post lunch. Victoria and I were quite happy...

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water and not a minute too soon! I am more than hungry; I have the shakes (and who says a type 2 on pills can't get "a touch of hypoglycemia"?)

Desert: several little Oreos and cold water

Pre-bed snack: some spaghetti noodles with cheese and catsup and an MGD

a Bizarro cartoon and diabetes

Do you really wonder why we are a nation of fat fracks?

Do you really wonder why the number (in Kansas) of type two diabetes is growing?

We can take dubious pride in being the descendants of folks who could gained weight and survived famines. This is truly a dubious distinction! At least we can take dubious pride in knowing we're taking the rest of the "advanced" world down with us.  (Is this called leadership?)

my recipe collection

A bad day of pork chop cooking or "Honey, I filled the house with smoke..."

Aunt Noreme's sour creamme coffee cake recipe

Basic white sauce

cornbread recipe

Dad's marinade recipe

Diabetic Forecast tomato soup recipe

Diabetes's chocolate pudding

My Mother's all meat meal. Something she did not let my brothers and I try and which she claimed to not remember decades later. (I believed her.)

Tuna noodle casserole

"cottage cheese"

I found a cottage cheese recipe and modified it to:

• one cup of 2% milk
• about ½ teaspoon ionized salt

I warmed this mixture to about 130° and stirred in four tablespoons of white vinegar. After letting this separating mixture sit for 5 minutes,  I poured it into a calender lined with a very clean handkerchief. After letting it sit about 5 minutes, I took the handkerchief out, ran cold water over the cheese, squeezed it dry and scraped the cheese into a large bowl. Then, I added enough creamme to made the fresh made cottage cheese look like cottage cheese.

I got my wife to sample it. She made an awful face before putting the cottage cheese into her mouth. She said it "needed salt". So, I handed her a box of sea salt. She tried it, said she liked it and said she didn't want to deprived me of the cottage cheese. (I will admit this was not an original recipe; this was something I heavily modified from a "real" recipe.

12 May 2012

_____Breakfast: Inn Pancake House for

• 2 pancakes
• 2 eggs over medium
• hash browns
• 7 oz sirloin steak
• coffee

________Lunch: ham sandwich and cold water
 
_______Dinner: Applebys

• a fancy tomatoe soup
• streak with baked potatoe
• a larger shot glass with a sundae in it

The place was very crowded and we were a bit worried the soup would be brought out with the main course. It wasn't; they brought the soup out first and gave us time to eat it. (We will always remember the night we went to "Bad Habits Bar and Grill" and they brought the cheese sticks, salad and main course out at the same time. I remember my wife still tipped the waiter; she said it was not his fault...

Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n--tonic

11 May 2012

_____Breakfast: creamme of wheat, two sour dough toast and coffee
________Lunch:  ham sandwiches and water4
_______Dinner:  homemade spahetti, garlic brad and wager

10 May 2012

Breakfast: little shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: the last of the little Oreos and some Cheeze-Its

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for...

• beef ribs
• french fries
• cottage cheese
• iced water

Dinner: From Subway Sub a chicken breast and lettuce subway sandwich and water

The chicken breast looked good but was cool (thermally) by the time I got home. It was unflavored and limp; I like my chicken more cooked and more flavoured.

9 May 2012

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee

 

Snack: a couple of little Oreos

 

Lunch: at Casey's, large hamburger, fries and iced water

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice fish dinner and cold water with a gin-n-tonic later

8 May 2012

Breakfast: homemade SOS with potatoes and coffee

 

Snack: some little Ores

 

Lunch: left over chicken and rice pilaf and a can of Pepsi One

 

Snack: (at the movie theater): order of nachos double cheese dip and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and water

 

Desert: Pepto Bismol as something really upset my stomach...

7 May 2012

Breakfast: homemade SOS on pan fried shredded potatoes and coffee

 

Snack: can of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and little Oreo cookies

 

Lunch: a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on sour dough bread and a can of Pepsi One.

 

Snack: popcorn

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken meal and a gin-n-tonic