20 September 2016

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Breakfast: Bowl of grits with a soft boiled egg mixed in and coffee

Lunch: a “Mexican” meal of

·       Two Enclaletias

·       One Taco

·       Refried beans

·       Rice

·       “Diet Coke”

Snack: Tapioca with a small amount of dark chocolate chips

Dinner:  A TV chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, corn, brownie and water

Snack: A small amount of Tapioca and then a gin-n-tonic

AM 77 PM 138

19 September 2016

Monday, 19 September 2016

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: Big bowl of tomatoe soup with two hot dogs and coffee

Dinner: A quarter of a pizza (meat pizza) and a bottle of Landshark.

Snack: a small amount of dark chocolate chips

Snack-2:  A gin and tonic

18 September 2016

Sunday, 18 September 2916

Breakfast: at the Hutchinson  Hampton Inn for

• SOS on biscuit
• Two English muffins with peanut butter and strawberry jam
• Coffee

Lunch: a roast beef with gravy sandwich at the Hutchinson Fair

            And Diet Pepsi

Snack: two big scoops of chocolate chip ice creamme

Dinner:  two ears of corn on the cob and the slice of bread I had buttered

             Bottle of Landshark

Snack: single slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and grape jelly

 

Sunday, 18 September 2916

Breakfast: at the Hutchinson  Hampton Inn for

• SOS on biscuit
• Two English muffins with peanut butter and strawberry jam
• Coffee

Lunch: a roast beef with gravy sandwich at the Hutchinson Fair

            And Diet Pepsi

Snack: two big scoops of chocolate chip ice creamme

Dinner:  two ears of corn on the cob and the slice of bread I had buttered

             Bottle of Landshark

Snack: single slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and grape jelly

 

17 September 2016

Saturday, 17 September 2016

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs and coffee

Snack: ham sandwich

Lunch: pork sandwich and Diet Pepsi

Dinner: at the Hutchinson Loan Star:

• Salad
• 8 oz. filet with bacon wrap
• Baked potatoe
• Two Sam Adams Octoberfest beers!

September 16, 2016

Friday, September 16, 2016

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs

           Two slices sour dooue toast with grape jelly

           Coffee

Lunch: We went to a “Chinese Place” (King’s Buffet) and I had:

·         Rice

·         Chicken dishes

·         A little beef

·         Noodles

·         Some ice creamme and fortune “good advice cookies”

·         Glasses (2) of “Diet Pepsi”

Snack: piece of dark chocolate

Dinner: Bisquit quiche and

        A large coffee cup of White Zinfelal.

September 15, 2016

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee


Snack: small amount of dark chocolate fudge


Lunch: bowl of Campbell’s Ceamme of Tomatoe soup with two boiled hot dogs and a single slice of sour dough bread withg peanut butter and grape jelly. I drank some water.


Snack: Perhaps a teaspoon of dark chocolate fudge Snack 2: Late afternoon for a small amount of potatoe chips and about a tablespoon of peanut butter.


Dinner: I brought back a tray of lazanna, which Kathie and I split. We reduced the cooking time and yet it still turned out a bit burned. Well, better luck next time…


AM 118 PM 108
I’ve found that a high AM score either results in a high PM score (~220 or so) or a low PM score (~105-115). I repent having told my brother Charlie that he should have been able to control his blood sugar easily. I have been a type two for 12 years 4 months and 9 days and I know that it is not easy!


AFTERMATH: I felt a return to the stomach pain immediately after lunch. Hopefully, I will be able to take one of my missing stomach pill (I had to get a refill) and this will make me feel better… Blood: Being diabetic, my MD has me testing my blood sugar first thing in the morning Tuesdays and Thursday and two hour after I “put down the fork” after dinner. It is fairly cheap and no problem. I seldom actually feel the “sting” of the needle.

better "food plan"

I need a better food plan to try to get my A1C under better control. Kathie is finally willing to go along with this effort and my problem?  I can't really think of a good plan. So, I guess I'll be working through the "food plans" given in the American Diabetic Association web pages.

14 September 2016 revised

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Breakfast: Milk toast and coffee

Lunch: At the Dodge City Community College for:

·         Spanish rice

·         Stewed pork chunks

·         Corn on the cob

·         Salad

·         Chocolate cake for desert

·         Glass of Diet Pepsi

Snack: small chunk (about a teaspoon worth) of dark chocolate fudge and a teaspoon of peanut butter

Dinner:   Kathie’s  “Mexican”, which is:

·         Hamburger and seasoning

·         Smashed refried beans

·         Shredded cheese

·         Salsa

·         tortillas

·         Half a Fosters in the oil can size!

I had two of the tortillas and half the can of Fosters. Kathie had the other can. We both enjoyed this beer!

Desert: a couple of bites of dark chocolate fudge.

AFTERMATH    I ended up with massive indigestion and stomach pain. I took Tums twice and “pink” (Pepto Mismol) once. Then, when I woke up Thursday morning, I had a nasty “Pepto” taste in my mouth.

14 September 2016

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Breakfast: Milk toast and coffee

Lunch: At the Dodge City Community College for:

·         Spanish rice

·         Stewed pork chunks

·         Corn on the cob

·         Salad

·         Chocolate cake for desert

·         Glass of Diet Pepsi

Snack: small chunk (about a teaspoon worth) of dark chocolate fudge and a teaspoon of peanut butter

Dinner:   Kathie’s  “Mexican”, which is:

·         Hamburger and seasoning

·         Smashed refried beans

·         Shredded cheese

·         Salsa

·         tortillas

·         Half a Fosters in the oil can size!

I had two of the tortillas and half the can of Fosters. Kathie had the other can. We both enjoyed this beer!

Desert: a couple of bites of dark chocolate fudge.

 

lilttle Gods...

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I nearly drown in late 1987 (and haven't scuba dived since) and thought I was having a heart attack when I was 35 years old. My youngest brother died of congestive heart failure at age 44 years, 1 month, 8 days. You don't have to be "old" to worry about death and it's aftermath.

I am not a lawyer so contact one with your legal questions; I'm just someone whose youngest brother died intestate or "without a will"". Here are some suggestions based on what my brothers (especially Jim) and I experienced:

Before you die, before you even get sick, make a will telling what you want:

• done with your body:

  • creamation or

  • embalming and burial,

  • who does the work,

  • your plans for payment,

  • burial site

  • or ash disposal instructions (i.e.: placement at a Veteran's Cemetary, a nice spot in your curio cabinet, burial with relatives, scattering at sea or the back yard),

• You might plan your funeral service (I had a friend - Karla Jean Miller - who planned her funeral in complete detail. My youngest brother made no such plans; my brothers and I ended up going to our ministers to get advice...)

• how to notify your boss(es),

• who gets your stuff,

• who you owe money to,

• what liens are out on your property (i.e. on your car title!),

• bank accounts,

• 401Ks,

• life insurance policies (and did you "borrow" money from it/them?)

• what storage lockers you are renting,

• what bank lock boxes or safe deposit boxes do you rent,

• your email data,

• social network accounts,

• blogs,

• newspapers and magazines you subscribe to,

• what you want done with your dogs, cats, birds, fish (feed to cats?),"pet snakes" (now there is an oxymoron!),

• a list of where you keep your medications and "sharps",

• do you automatically get meds from a pharmacy (I do...) with billing afterwards,

• and a list of folks to be notified with their phone numbers, email and mail addresses,

• a list of files/directories on your computer(s) you want to give away. (i.e. I had my father's home movies from when I was in 1^st grade translated to DVD but never got around to sending them to my brothers...) and,
• a list of files/directoried you want purged before anyone gets your "old" computer(s) or it is sent to the breakers

All of this could be done on a couple of sheets of paper. You could sort bills and put them in a cheap, plastic, filing cabinet.

Contact the various companies your will's executor will have to deal with. If you die without a will, a judge may appoint a successor. If a successor is appointed, better hope it is a friend or relative who will work with your relatives or friends to determine who gets what. A court appointed successor might not be a friend to your kith and kin.

I explained this to a friend, the head of the local hospice. She said "get a living will and keep it up to date!"

You might consider writing your obituary; think of it as a permanent, uneditable, "wikipedia" entry on newspaper.

It just occurred to me that you could set aside money to buy booze and munchies for your wake. ("Won't be any 'lite' beer or Mad Dog or 'Ultra' at my wake!") Just a thought, albeit a bit morbid...

If you find an overdue VCR or DVD, expect to pay the overdue fine (unless you drop it in the slot and trundle off); I don't think they'll buy the "but it's overdue cause the renter died...

Finally, you might as well write down the library you borrow from and keep library books, etc. in a conveient place for their return. It never occurred to me to look for any library books or CDs my youngest brother might have checked out; his room mate would have dealt with this...

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homemade tomatoe soup

My homemade tomotoe soup is based on a couple of other recipes.

In one sauce pan,  I boiled a medium onion and two cloves of garlic in 2 cups of chicken broth. I blended this and added a 6 oz. can of tomatoe paste.

In another and larger sauce pan, a simmered a 28 oz can of tomatoes in juice. This too was ground up in the blender.

I mixed both pans and simmered them some more. About 10 minutes before serving this soup, I added 1 cup of Half and Half. This was a fine soup!

The next time I made this, I will put the onion, garlic, tomatoe and tomatoe paste together in one pan and stew it there. Mayhap I will buy an immersion blender?

Next time, I will also add sausage (not hot dogs) to this soup and serve it with oyster crackers.

14 April 2016

***********_____Breakfast: corned beef hash, 2 eggs and coffee
                Snack: piece of bread with peanut butter and grape jelly and a cup of coffee
________Lunch: Home made tomatoe soup with 2 hot dogs and a big peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich.
  _______Dinner:  At Casey's Cowtown for the Annual Lions Dinner and had:

• salad
• grilled chicken
• baked potatoe with butter, sour creamme and white gravy
• corn
• roll with butter and grape jelly and
• glass of water...

Pre-Bed Snack:




AM:  73  PM  229








I decided to try making home made tomatoe soup. Part of this calls for boiling and then simmering onion and garlic in chicken broth. I bought a quart of "organic" chicken broth at the 14th Street Dillions yesterday. This morning, I took the cap off and found...


...the foil protective cap was punched in by someone!




This means I cannot use this as I know the puncher's finger was dirty and I don't know how long this box of chicken broth was festering on the shelf. Next time, I will have a manager take the cap off so I can see if I've been cheated.




The customer services person was horrified and offered to refund me. I got another box of the chicken  broth and it had been opened to. I got a full refund and Dillions is looking into this.

13 April 2016

_____Breakfast: corned beef hash and 2 eggs plus coffee
________Lunch:  at the DCCC mess hall for sausage, potatoes, salad, desert and DP _______Dinner:  Healthy Choice chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and apple desert and water

12 April 2016

_____Breakfast: left over steak and left over baked potatoe and milk toast plus coffee
________Lunch:  We went to Kates. My hamburger and fries were great, the service was great and this was a much better experience that the first two times we went. I plan on going back... _______Dinner:  Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and cold water Pre-Bed Snack: none


AM:  68  PM:  193

Vir Coto

Babylon 5: Mediations of 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-"