TheCG

Heat + humidity + lots more walking = very swollen feet/ankles.

The wind was blowing hard enough on my way home yesterday that the dirt in the construction area was almost obstructing the view of the cars in front of me.  Went through pouring rain, then turned on our road and had a state trooper and an ambulance go past.  Got home where it was just sprinkling, parked under the metal carport next door, got out, and thought it was hailing because the rain was hitting so hard.  It briefly let up, long enough for me to get back to the house.  As I opened the screen door, it started picking up again.  I don't know how much came down, but it sure filled the moat (drainage ditch across the front of the house) quickly!

9 hours ago, Mt_Rider said:

TheCG.....you might want to research Adrenal Fatigue.  aka...burned-out adrenal glands.  If it's that, your 'sheer stuborness' eventually won't work and you'll be much further from healing when you reach that point. 

 

MtRider  ....ask me how I know.  BTDT

Yup, that's what we're working on avoiding with supplementation and dietary changes and such.

She's having me look at Dr. Gundry's Plant Paradox - I have known issues with a LOT of the things on his no-no list, but I'm not sure I believe some of his other recommendations.  I'm still processing.

My alternative medicine lady told me that you really need functioning adrenals to fast, and I don't have that.  To the point where she is pondering how I actually function.  I told her sheer stubbornness.    

Basically...I have enough energy to fake it through work (not firing on all cylinders, but still productive enough to keep all the balls in the air), but when I'm done, I'm done and pretty much have nothing left.  I'm also not digesting food (which I already knew), so I'm sure that helps.  About 15 pounds of the 40 I've gained in the last year after going to work full-time are probably from inflammation, so we're working on figuring out what's triggering that (she thinks I'm probably getting exposed to mold somewhere - I'm highly allergic to most kinds).  

Working on supplementation and a few other things.

FYI - I go to alternative medicine practitioners rather than a doctor because the doctors out here either suck to the point that they misdiagnose thrush as strep (yeah, antibiotics are not the answer for fungal infections) or do very very expensive concierge care.  I haven't found an in between yet.  We pretty much only go to the doctor when we absolutely have to.

A local police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local Police website:

"I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"

The SGT working that day replied to the question....

First of all, let me tell you this... it's not easy. In the rural area we average one cop for every 505 people. Only about 60 per cent of those cops are on general duty where we do most of our harassing.

The rest are in non-harassing units that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. At any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60 per cent of general duties are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So, roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 6000 residents.

When you toss in the commercial business and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 15,000 or more people a day.

Now, your average eight-hour shift runs 28,800 seconds long. This gives a cop two-thirds of a second to harass a person, and then only another third of a second to drink an iced coffee AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to the challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilise some tools to help us narrow down those people we can realistically harass.

PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. "My neighbour is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment. Another popular one is, "There's a guy breaking into a house." The harassment team is then put into action.

CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or drivers with no licences and the like. It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.

LAWS: When we don't have phone or cars, and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "statutes". These include the Crimes Act, Summary Offences Act, Land Transport Act and a whole bunch of others... They spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the law, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offences and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, the book says that’s not allowed. That meant I had permission to harass this guy.

It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well. We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because, for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.

Next time you are in the area, give me the old "single finger wave". That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can harass me." It's one of our favourites.

I splurged and upgraded my Kindle to the new waterproof Paperwhite with 32GB of memory yesterday.  After trading in an old one and the discounts and such, under $50.

My priest is suggesting that I join him on a 21-day fast, or whatever parts of it I can handle.  I've been exhausted, stressed out, and having major digestive issues.  I told him everybody else in the office might wish I didn't by about 3 pm.  I have an appointment with an alternative practitioner who generally steers me right at 12:30, so I'm planning to fast until then and see what she thinks of the idea.  But...I'm still drinking my cup of coffee in the morning, or I will be dead by noon.

Here's a list I've seen bandied about as why English is such a hard language to learn:

1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 
2. The farm was used to produce produce. 
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 
4. We must polish the Polish furniture. 
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 
10. I did not object to the object. 
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 
13. They were too close to the door to close it. 
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present. 
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number. 
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear. 
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

They might not quite be what you're talking about, but they're fun to read!

Yesterday was the first day that the National Weather Service station in our area (west Texas & southeastern New Mexico) had absolutely no storm watches going on since April 15.

Well, perhaps we shouldn't have planned a vacation in the NOLA area during hurricane season.  We still have a few weeks for them to dry out.

It seems I can't mentally handle sticking to ANY plan right now. 

*sigh*

I've got to figure out how to get healthy food (in my world, low carb mostly real food) done while working full time.

So...if you're an Amazon Prime member, they have a deal today (under their "early deals' for their big mid-month sale coming up) for 3 months FREE of Kindle Unlimited.

Yes, please!

ETA: It also pops up next to Kindle books where you would normally have the option to set up Kindle Unlimited.

2 hours ago, Mt_Rider said:

THEN I had to look up  tl;dr   ....."too long; didn't read"  .....apparently the horror of writers who've submitted something to teachers or editors.  Or someone getting sassy in the Comments section of an Internet article somewhere.....as if they ARE an editor and we are all in need of their assessment.   

 

MtRider    .....oll korrect then!   

tl;dr is also used at the very beginning or end of a long story to provide a 1-2 line summary.

21 hours ago, snapshotmiki said:

No xylitol for me!  Warned DH about it a couple years ago.  The sweetener does say maltodextrin (sugar) and stevia extract.  Also says zero calorie and less than one carb.  Thanks for the charts!

The serving size is going to be tiny so that there's a smidge less than 0.5g carbs in it, as that's where they have to declare it as 1.  

I use flavored stevia drops in my coffee - about 15 drops for a pint-size jar of coffee.  I tend to mix flavors, as for some reason, it tastes better.  I like the SweetLeaf brand - it's $10 for a 2 ounce bottle, but they last us for several months.

On 5/7/2019 at 2:17 PM, Mt_Rider said:

On a related [sort of] topic.......folks were having intermittent trouble with their electronic key fobs and garage door openers working.  Finally found out why......  But that makes ya wonder!  Those who have keyless entry would be in a world of hurt if they had a dog or child or elderly in the car.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/key-fobs-north-olmsted-ohio.html

 

MtRider  ....computers and electronics are great....until they aren't.    

Hmmm...I know my fob comes apart to have a key there.  I should probably make sure I know where it goes in if the battery in the fob dies!

7 minutes ago, Annarchy said:

The ingredients in the recipe you posted, says raw cauliflower purée.  

 

I’ve seen a few Tasty.com videos where they purée the raw cauliflower. Interesting recipes. 

Dur.  Works better if I actually read.

Hmmm...I wonder if either my blender or food processor is powerful enough to puree it raw.

On 5/29/2019 at 9:11 AM, kappydell said:

About 10 yr ago I read of a new exec who was assigned a coach to help them adjust to the demands of high finance exec life...had to teach the person how to speak properly, dress properly, and basic standards of upper class behavior (Emily post and such).  I wonder if they even bother, or if having standards is somehow now considered extinct?  Somehow I think one is still judged, its just nobody dares say anything out loud...

Oh, I'm pretty certain there are still standards they are expected to maintain, but they're different depending on what area (geographically and industry-wise) one is in.

I pointed out to the kids that when I was looking for an assistant to help out with publications, I flat out rejected about 30-35 of 40 resumes because they had errors in them.  If you're not going to take the time to proof (or have someone else proof) your own resume, why would I trust you with my publications?

On 5/27/2019 at 4:03 PM, Midnightmom said:

Awesome BROWNIES.......................made with cauliflower!!! Yep, cauliflower. 

 

Link to recipe:     https://www.delish.com/cooking/nutrition/a27411387/keto-cauliflower-brownies-recipe/

 

Does "cauliflower puree" mean cooked cauliflower run through the food processor/blender?

10 hours ago, Jeepers said:

Bing cherries are in season and I got a bag full. Once a year I splurge on them. Sometimes even twice a year. 

Cherries!

And I regularly let people go in front of me if I've got a cartload and they've only got one or 2 things.  Especially if they're obviously on break during the holidays.

9 hours ago, Mt_Rider said:

I always advise folks...buy some ice cream.  This is your test.  If you have to leave    when you return, the ice cream will tell you if the freezer has been warmed up and then frozen again when they turn the electric back on.  Because ice cream always looks different if it has thawed.  And if so --- the other contents of the freezer have to be thrown out.  Insurance does usually cover that loss, btw.  I hope I stated that ice-cream test clearly.   

We freeze a half-full water bottle that's sitting straight up, then turn it on it's side.  If the water is still in the same half, no problem.  If the water is now on the half that's laying down, problem.

The soap is a surfactant (I think that's the right word).  It basically breaks the surface tension so they fall down in rather than staying on the surface.

If I seem incommunicado for the rest of this week and next week, it's because I'm heading out for a conference on Sunday so I'm trying to get everything ready this week.  

We had wild storms coming through last night.  Luckily no hail damage to the vehicles.  Had a tornado watch/warning a few times.  Probably need to get somebody out to check the roof.  Some of our electric outlets seem to not be working now (I did flip the breaker and check the GFCI outlet).  Hoping we don't have to call an electrician.

6 hours ago, Mt_Rider said:

Wow, TheCG.      This stuff is really messing up our ability to do normal activities.  We've always had an unlisted number.....and that obviously has not helped either.  Course we've had this number for decades and with the random dialing, it will hit listed and unlisted the same.

 

MtRider  .....time for a brand new technology?   

I already have to introduce an app and a people software to all the folks up at church.  I am NOT trying to explain more brand new technology any time soon. 

I get calls from local numbers, and I'm worried about blocking them since I work at a church and my cell phone number is out there for the church members to call if they need to.  

I've gotten a few calls from people who say they've missed a call from my number, and explained to them that it's scammers making it look like they're calling from a local number.