Saturday, September 01, 2012

Anne Romney’s Welsh Skillet Cakes

___Anne Romney’s Welsh Skillet Cakes
Ingredients:
1 egg
1 1/4 cups currants
1/2 cup milk
3 1/2 cups flour
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
Directions:
Beat the egg with the milk. Add currants. Sift all other dry ingredients together. Work butter into flour and mix until mealy. Pour milk and currants over flour and butter mixture all at once and mix well. Wrap in wax paper and chill for at least one hour.
Roll it a little less than half an inch thick — actually about 3/8 of an inch. You may think this is too precise, but it’s very important not to roll too thin.
Cut with cookie cutter. Cook on a pancake griddle greased with oil (325 degrees Fahrenheit) on both sides. Flip the cookies when you see they are shiny. Cook it for less time on the second side. Roll in granulated sugar and let cool.
Resist the urge to eat them right away out of the oven — these are the only cookies that taste better cooled.

This recipe copied from an internet article, without permission. I used it in the "spirit of fair usage".

31 August 2012

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee
 
Lunch 1: popcorn at work
 
Lunch 2: I violated the rule of "never go shopping when you are hungry!" I went to Dillions to buy some hot dogs to have with Romin and ended up buying fresh bar-b-qued ribs. I took them home, had a couple of ribs and a packet of Romin....
 
Dinner: Healthy Choice, something with beef and I've forgotten what else...

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Army SOS recipe


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30 August 2012

Breakfast:From McDonalds wherre I had:
  • scrambled eggs
  • sausage patty
  • bisquit with grape jelly
  • coffee
Snack:dark chocolate
Lunch:From Long John Silvers, where I had:
  • three fish sticks
  • french fries
  • "Diet Pepsi"
 
Snack:potatoe chips
Dinner:I decided to do something else:
  • two ears of corn
  • broccoli soup made
    • a small boiled onion
    • a bunch of broccoli florets
      • I boiled these and put them into the blender
      • I also added some spices
  • Into the blender went some Tillamook extra sharp cheddar cheese
  • Finally, several pieces of boneless, skinned chicken pan fried
  • Snack:a gin and tonic

    Blood sugar:  AM 85  PM 127
    Exercise: 74 minutes of pushing the lawn mower...

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012

    28 August 2012

    Breakfast: cherios and coffee
     
    Lunch: some Mexican at Tri Amigos and a Diet Pepsi (slow service)
     
    Snack: some ice creamme
     
    Dinner; Marie Callander's Country Fried Pork Chop, mashed potatoes, white gravy and apple desert and iced water

    Monday, August 27, 2012

    27 August 2012

    Breakfast: cherios and coffee
     
    Lunch: at KFC for
    • several pieces of chicken
    • mashed potatoes with brown gravy and cottage cheese
    • two types of desert
    • "Diet Pepsi"
    Snack; some dark chocolate
     
    Snack 2: I was feeeling very hungry, sore back so I had some Oreos. This didn't help much so I took some painkillers and everything got better; I guess I overdid it on the treadmill this morning...
     
    Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and iced water

    Pre-bed snack: romman noodles and a LandShark

    26 August 2012

    Breakfast:left over steak, baked potatoe and coffee
    Lunch:We went to Napolis at the Garden City airport and I had:
    • freshly baked rolls, still hot enough to melt the butter
    • speghetti with
      • Italian sausage
      • a meatball
      • meat sauce
  • two glasses of "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (and it didn't have ice!)
  •  
    Dinner:Healty Choice chicken dinnerer and iced water
    Snack:Oreos and water
    Pre-bed:two left over lunch rolls with grape jelly
    SEervicek:ttttt
    Service: the service was very prompt and the food excellent at Napolis (of course, we were the first customers in and the waiter had time to attend to us and several subsequent parties; still, I've seen this situation in Dodge where the waiters simply ignored customers. I won't go back to that "Mexican" place at the mall!)
    Blood sugar:
    Exercise:

    Saturday, August 25, 2012

    25 August 2012

     Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:
    • Serri Lee coffee cake
    • scrambled eggs
    • bacon
    • coffee
    Lunch: from Burger King:
    • Whopper
    • fries
    • small "Diet Coke", no ice
    Snack: some home made chocolate pudding and a cup of coffee
     
    Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and iced water...
     
     Snack: popcorn and some Oreos
     

    24 August 2012

    _____Breakfast:  Wheaties and a banana and coffee
    ________Lunch:   bowl of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and a can of Pepsi One.
                  Lunch 2:   I was still hungry so I went to A & W and had three chicken stripes
                    Snack:   I went to a movie and had nochos with cheese and a medium "Diet Pepsi"
    _______Dinner:   We went to Casey's Cowtown where I had:
    • salad with French dressing
    • a very tender T-bone steak (I took about half home)
    • baked potatoe
    • split a very nice piece of chocolate cake with my wife
    • glass of LandShark on tap
    Comments: I got great service at A & W; certainly better than I generally get at the Boot Hill Casino or Applebys.

    We had really great service at Casey's Cowtown; our waitress
    • was very attentative
    • offered us desert
    • quickly brought water and offered another glass of wine to my wife
    The owner, Mike Casey, stopped by two times to ask how we liked the meal and chatted several minutes.



    Thursday, August 23, 2012

    23 August 2012

    _____Breakfast: cheerios and coffee
    _
    _______Lunch:  a boiled mixture of rice, spaghetti noodles,  two hot dogs and catsup with a
    "Pepsi Zero"
    ____Dinner: Subway subs, a 6" steak and cheese, with lettuce and a small "Diet Lemonade"
     

    22 August 2012

    Breakfast: cherios and coffee
     
    Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for steak sandwich, fries and iced water
     
    Snack: a chocolate covered ice cramme bar
     
    Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken pharmajohn {sic} and cold water; later a gin-n-tonic for "desert"...

    Tuesday, August 21, 2012

    21 August 2012

    Breakfast:A home made one, consisting of:
    • two hamburger patties
    • a couple of slices of bacon
    • two eggs boiled in the mixed grease
    • coffee
    Snack:coffee and dark chocolate
    Lunch:from Jarold's Place
    • a 6 inch meatball sub
    • potatoe chips
    • a medium "Diet Coke"
    Snack:several little powder donuts and cold water
    Dinner:Kathie made two  items:

    • She cooked a meat pizza a co-worker sold for his kids and
    • a hamburger
    • plus a bottle of LandShark (excellent beer!)
    Snack:skipped it tonight as I  had to test my blood sugar right before going to bed...

    Blood sugar:  AM 110   PM 158
    ___Exercise: 35 minutes on the treadmill

    I suppose I could have done push-ups and sit-ups but I didn't think of this until after dinner and shower...

    LandShark is an excellent beer in a land of watered down grain beverages called "lite" or "light" or (gag) "Ultra".

    In the past and only a couple of times, I have knocked back a shot of booze chased it with a beer. I sincerely think that "Ultra" drinkers should chug that piss-beer and chase with a shot of rot gut. At least they will taste something!

    Boot Hill Casino, an evaluation of

    I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

    The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.

    The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

    The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

    They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

    Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.

    It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

    They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light”beers. (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?) They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)

    They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not. Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

    Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?

    They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

    There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar. The prices seem much more reasonable.
    An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

    If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.

    Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation. I like it…

    They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...

    An update on 7 September 2012 that isn't real good news.

    20 August 2012

    This is my second try at writing this entry. The fucking blog simply ate the first try and I guess tghe "save" routine didn't do any good...
    Breakfast: creamme of wheat and coffee
         Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had a variety of chicken and beef dishes, rice, ice creamme and "Diet Pepsi"
        Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for dinner. There, I had:
    • small amount of chili from a little cup of chili
    • salad
    • 9 oz prime rib
    • slightly undercooked baked potatoe "fully loaded" (unfortunately, with those little rocks called "bacon bits"
    • iced water and
    • two Bud (the Saloon was closed and the other bar didn't have LandShark beer)
    I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

    The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.
    The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

    The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

    They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

    Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.
    It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

    They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light” beers.  (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?)  They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)
    They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not.  Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

    Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?
    They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

    There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar.  The prices seem much more reasonable.

    An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

    If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.
    Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation.  I like it…

    They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...



    Sunday, August 19, 2012

    19 August 2012

    Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:
    • well cooked bacon
    • scrambled eggs
    • Serri Lee coffee cake (which I nuked)
    • coffee
    Lunch: We went to the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting and had:
    • Dillions chicken (2 legs and one breast)
    • a rather nice casserol (I wish I knew what was in it)
    • two cookies
    • iced water and
    • a little bit of iced tea
    Snack: some chips and a little bit of coffee at work
     
    Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water
     
    My stomach was rather "delicate" most of the day after blowing chunks aroun 3 am - 3:30 am this morning.

    Saturday, August 18, 2012

    18 August 2012

    Breakfast: at the recently reopened "Inn Pancake House"
    • 6 oz "breakfast" steak
    • two eggs over medium
    • hash browns
    • two pancakes
    • lots of coffee...
    The service was good. Anthony Bourdain wrote something to the effect that if a restaurant has a dirty men's room, then it is likely to have a dirty kitchen. Their men's room was remarkably clean, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt regarding the kitchen cleanliness.
    Lunch: two hots dogs and a small amount of potatoe salad. I had cold water.
    Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate and coffee
    Dinner: A traditional mixture of hamburger, pan fried chunked potatoes and boiled broccoli. This is the kind of stuff I used to eat routinely and which I gave up on for several years. Having eatten it again, tonight, I can kind of see why I quit. While I liked it, it was rather bland.,..
    Desert: some little Oreos.

    Pre-bed: a hot dog and slice of sour dough bread with grape jelly and an MGD

    I had two bouts of vomiting a couple of hours after going to bed. I suspect it was my dinner. My hamburger was too greasy and I cooked the potatoes in a mixture of veggie oil and olive oil.

    Friday, August 17, 2012

    17 August 2012

    Breakfast: Wheaties and coffee
    Lunch: at Bella Italia Ristorante, where I had:
    • salad
    • lasagna with added cheese
    • bread sticks
    • "Diet Coke"
    Dinner: Marie Callender's Fettuccini wsith Chicken,  Broccoli, two little Oreo cookies and iced water

    Wednesday, August 15, 2012

    15 August 2012

    Breakfast: Burger King SOS on biscuits with some of their potatoe disks and a medium coffee
     
    Snack: a small piece of my birthday chocolate cake and coffee
     
    Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown, chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and white gravy, cottage cheese (with a tomato slice) and iced water
     
    Snack: a medium chocolate Frosty from Wendy's (I should have had a small)
     
    Dinner: I had the left over beef stew, some corn chips ("Scoops") and iced water
     
    Snack: I anticipate having some of my birthday cake after I get home...

    Tuesday, August 14, 2012

    My 61st birthday...

    Breakfast: cheerios and coffee
     
    Lunch: homemade beef stew with beef, carrots, corn, potatoes and garlic seasoning, onion seasoning and "Italian Seasoning" plus a Pepsi Zero.
     
    Dinner: Healthy Choice (tentatively) and bottled water
     
    Sadly, since we have our semi-annual physicals tomorrow, I can't have birthday cake (like a piece of cake is really going to make a difference on the A1C? )  Still, once this twice yearly "joy" is done, we can arrange for me to have a nice chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and maybe some vanilla ice creamme. The only question will be do I take most of the cake to work or to Kathie's work place? I'm inclined to take it to my work place...

    Grandma Lil's Birthday


    Breakfast:cheerios and coffee
    Snack:ark chocolate 
    Lunch:Abby's for a chicken sandwich and iced water
    Snack:dark chocolate and popcorn
    Dinner:Healthy Choice Meatloaf and iced water
    Snack:ttttt

    Five days of not using the inhaler

    Monday, August 13, 2012

    11 August 2012

    _____Breakfast: at the McPherson Best Western, where we had the free breakfast:
    • SOS on a biscuit
    • a pancake from a pancake machine
    • sausage sticks
    • coffee
    • orange ju8ice
    ________Lunch:  We went to Montana Mikes and ran into 7 other Lions. So I had
    • salad with French dressing
    • chicken fried streak (very large and very good!)
    • mashed potatoes with white gravy
           Snack:two strawberry Daiquir at Montana Mikey's bar

    _______Dinner:  Dinner: The convention center where our dinner was catered in for a buffet:
    • salad with
      • Thousand Island Dressing



  • veggie mix of
    • carrots
    • broccoli
  • mashed potatoes with brown gravy
  • stewed roast beef
  • roll
  • apple strudel



  • Pre-Bed Snack: cookies and iced water at the Lions Hospitality Room.





    The Kansas Lions in McPherson sponsored  the Hospitality Room with
    • cake
    • cookies
    • meat
    • crackers
    • coffee
    • water




    Sunday, August 12, 2012

    10 August 2012

    _____Breakfast:  Cheerios and coffee
    ________Lunch:  Healthy Choice chicken
    _______Dinner: at the Best Western in McPherson, Kansas,. at the Lions Convention
                    Snack: two bottles of MDG
    • salad
    • small piece of chicken fried steak
    • mashed potatoes with white gravy
    • water
    This meal was catered by the McPherson Kansas Montana Mikes.
    The Kansas Lions in McPherson sponsored  the Hospitality Room with
    • cake
    • cookies
    • meat
    • crackers
    • coffee
    • water


    Thursday, August 09, 2012

    9 August 2012

    Breakfast: cherios and coffee
     
    Snack: dark chocolate and coffee
     
    Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for the monthly Lions Board Meeting:
    • french dip sandwich
    • french fries
    • glass of "Diet Pepsi"
    • iced water
    Snack: some Little Oreos and coffee
     
    Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water...

    Wednesday, August 08, 2012

    7 August 2012

    Breakfast:Milk toast and coffee
    Snack:coffee and piece of dark chocolate
    Lunch:tat Taco Hell Bell for:
    • three tacos and
    • split an order of Nachos with Kathie and
    • a "Diet Coke"
    Snack:little piece of cake at work
    Dinner:two pieces of Dillions deep fat "fried" chicken at work and cold water
    Snack:an MGD beer and slice of dour dough bread with peanut butter and grape jelly

    Monday, August 06, 2012

    6 August 2012

    Breakfast:cherios aqnd coffee
    Snack:dark chocolate
    Lunch:We had lunch at "Bella Italia" and were very favourably impress with both the service and the food. They have changed cooks since we were there last and it really shows. Also, the waitress was extremely attentive without being overbearing. This is a hard balance to reach but this young lady did it!



    I had lettuce salad with vinigar and oil, speghetti with meat sauce and a couple of glasses of "Diet Coke, no ice".
    We are planning on going back after our semi-annual MD physicals so it will be around 18 August 2012. I plan on having the lazanna.
    Snack:         asmtha inhailor and coffee
    Dinner:        Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner
    Snack:ttttt

    Blood sugar:
    Exercise:

    Sunday, August 05, 2012

    5 August 2012

    Breakfast:we went to the Knights Of Columbus for their breakfast supporting Breast Cancer Support. I had:

    • excellent SOS on a biscuit
    • a superb egg, cheese casserole
    • two sausage patties
    • a ½ of a pastry
    • cup of coffee
    • glass of orange juice
    • glass of water (I was really thirsty)
    Snack:ttttt
    Lunch:Kathie made turkey sandwiches and I had one with a glass of cold water.
    Snack:strawberries and melted dark chocolate and later, a 12 oz bottle of Lost Trail Diet ROOT BEER.
    Dinner:At the Rodeo where I had a small Pizza Hutt pizza and bottle of water. Then, I bought a funnel cake, which we split.
    Snack:gin-n-tonic

    Exercise:

    Saturday, August 04, 2012

    4 August 2012

    Breakfast:McDonald's for two bacon egg and cheese sandwich, the potatoe slabs with I took home and put in the refer (and will probably throw out in a couple of weeks). It was not what anyone could have called a special meal; we had planned on going out for a special breakfast...
    Snack:dark chocolate and coffee
    Lunch:Montana Mike's for a half pound hamburger with bacon and fries and "Diet Pepsi"

    We had to tell our waitress the cooik had left the bacon off both our hamburgers. She immediately brought out a couple of slices for both of us. That was a nice touch and helped her tip out...
    Snack:ttt.
    Dinner:We ushered at the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo and had a hamburger and bottle of water each. Later, we split an pastry (funnel cake), covered with strawberry sauce and strawberry.
    Snack:just some water and mucinex

    Exercise:  I stood around being an usher at the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo and this counts for about  2½ hours of "walking under 2 mph" (according to the Presidents Exercise committee web page)

    ¿So we wanted a nice sit-down Saturday breakfast?

    Kathie and I have the day off and decided to go some place nice for a sit-down breakfast. I talked her into ordering off the menu vice doing a buffet. I was looking forward to a special morning...

    We decided to go out for breakfast and  decided to go to the "Inn Pancake House". There were no cars in the extra parking lot across the street and an elderly woman walking toward the only car in their parking lot.  Kathie said "they must be closed" and we drove around the front of the Inn Pancake House. There was a sign that read We are closed for updates to better serve you.

    This is the Dodge City Rodeo Days and there are a lot of people in town. This is a wonderful time for a restaurant to make money. My wife suggested they must have been closed by the Health Department.

    We then went to the Dodge House and their parking lot was crammed. We didn't even bother trying to go in...

    We went by Kathe's and they were closed.

    We went by Mike Casey's "Casey's Cowtown" and there were only two cars out front (including the owner's sister's car).

    Kathie was not pleased with "Home of Jo-nes" the last time she went there so we didn't go there. I was happy with them the last time I went there.

    "Montana Mike's" and "Applebee's" simply don't serve breakfast!

    We tried going to a restaurant my wife had heard of but simply could not find it!
     
    We refuse to go to "Cha-Cha's" Place for various reasons (mainly fucking over the waitresses, not paying her taxes and spending operating funds at the casino in the silly hope she could recoop her business loses...). If the only

    We thought about going to a nearby town to have breakfast but didn't feel like driving that far.

    We went to McDonald's because they have decaf coffee and Burger King does not. Both are nice places to grab a quick breakfast early on a work day.

    Neither are "special" as in "a special place to have a nice sit down breakfast".

    As an aside, we were ushers at the Dodge City Rodeo and only paid $2 for the meal and a can of Diet Pepsi.


    P.S.: It was only after we had "breakfast" that I remembered that Sonic and Subway Sub have "breakfast". That is, they serve items  from that meal but nothing very great.

    Update 4 August 2012: My wife knows some of the waitresses at "Inn Pancake House". She was told that about three weeks ago, the waitresses were yelling at the cooks to get them to work faster. To me, this sounds like a work slowdown on the part of the cooks. Speculation is the cooks were fired and management is rebuilding. 
    Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain  wrote you that you can tell the cleanliness of the kitchen based on the cleanliness of the public toilets. I've always thought their toilets were reasonably clean and does my wife. Thus, their kitchen is probably clean.

    Update 5 August 2012: We discussed this with comeone well connected in the business community and found out "Inn Pancake House" was shut down by the state for cleaniness purposes.  I am quite disappointed. 

    Friday, August 03, 2012

    3 August 2012

    Breakfast:grits and butter and coffee
    Snack:some dark chocolate and coffee
    Lunch:We went to King's Buffet and I had rice, various chicken and some beef dishes, ice creamme and chocolate pudding plus two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
    Snack:coffee and a chunk of dark chocolate
    Dinner:I went to the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo (same as last night) and had:

    • barbecued pulled beef with Bar-b-que sauce
    • a roll
    • ear of corn on the cob
    • can of Diet Pepsi
    I was still hungry and since the price for this fine meal was only $2, I had seconds!  Actually, I wanted a second ear of corn and figured "what the hell" and had some more beef...,

    Snack:gin-n-tonic and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich (I had forgotten to take my evening pills before dinner)


    Exercise: I ushered for about 2½ hour, which meant I was on my feet the entire time and walking under 2 mph.

    2 August 2012

    Breakfast:eggs cooked in the omelet maker and a pork chop.
    Snack:ttttt
    Lunch:piece of sirloin steak
    Snack:a medium Dairy Queen ice creamme cone dipped in chocolate and later, some dark chocolate at home
    Dinner:First, a little pizza and later, a peanut butter  and grape jelloy sandwich
    Snack:gin-n-tonic
    Exercise: I ushered for about 2½ hour, which meant I was on my feet the entire time and walking under 2 mph.

    Wednesday, August 01, 2012

    1 August 2012

    _____Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee
    _
    _______Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for:

    • chicken strips
    • french fries
    • roll with 
      • top ½ grape jelly
      • bottom ½ with strawberry jelly
    • cold water
    _______Dinner: boiled pork chops, boiled spaghetti noodles and cold water

                    Snack: orange sherbet with dark chocolate shell

    31 July 2012

    Breakfast:cherios and coffee
    Snack:little Oreostt
    Lunch:can of Healthy choice chicken and noddle soup
    Snack:I was still hungry so I had three chicken legs from Dillions, some of the fancy "baked" potatoes, and later, some chervbert and chocolate syhrup.
    Dinner:Healthy Choice chicken and cold water
    Snack:gin-n-tonic

    Blood sugar: AM 95, PM 132
    Exercise:

    Monday, July 30, 2012

    30 July 2012

    Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee
    Lunch: grits with a can of creamme of chicken soup on it and a can of PEPSI ONE.

    Snack: some orange sherbert with chocolate topping

    Dinner: ham and roast beef sandwich, a small amont of cole slaw, cold water, orange sherbert with chocolate sauce

    Sunday, July 29, 2012

    29 July 2012

    Breakfast:A bowl of Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls: Bacon, Eggs, Potatoes and Cheddar Cheese  and coffee
    Snack:potatoe chips
    Lunch:two bierocks and a bottle of Diet Pepsi
    Snack:some little Oreos
    Dinner:We had origionally planned on having cold cut sandwiches but Kathie watered our garden this morning. She picked some of our peppers and so she boiled a home grown pepper with chopped onion with a bottle of beer. She then put 6 brots in and slow cooked them all afternoon. It was quite good and I had two in buns and a third on the plate. I drank an MGD with this.

    It was all quite good!
    Snack:several little sugar donuts

    Blood sugar:
    Exercise:

    Saturday, July 28, 2012

    28 July 2012

    Breakfast:Cheerios without milk, I had forgotten that I'd taken the milk home from work on Wednesday. Oh, well, they went well with coffee...
    Snack:Little Oreos
    Lunch:boiled pork chop and the rest of the mashed potatoes and margarine and some cold water
    Snack:some dark chocolate and orange sherbet for desert
    Dinner:roasted chicken and cold water
    Snack:a gin-n-tonic

    Blood sugar:
    Exercise:

    Friday, July 27, 2012

    27 July 2012

     
    Breakfast:I was very hungry at 5 am so I had a slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and a cup of coffee and felt better. 


    Then, for breakfast, we went to the Inn Pancake House. There I had:

    • pork SOS on hash browns
    • a small amount of scrambled eggs
    • a link sausage,
    • biscuit with grape jelly and a couple of cups of coffee. Sometimes, too much caffeine with put me to sleep and this happened after I got home....
    Snack:dark chocolate and coffee
    Lunch:We went to Burger King and I had fish sticks, french fries and a large "Diet Coke" (I hope it doesn't screw up my sleep tonight.)
    Snack:dark chocolate
    Dinner:One and a half boiled pork chops, some mashed potatoes with margarine and cold water.
    Snack:ttttt

    Blood sugar:
    Exercise:

    Thursday, July 26, 2012

    26 July 32012

    Breakfast: Burger King for
    • SOS on biscuits
    • potatoe disks
    • large coffee
    Snack: dark chocolate and coffee

    Lunch: at the Tri Amigos for:

    • enchiladas and taco
    • Mexican rice and beans
    • "Diet Coke" with no ice
    We were seated quickly but "our" waitress took a long time to get around to giving us water and asking for out orders. Then, she was inattentive when it came to filling my "Diet Coke, no ice:".  Yes, there was ice in the drink she brought me. 

    When I asked for a refill, my wife reminded "our" waitress: "Diet Coke, NO ICE.  "Our" waitress said "yes" and then brought a "Diet Coke, with a little ice".
    This cost "our" waitress at tip time.


    Dinner:  Healthy Choice fish dinner with a piece of dark chocolate and a bottle of room temperature bottled water.



    Blood sugar: AM 118  PM  98

    Exercise: 35 minutes on the treadmill

    Wednesday, July 25, 2012

    25 July 2012

    Breakfast: bowl of wheaties and coffee
     
    Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a steak sandwich (which was quite good), french fries, a small bowl of cottage cheese and iced water.
     
    Snack: several little Oreo cookies (When  I was driving to Lions, I suddenly became hungry. When I was in the meeting room and waiting or my order, I started feeling very hungry, was covered with cold sweat, shakey and didn't feel too good. This struck me as a "touch" of hypoglycemia. After eating, I felt much better. I stopped sweating and the hunger greately abated...

    Tuesday, July 24, 2012

    24 July 2012






    Breakfast: cheerios and coffee 


    Lunch #1: a can of chicken

    Lunch #2: I went to Wendys and got:
    • a double hamburger
    • baked potatoe
    • chocolate milk shake
    Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate

    Dinner: a little something my wife probably would not like (mashed potatoes...)
    • a couple of little steaks and
    • mashed potatoes
    • plus a bottle of Landshark beer


    Monday, July 23, 2012

    23 July 2012

    I had a Vir Cotto moment around 11:30 pm last night
    Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee
    Lunch: a peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough bread sandwich and a PEPSI ONE.

    Snack: a piece of dark chocolate 

    Dinner:

    Sunday, July 22, 2012

    22 July 2012

    Breakfast: microwaved grits (which turned out pretty bad) and butter plus coffee

           Snack: some spoon sized shredded wheat

           Lunch:  We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I  had:

    • several teaspoons of chili
    • cooked spaghetti and sauce
      • sauteed ham,
      • sauteed garlic,
      • sauteed noodles
      • and white sauce
    • two rolls with butter
    • an overcooked and low on meat chicken back
    • a potatoe casserole
    • vanilla ice creamme with chocolate syrup

    I was rather pissed off because the chef went straight to the white sauce without telling me he had red sauce in a lidded pan. I had ham because they did not offer hamburger or even Italian sausage.The food turned out well but I would have been happier with red sauce and browned hamburger.

    I went to the "Player Desk" to bitch about this. They told me to go talk to the restaurant. This is bullshit! You would think a "Player Desk" would talk with the restaurant on behalf of the customer. Apparently, they don't agree...
    I don't like the way the Casino runs the restaurant. We had to pay for the buffet in advance; this was too much like a quick food place! Kathie had to pay for her glass of white wine and I had to pay for my "Diet Pepsi" in advance!  I could have gotten a "Diet Pepsi" for free on the casino floor but I don't think I could have taken it into the restaurant.
    The Casino Restaurant no longer has breakfast buffet so my breakfast club members card is useless. They no longer have lunch off the menu, you must take a buffet lunch or go to the snack bar. As a side note, they replaced a craps table, at the entrance to the casino, with a hot dog stand.
    This ain't no shit!  They really did put in a hog dog stand; it totally lacks class.

           Dinner:  a can of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup (definitely emergency rations) and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and a glass of cold water.



    A couple of hours after going to bed, I "came down with: vomiting. I don't what I ate but Kathie thinks it was some sliced turkey as she wasn't feeling very well herself. This had the main result of screwing up my sleep and causing me to make a couple of errors at work. This reminds me of what Vir Cotto said:
    "...it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-""

    21 July 2012

    Breakfast: cherior and coffee
     
    Snack: peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough and coffee
     
    Lunch: ham sandwich and part of a fresh tomatoe from our garden (which really tasted good!)
     
    Snack: while watching the latest Batman movie, popcorn and "Diet Pepsi"
     
    Dinner: A "French Dip" sandwich from Arbys with potatoe chips at home and a bottle of MDG

    Friday, July 20, 2012

    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...

    Wednesday, July 18, 2012

    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

    Tuesday, July 17, 2012

    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

    Monday, July 16, 2012

    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

    Sunday, July 15, 2012

    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...

    Saturday, July 14, 2012

    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, July 13, 2012

    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

    Thursday, July 12, 2012

    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

    Wednesday, July 11, 2012

    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

    Tuesday, July 10, 2012

    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...

    Sunday, July 08, 2012

    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...

    Saturday, July 07, 2012

    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.

    Friday, July 06, 2012

    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...

    Thursday, July 05, 2012

    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

    Wednesday, July 04, 2012

    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...

    Tuesday, July 03, 2012

    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

    Monday, July 02, 2012

    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...

    Sunday, July 01, 2012

    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.