8 November 2013

_____Breakfast:  scrambled eggs with a chopped up hot dog and coffee
________Lunch: two hot dogs and coffee
_______Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino and I had:

• salad and some chocolate pudding
• 8 oz salmon steak
• safron rice
• mixed veggies
• a chocolate cake volcano with fudge sauce
• iced water

Kathie told me she had read about a chemical in steak that caused folks like me to vomit after eating steak. So, I went with salmon.

We went gambling and I put a $10 bill in. I was gracefully losing my money when I won 1302 "credits" (pennies actually). I had gone up to $22⁵¹. I thought about continuing but remembered once deciding that I would cash out as soon as I 'hit it big".,  I cashed out,

Sure, this was a "big win: but considering that I've lost sometime like $40 this year, I won't get too thrilled about it...  (Still, I'm very happy with this win!)

18 August 2013

_____Breakfast: went to IHOP and had very good food and excellent service.  I was quite favourably impressed by this!  I had an all meat omlette with three buttermilk pancakes, iced water and coffee.

               Snack: some dark chocolate and another cup of coffee 

________Lunch: two hot dogs, bottle of Diet Pepsi and a chunk of dark chocolate.

All of the caffine  gave me a migrain; it wasn't painful as I took an overdose of pain killer.

_______Dinner:

Pre-Bed Snack:

17 August 2013

_____Breakfast: a breakfast sandwich (at home) and coffee

________Lunch: at a Lions District Cabinet meeting in Dighton where I had a ham/roast beef sandwich, some potatoe salad and desert. I drank some cold water and ice tea.

_______Dinner: At the Italian place at Napoli's Italian Restaurant at the Garden City Kansas airport where I had excellent spaghetti with meat balls and meat sauce and two rolls with butter and two beers. I had Budweiser as this has become my new default beer. It was not something too exotic or "light" or "lite" or that watered down "light" beer called "Ultra".  Back in the day before "lite" or "light" beer was invented, there were many excellent beers better than Bud. However, Henry Weinharts was bought out and the quality crapped out and Olympia was bought out and destroyed before many of today's current beer drinkers were ever born!

Pre-Bed Snack: A chunk or two of dark chocolate and cold water (I reached my C₂H₅OH limit for today at dinner...)

10 June 2013

_____Breakfast:  several stripes of bacon, two eggs boiled in said bacon, two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

________Lunch: a Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and water
 
_______Dinner:   at the Casino, salad, excellent prime rib, baked potatoe with butter, sour creamme and cottage cheese and 2 bottles of Bud...
 
Pre-Bed Snack: a cookie from the casino and a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

15 May 2013

_____Breakfast: 

________Lunch: at the Community College for Lions: 2 pork chops, rice with brown gravy, apple desert and a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

_______Dinner: We went to Dodge  House and they are now off the shit list! The food was quite good and we had very good service! I had:

• salad
• sirloin steak
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• small bowl of cottage cheese
• iced water

Pre-bed snack: a bottle of LandShark

24 November 2012 (updated)

Subject: 24 November 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: a couple of little Oreos and (more) coffee...

Lunch: the leftover roast beef and potatoes and a can of Pepsi Zero (definitely an acquired taste!)

Dinner:  Well, it won't be fancy like  and won't have  or even .  Oh, well

Snack: We went to a truly outstanding movie, "Skyfall" and split popcorn and "Diet Pepsi". The critics say that "Skyfall" is the best "Bond Movie ever" and I agree!  It simply was outstanding!

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

• a salad
• a small cup of veggie soup
• a "classic" roast beef, potatoes, carrots and onions dinner with basically raw cauliflower and broccoli. I drank iced water.
• We split a slice of chocolate for desert. Our waitress put two scoops of vanilla ice creamme on the plate and that went down well.  

 The food was good and the service well above average.

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.

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...

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
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Blood sugar:
Exercise:

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...

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

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.

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.