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Post by madmax on Oct 28, 2018 9:18:03 GMT -4
Again I'm getting a late start. It its 2:53am. I did my reading while watching some of the first hour of SNL. The last half hour was the David S Pumpkins cartoon. I continued during the commercials. I then continued until 1am, when I went in and took a nap for an hour. I figured Bones was maybe going to start late. At 2:27, Elementary came on. I think when that's over, they'll just show the 2nd half of the TMZ weekend show, and not show Bones. I finished my reading. I think from fatigue and/or stress, my brain wasn't working as well today, so it took my longer to finish. I then went to make some microwave popcorn, which I'll mention below.
Also, this was a stressful week. That always seems to happen after I take days off from work. I can't recall if it also happens after holidays. I did a lot of stress eating.
Now for the food.
Before I get to this week, I have 2 things regarding last week.
The brand of microwave popcorn is Pop Weaver, not Warner.
I was talking about the taste of that Summit ginger drink. I actually got up and looked at the ingredients, but for some reason forgot to change what I typed, since I actually posted it afterward. It does contain lemon, lime, and pineapple juices.
Now for this week.
Sat: I had 2 things. I'll start with the easier one.
I had a bag of hush puppies. I'm pretty sure they were the last brand as last time. I cooked them in the oil pot in 2 batches. When I did the 2nd batch, I think there was a bunch of ice mixed with them. When I put them in the oil, it bubbled too much, and a bunch spilled out. This was a good time to have an electric stove. If it was gas, I would've likely had a grease fire. Anyway, they were good.
The main item was catfish. They were advertised as nuggets. The way I define that would be small thick pieces. These were big flat pieces. I would maybe describe them as fillets. It was late, so I didn't feel like cutting them up. I put the pieces in a mix of flour and cornstarch for the most part. I tried mixing some things in with the powder. I did one piece each with black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin, and parmesan. I also tried rubbing some stuff on 2 pieces. One was hot sauce, and the other was mustard. I didn't try soy sauce for some reason. I put these pieces in the plain powder. I cooked the fish in my oil pot.
As for the taste, they were good. They had a decent amount of crispiness on the outside. As for the extra ingredients, the only one I tasted was cumin. I also tried having some stuff on the fish. I used a packet of tartar sauce from Long John Silver's. It was good. I also used a container of LJS cocktail sauce. It was good. I tried hot sauce which was ok. I also tried soy sauce, which wasn't that good.
Sun: I had a bag of Goldfish crackers. They were the Xplosive Pizza. They were good.
Mon: I had 3 snacks. First was a Maruchan Yakisoba noodles. It was the Teriyaki Chicken flavor. It was good. This time I added the right amount of water. Later I had the other 2. One was a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were good. The other was a bag of Clancy's Funyuns. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of broccoli. I didn't add my usual spices.... to the pan. I instead minced up most of the cloves from a bulb of garlic. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items. I didn't taste the garlic that much. I did taste it when I was burping on Tue.
Tue: I had a snack. I was a bag of generic croutons. They were Caesar flavor. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: This day was really stressful. I got an email saying I was selected for a "promotion" that I had interviewed for on Sep7 that I posted on Sep9. Usually, that would be good news. The BIG problem was the shift was WAAAYYYY later(10am-630pm) than what I'm used to. It would be to stressful for me to get home that late. I was stressed thinking about it. I came home and called my mom.
After I talked to my mom, I opened up a box of shredded wheat from ALDI. I also did the oil thing. I just kept on eating them. I may have eaten half the box.
I had another snack later which I won't review.
My meal was the same as Tue.
Thu: The only thing I remember being stressful was me replying to the previous day's email, declining the job offer. There was probably other stuff.
I had more shredded wheat, including the canola oil.
For a snack, I went to Taco Bell and got 2 things. First was a soft taco. I put a packet of Diablo sauce on it. It was good. The other item was a bean and cheese burrito. They don't have a plain bean burrito, or I would have gotten that instead. I took a bite without any sauce. I could taste the cheese, which I didn't really like. For the rest of it, I used 2 packets of Diablo sauce. It was good, and I couldn't taste the cheese. When I was at TB, I saw the girl doing the drive though pick up something off the floor, then not wash her hands. Thankfully, she didn't touch my food.
I got my meal at Arby's. I got 2 orders of onion rings and 4 Gyros(1 turkey, 1 Greek, 2 beef). While the food was good, I couldn't enjoy it. A bit before I was going to eat, the power went out. I was stressed worrying about when the power would come back on, and if I would get up late for work(it came back on about 100min later, and I could set my alarm). It was also a pain eating with just a flashlight to see. This meal was a do-over of Oct11. Part of mw wants to yet another do-over, and have the same meal next Thu. I don't know how long the 2/$6 promo will last. They might start something new on Thu(Nov1). Part of me wants to have something else. BK has their 2/$6 promo also.
Fri: I had shredded wheat throughout the day. I finished the box, except for a ton of crumbs.
I had 3 snack items. First was a can of Star Kist tuna. It was the kind in oil, which I've never had before. It was good. I could taste the oil. I don't know what situation you would use this instead of the tuna with water. Later was a bag of Harvest Snaps pea puffs. They were the Wasabi Ranch flavor. They were good. There was a bit of "wasabi" heat. I read online and/or saw on tv that most wasabi is actually horseradish.
My last snack was a bag of store-brand veggie chips from the h/n/o store. They were good. I had them 90min later than usual. I usually have a snack at 3:30am Sat while watching TMZ. I take a nap for an hour before that. Due to the World Series, I figured that would run over, and they would show TMZ "in progress" or not at all. I was going to watch the "11pm" showing after the news, after the game. As you might know, the game drew out to 18 innings. The news came on at 2:43am. Thankfully, they shortened the news so they could show all of TMZ at 3:30am. I then took my nap after. If I had known all of this, I would have taken my nap at my normal time.
Now for the meal. I made my veggies(including broccoli). When I use ramen instead of rice(or potatoes), I use 3 packages. I only had 2. This gave me an idea for an experiment. When I cook rice, I use 1 cup(uncooked). Since I had 2/3 of the ramen, I decide to make only 1/3 cup of rice. I cooked the rice in advance, and did the same with the ramen(Beef flavor) a while later. After I cooked the veggies in the pan, I added in the rice. After letting this cook for a while, I added in the ramen. I let this cook a while. I didn't add anything else. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items. I didn't notice the rice.
Sat: I wanted to mention something non-work-related that is indicative of my shitty week. My Fri meal was actually after noon on Sat. after that, I went to sleep. When I woke up, I did my daily reading. I saw a bug fly toward my one chair. I got up and moved the chair, and didn't see it. A bit after I sat down. I looked at another chair, and saw a fly. I was able to kill it after a bit. I then went to look at the kitchen window, and saw another fly. I killed that one right away. At 7:18pm, I went in the bathroom to take a dump. there was a fly on the wall. I swung my leg and thought I smashed it with my foot, since it looked like it was smashed on the bottom of my flip flop. A minute later, I looked at the wall and saw a fly. I don't know if it was a different one, or I didn't kill the first one. It took me a while to kill. I was finally able to when it was on the mirror; I think it got confused due to the reflection.
My snack was a bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I put it in for 1:36. There were only 5 unpopped kernels. I put some canola oil in the bag, even though I'm not sure if any of the popcorn was getting ready to burn. It was good.
That's all for the food. I'll have my meal later after I do some reading, and maybe another post. I think I'll also try to take a dump. I'm having 4 things. I'll do a review of at least 3 of them next week.
After dozing off at the computer, and taking a 2nd nap in bed it is now 8:17am.
See you next week, if I don't come back today.
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Post by madmax on Oct 28, 2018 11:53:56 GMT -4
Now back to my trip on Oct19.
The next stop was the Raytown Cash America. There were a lot less guitars on the wall this time, and I think fewer amps.
For the guitars, there were 2 by First act; a strat and a 222. There were 4 Squiers. I didn't touch them since they were all scuzzy. I think my notes said there was a Maestro lp special with 1 humbucker. My notes say "myst", which I think was a mystery guitar.
For amps, I noted 3 Peaveys. There was a keyboard amp. I recall thinking it was overpriced. There was a Renown. There was also some model of Transtube combo. The kb, and maybe the Renown were dirty.
There was only 1 pedal in the case. It was a Radial Texas Bones.
There were quite a few keyboards. There were 2 digital pianos. I didn't look at them. There were 2 Casiahas. There was an Ensoniq KS-32. There was a Roland EM-15, which was their version of a Casiaha. In related equipment, there was an Akai MPC Renaissance. This was the controller for some software, I presume also from Akai.
There were guitars behind the counter. There was some model of Ibanez. There were 2 Epiphone SGs and a lefty LP. There were 2 lefty Squiers; one had the big 70's style headstock. There was also a Mexican Fender Strat for $400.
My next stop was the pawn shop that is hard to miss. I'll be missing it from now on because it is gone. I think there was a slot car club in that part of the building now.
Then I went to a thrift store. The only thing of note was a Baldwin Fun Machine. I think it was this version: 1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/SxXYlEBFKBI/AAAAAAAAoHc/X3Dt5mDBs2M/s1600/%21BgeBUUgBGk~%24%28KGrHqEH-CsEsKg%2BsytfBLFZ7hzKwg~~_12.JPG
Next up was the nearby "hole in the wall" pawn shop. I think some time after my last visit around Xmas, someone crashed a truck through the front and stole a bunch of stuff. There were only maybe 4 amps. One was a Line6 combo. There was also a Marshall head, which I think was solid state. There were also 2 crappy small amps. There was an autoharp. For guitars, there was a Michael Kelly lp. There was some model of First Act. There was a strat from Rogue. There was another strat that I think just had GX on the headstock. I tried Googling that, but couldn't find anything. For guns, there was something I notated as "pgk9". I think I goofed that up and meant PSG 9mm. There is a 9mm gun called PSG by a company called Patriot Ordinance.
My next stop was the piss-break thrift store. There was nothing there. This time I didn't go pee behind it because I was going to stop at a grocery store that I (correctly)assumed had a restroom.
The next stop was an Alpha Pawn. For amps, there was a Park combo. The Panama cabinet was still there. For guitars, there was a Line6 Variax, but I don't remember what model. There was a Chinese Squire for $149. There was also an LTD tele. For keyboards, there was a Roland RD-700. There was also a Casio CPS-201. They wanted $89, which was WAY to much. I played with it for a bit. There were 2 effect buttons: Sustain, Stereo Chorus. Turning both of those on on either the Fantasy or Electric Piano setting(hard to tell due to them sharing a button) made a sound that would be good for playing the intro for Babe by Styx.
Next was Thrift World. There was an ART 2408 mixer for $99.
I think I'll leave it at that for now. I'll see if I have to take a dump. Then I'll eat. See you next week!
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Post by madmax on Nov 4, 2018 8:47:11 GMT -4
Hello. I am starting this during the 2nd 1am hour. If you are outside the US, you may not do the Daylight Savings Time thing this morning. Bones is on right now. It is the episode where the skeleton of the week is found among others from a slave ship, and is covered with pink organisms. According to TV Guide, and the station's own website, there was supposed to be another episode of Elementary on. The zap2it site said Bones is supposed to be on, but they just said it is the same episode as the 2am one. I now 100% recognize this episode. If I had known beforehand, I would have napped for another hour.
I watched SNL, which did some glitching. I then finished my reading close to the 1st 1am. I was hoping to catch a re-broadcast of 10Up on the TBD channel because I dozed off when it was on on Fri. When I turned that station on, there was something else on. I am guessing it was the show called Dust. I hoped I checked what was on for the 1st 1am. I'm kind of thinking I did, and it wasn't the show called Big Red Lazor, which comes on before 10Up. I'm thinking TBD did the time change during the Eastern Time Zone change an hour before here
I am also having discomfort in my butt area. It kind of feel like I have to take a dump. When I kind of push the muscles down there, I don't think I feel anything . This would suggest my prostate is acting up.
I guess I will start the food now, after spending 40min typing up the stuff above.
This was another stressful week, so I did more stress eating.
Sat: I said last week, I'd review 3 of the 4 items I had. The first is a box of Cheez-It crackers. They were the Hot & Spicy flavor. They were good. They were a bit hot/spicy. I was going to not mention these to try and save a bit of typing time, and that I thought I've reviewed them before. I checked, and I hadn't. The second item is a can of Spam. It was the Black Pepper flavor. It was good. There was black pepper flavor. Unfortunately, I seemed to only taste it at the beginning. The last item was a bag of Cheetos. They were The XXTRA Flamin Hot variety. They were good. They seemed hotter than the regular FH ones; at least when I first started eating them. I had my eyes watering. The bag was a few months past the use by date, but I'm not sure if that affected the hotness in that the whole bag should have been hotter than the regular ones and/or the first of the bag should have been even hotter.
I was surprised that I didn't have to get up on Sun and run to the bathroom and unleash a "crimson tide".
Sun: I had half a box of saltine crackers. They are some kind of generic brand. They were ok. They did not seem very crispy. I also recall them being a bit on the salty side.
I opened up a new bottle of hot sauce this week. I is Frank's Red Hot. I tried a little bit by itself. I think it was more vinegary than heat.
Mon: For a snack, I had a bag of popchips. They were the crazy hot variety. They were good. I recall there being some heat, but not a lot.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. I didn't add anything extra to the pan except the Frank's Red Hot. Because I didn't add all the other stuff, it didn't brown as good. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I opened my other box of ALDI shredded wheat. It was good. I probably did the canola oil thing.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. I also used all the spices.... It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: I snacked on shredded wheat. I also had something else I'll skip reviewing.
My meal was my veggie fajitas using half a bag of frozen broccoli. For beans, I used half a can of Mrs. Grimes Original Chili Beans. The only other thing I added to the pan was some water I put in the can to rinse it out. I used 5 flour tortillas, which you can find the prep/eating order elsewhere in this thread, along with which ones I had and plain and with pepper and/or hot sauce. They were good.
Thu: Again I had shredded wheat. For my snack, I had a bag of Late July tortilla chips. They were the Bacon Habanero. They were good. There was bacon taste, and a bit of heat.
The meal was veggie fajitas using half a bag of frozen broccoli. I used the other half of the can of beans, and all my spices.... I put this on 5 flour tortillas(there are 10 in a package), and used pepper and hot sauce. They were good.
I don't know if I finished the shredded wheat on Thu or Fri.
Fri: I had 2 snacks. First I had a package of Lunch Mate chicken. It was good. Later I had a bag of Peeled Snacks Peas Please pea puffs. They were the southwest spice flavor. They were good.
Before I had my meal, I prepared something else for a later time. After I had my squash 2 weeks ago, I kept the seeds. The Mon after that, I rinsed the seeds off to get rid of all that stringy stuff. I then put the seeds in the fridge. On Fri, I took them out and put them in a pie pan. They were still damp from being rinsed off. I found an online method to roast them, which I followed. I put them in the oven, which was preheated to 275F. I left them in there for 15min. I took the pan out, and the seeds were somehow still damp. I put them back in. I then set the oven to 450F for my food. I kept the pan in the oven while it was heating up. When the oven got up to 450F, I left the pan in for a minute or 2. I then took it out. The seeds had pretty much dried out. I sampled a few and they were good.
For my meal, I got stuff at the hot section of a grocery store. Since I would eat long after I got home, I put the stuff in the fridge. I then had to heat it up for later. All the stuff was good. I got 1 stuffed crab and 1 stuffed crab. They were on sale for 3 for $5. The ad also mentioned stuffed clams, but that store didn't have any. Those are why I had the oven so high. I cooked them for 35min. The scallop tasted better than the crab. When there was 12min left for the crab and scallop, I added 2 calzones in the oven. One was cheese, and the other cheese and peperoni. They came out very good. I also got a 2 entre meal. It comes in a 3-compartment plastic "plate". There is 2 small compartments and 1 large one. The actual meat/veggies go in the small compartments. The large one is for rice or lo mein noodles. I got noodles. I got 2 meat-only items. The first was sweet and sour chicken, which I omitted the sauce. The chicken is kind of like chicken nuggets. The other item was sesame chicken. This consists of the chicken pieces like from the sns chicken, but with some kind of sauce containing sesame seeds. When the crab/scallop, and the calzones were done, I took them out of the oven and put them on my plate. I then took the chicken and put each kind on one of the small pie pans that the calzones came on. I put them in the oven, which I had turned off, but was still hot. I took them out after a little while. As for the noodles, I split them up between 2 pots. In each pot, I dumped in a bowl of soup. One was egg drop, and the other hot & sour. I just heated them up on the stove. I ate these soup/noodle combos with my chopsticks. Each bowl came with a small bag of deep-fried wonton strips.
I ate very late. I got done eating after 1pm.
Sat: I had a bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I put it in for 1:36. This time there were a bunch of unopped kernels. I'm thinking it was somewhere near 10. I put some canola oil in the bag. It was good. I ate it with my chopsticks.
That's it for the food. I will have my meal later. It will only involve using the microwave, and hopefully not take that long.
After this, I will be making another post. That's all well and good, since I seem to have a dump getting ready. I don't know if that is related to the discomfort I mentioned at the start of this post. I also want to get some reading done.
It is now 6:47am. See you later.
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Post by madmax on Nov 4, 2018 12:52:30 GMT -4
I'm back.
That dump came much sooner than expected. My stomach feels a bit off, but I my butt area is not as uncomfortable.
Now lets get back to the subject at hand.
The next stop was the gun store. They had some kind of interesting shotgun. It was a DP-12 from Standard Mfg. Co. You can look it up yourself.
Something interesting happened when I was there. When I was talking to an employee, I felt something on my leg. I thought someone let their dumbass hyper kid loose and it ran to me. I looked down, and it was a big brown dog. I think it was a chocolate lab. It jumped up on a folding metal chair, and I petted it for quite a while.
Next I went to the Noland Rd Cash America. I first looked at the guitars behind the counter. There was a Jackson Kelly for $250. There was an Epi lp, and an lp special with 2hb. There might have been a Gibson LP. There were 2 Schecters. There was also a Dean Boca 12-string for $270.
My notes also have something I don't recall. I think I was writing that there was a Digitech Turbo Flanger, maybe with a price, but I'm not 100% sure.
I then checked out the keyboards. There were 3 Casiahas. There was a Korg Karma, which may have actually been sitting on the counter near the aforementioned guitars. There was also an Alesis QS8.2.
There wasn't much of a selection of guitars in the regular area. There was a Jackson, which I assume is some model of superstrat, since I didn't go into more detail. There were also 2 Squier strats. When I made the notation, I wasn't 100% sure where they were made. I either didn't look, or forgot.
For amps, there was a Peavey Session amp for $200. It was made for other non guitar/bass/kb country music instruments. There was also a bunch of $$$$ stuff. There were 2 Avatar speaker cabinets for $699 each. There was a Dr. Z cabinet for $299. There was a Dr. Z MAZ 18 combo and Route 66 head for $999 each.
The next stop was another pawn shop. There were less guitars than last time. I only noted 3. There were a Chinese and Indonesian Squires. There was also some brand of LP copy. I can't read what I wrote, partly due to the ink being smudged.
For effects. There was a Digitech Vocal 300 multieffcts pedal. There was also an Alesis 3630 rack unit compressor.
For kb, there were 2 Casiahas. There was also a Yamaha keyboard for $99. It looked like the Yamaha CP-30 that was there once and gone the next time. That time, they only wanted $60.
There were quite a few amps. There was a Laney CG 30. There was also some Hohner amp for $39. There was a Carvin SX-100 that was missing all its knobs. There were 3 Peavey amps. There was a pa head. There was a Classic Chorus 212. There was also a Vegas 400, which was another country music amp.
The next stop was a Salvation Army. There was a First Act kid's guitar. There was also an Appalachian dulcimer. I don't know if it was inbred.
Next was a Red Racks. There were 2 acoustic guitars. One was from a brand called Aspen. I didn't actually see the guitar itself. I saw a worker putting the case back behind the counter. I asked the customer who looked at it. The other guitar didn't have any strings. It had a slotted headstock, mostly used for nylon string classical guitars.
I have 2 more places, but it is getting late, and I want to see if I can take another dump before I eat.
See you next week.
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Post by madmax on Nov 12, 2018 6:19:56 GMT -4
Hello! As you obviously noticed, I am posting a day late. There is a reason, and it is also why my week was shitty. I'll mention it below, I think under Thu.
I don't think I have anything else to mention, so I'll get to the food.
Sat: I snacked on some of the squash seeds. They were ok. Even though I had them in the oven at 275F for 15min, then as the oven was warming up to 450F, they were still a bit damp.
My meal was 3 El Monterey XXLarge burritos. For something to put on them, I used the Frank's Red Hot. I also opened a bottle of store-brand picante sauce. It is the hot variety, but I can't remember how hot it actually was. The burritos were good plain, and with the hot sauce and/or the picante sauce. Here is the list of the burritos: Jalapeno Beef & Bean Beef Bean & Green Chili Spicy Red Hot Beef & Bean.
I don't know what order I ate the fist 2. All I remember is that the 2nd one looked like poo on the inside.
Sun: My meal was a bag of Fritos. They were the Classic Ranch flavor. I tasted some flavor when I started eating them, but it seemed to go away as I got through the bag. I kind of think the flavor was ranch. Flavor or not, they were good.
Mon: In the bottle that held the squash seeds, I added cumin, garlic powder, and chili powder. I then shook the bottle up to distribute the spices. The seed I ate were ok. I had 2 actual snacks. One was a can of Vienna sausages. They were good even though I don't think I refrigerated them. I also had a bag of Clancy's funyuns. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I finished the rest of the squash seeds. after I put some in my mouth, I also added some canola oil. They were ok. I also opened up a package of store-brand bacon bits. They were good. I only had a few.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: I had some more of the bacon bits. They were good. I had 2 actual snacks. First was a pair of tamales from the deli/hot food area of a grocery store. One was beef and the other pork. They were good. I had them plain, and with hot sauce. At the store, there was a placard saying beef and chicken tamales for $1.25 each. They only had beef. I f they had chicken, I would have picked up one also. The pork ones were $1.50 each. Later I had a bag of Specially Selected kettle chips. They were the Balsamic Vinegar & Rosemary flavor. I don't know if they tasted like those things, but they were good.
My meal was a Tony's frozen pizza. It was a Pizzeria Style Crust Supreme. It was good.
Thu: Here is what was causing me stress. I've told you that my parents moved into a new house, and I(and them) have been sorting through stuff to take to their house, my house, the thrift store, and trash. They hired a guy to come out and clean up the house, including taking away all the remaining furniture, on Sat. We needed to take out everything we wanted to take home or donate. I took off Thu and Fri from work.
I worked my ass off Thu, Fri and Sat, loading and unloading our cars, and brining all their stuff into the basement. It was stressful. I got even less sleep than I normally do. I missed TMZ on Thu, and need to watch it online later. I missed the Fri 11pm showing, but was awake for the 3:30 am rebroadcast. I missed most of SNL. I fell back asleep and woke up 35min into Bones, so didn't watch it. I was coughing a lot due to the dust, and probably various powders I shouldn't be breathing in. Fri I was moving an old tub out of the basement, and I fell in. It wasn't really a big deal, except that I fell on a large ceramic side part(I don't know what to call it) of a towel rack. It actually didn't cause that much pain. When I was in the shower later, I felt a knot(Google definition: a hard lump of tissue in an animal or human body, in case knot is not used that way outside the US) on the right side of my back above my ass. When I was done, I looked in the mirror. I had a large black bruise. Sat, I got a cut on my big toe, I think from a piece of wood on the floor. At my house, I got 2 small cuts on my hand, presumably while unloading stuff out of my car. I didn't realize it until I was moving some boxes I took inside and set down in a temporary spot. I looked down at my hand, and it was covered in blood.
Now back to the food.
I got 2 items at the hot food/deli area of a grocery store. I'll skip them.
My meal was a can of store-brand beef stew. It was good. It tasted just like Dinty Moore's, but is a lot cheaper. I also had a snack item. It was a bag of Lay's kettle chips. They were the Cream Cheese and Chive flavor. They were good, even though I don't think the flavor was sc and/or chive.
Fri: Before I went to the house, I went to the dealership to get new tires on my car at 7am. I did some stuff after(hint: future post), but didn't stop anywhere to get some driving snack(s).
I got 2 snack items at another grocery store, which I'll again skip.
My meal was a large can of Sweet Sue chicken & dumplings. It was good. I also had a box of Chicken in a Biskit. It was good.
Sat: I finally finished up at the house. After that, I went to their new house to bring stuff they took out of the car into the basement. I then stopped at WM. Even at 7pm on a Sat, there's people at every checkout stand with full carts. I went to the one open express stand, but there were 3 people ahead of me. After I was done, I stopped at a gas station. I got home a few min shy of 7:30pm, so I was able to watch the UK show Detectorists on PBS.
While watching that, I had the 2 snack items I picked up at Walmart. One was 8 jalapeno poppers. They were good. The other was 6 mozzarella sticks. They were good even though they weren't very warm.
For my meal, I did an experiment. I fried up cabbage, onion, and half a bag of frozen broccoli that I first cooked in the microwave. That is how I start my fried rice and veggies. While that was cooking, I cooked half a bag of regular noodles. When they were done, and I drained the water off, I dumped them into the pan with the veggies. I mixed them in with the veggies. I didn't add any spices.... I was constantly stirring everything up. When this all got hot, I took the pan off the stove, and set it in the oven to cool off. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
For my hot sauce, I tried something new. I got a jar of Huy Fong's Chili Garlic Sauce. It is way hotter than their mega-famous Sriracha.
My meat item was a large container of Buddig Oven Roasted Turkey. I'm guessing it was 8oz. It was just the regular Buddig meat. It was good.
I got a super late start. I finished my "Sat" meal after 2pm Sun.
That meal wasn't my original plan. A few weeks ago, I had originally planned to get my tires done on Sat, then go over to the house to get stuff. That was before my parents hired the cleaner. When I made the Sat plan, I had suggested to my mom that we have a homecooked meal. She was a bit receptive. After they hired that guy, my mom said she didn't want to make what I proposed. I then suggested something easier. She said she would be too tired out to do any cooking. She had suggested that my dad would pay for pizza delivered to the house. On Sat, she asked if I wanted that. I said I was too exhausted to wait around for that. I just wanted to go to WM then go home.
That's it for the food. I will be having my "Sun" meal a while later. It will be an experiment, and a bit of a variation of something I made previously. I will probably be full for Mon night, and not want a regular meal. That is why I picked what I did for my "Sat" meal. I'll probably just have some snack items.
I almost forgot to mention that on Fri and Sat, that I was farting up a storm.
I might make another post in a while. If not, see you next week.
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Post by madmax on Nov 12, 2018 10:16:54 GMT -4
Ok, I'm back. I went to my job to check stuff out. Today is when gov employees get off for Veteran's(Armistice outside US) Day. After I left there, I went to an area called the West Bottoms to see if I could get on a webcam there. I went on the wrong street , but got on the other one of the pair.
I put my laundry in when I got home, so I'll put it in the dryer in a while
I wanted to try to finish up typing about my big trip since I have 2 more places left.
I might have to take a bathroom break.
So here we go.
My next stop was the "crazy" pawn shop. I may not get everything I listed, because I can't tell if 2 items were crossed out(to put on other side of page) or smudged. There are a few things I can't figure out due to being illegible and/or I can't recall what I meant. What I should have done was type up the list on my 'puter while it was still fresh in my mind.
For amps, there was a Peavey KB 1 kb amp for $99. There were 2 accordions in the glass counter. On top of the counter was a Roland D-20 for $149. Also in the case was a Tech 21 Boost Overdrive pedal.
The first thing I can't tell is it looks like I mentioned a lp special style guitar from LTD. There are 2 other lp guitars ion my notes, but there the smudged or crossed out ones. There was a Jackson lp guitar that might have been a Monarkh. There were 3 or 4 Dean guitars: Dave Mustaine V, KKV, Vendetta, and possibly a lp style. There was a Squier strat. There was a Squier tele from Korea. There appears to be another strat, but I can't find anything online similar to my notation. There was a Schecter guitar, and a beat up Ibanez that may have been a lefty.
For guns there was a PPS 43. I don't know if was a copy, or an actual WW2 version. If the latter, it may have been a good price.
The last stop was the 24hwy Cash America. In side the glass case inside the door was a BOSS DB-90 metronome. There was also an AKAI box that appeared to just be the pads from an MPC. That might be an MPD218. I also notated a Digitech unit for $69. I'm thinking it was an Element because I don't have that name memorized.
For guitars, I think I can tell on my notes what was behind the counter and what was in the regular area.
I think behind the wall, there was a LTD lp style guitar. There were 2 Starcasters, and a Squier.
In the customer area, there were 2 Kramers: a 200ST, and some superstrat with 1 slanted humbucker.
The rest of the guitars I listed were strats: Rogue Johnson G&L Legacy Tribute 2 unmarked and/or can't remember.
That's the end of my trip. I have some more non-food stuff, but I'll save it for next week. I need to take a dump, then fill up again. Also, more importantly, I need to find my notes.
See you next week!
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Post by madmax on Nov 18, 2018 11:36:44 GMT -4
Hello. This week is better than last. I'm starting at 2:24am. For a lot of SNL, I didn't do any reading during the commercials. Maybe it was due to there being glitching, so that might have made me not be in the mood. I finished reading at 1am then took a nap. When I got up, I got the stuff together to snack on. I'll get to the food now.
Before I get to the current stuff, I need to address 2 things I forgot. First, I finished the packet of bacon bits. Second, I finished the shredded wheat crumbs. I had them with canola oil.
Sun: Like I said last week, this was an experiment. Let me list the ingredients: 2 small/med eggplants, 1 8oz brick of mozzarella cheese, some canola oil, a 24oz can of Hunt's Pasta Sauce(Four Cheese variety), and 3 large chicken thighs. I sliced up the eggplants, and the mozzarella. I took the large casserole dish and smeared canola oil in it to keep the food from sticking. I then put in a layer of eggplant slices. I then smeared these with canola oil and put down another layer of eggplant. I'm not 100% sure on the order of the next stuff. I then put down a layer of pasta sauce, then more eggplant. Then I covered those with canola oil and put cheese on top, then more eggplant. I then put down more sauce. I then put the chicken thighs on top. I put cheese around the chicken thighs. I put the last few pieces of cheese on the chicken. I put sauce on the thighs, but I don't know if it was before or after the cheese, or both. If there was a little more sauce left, I put it on the other cheese.
I preheated the oven to 350F. I covered the dish with aluminum foil, then put that in the oven. I let it cook for 30 min, then turned the dish around 180o. I then left it for another 30 min. Then I took the foil off to let the cheese on top brown a bit. I'm thinking I might have turned the oven up to 400F. When the cheese just started to get some browning, I took the dish out and let it cool.
For the taste, I need to split it up in that I'll do the thighs last. The eggplant/sauce/cheese was good. The thighs were fully cooked, even though there was a tiny bit of pink around the bone on the last one. The thighs tasted how they should. The problem was they didn't go with the other stuff. I think the problem was I used thighs. I should have used breasts because they have a more neutral flavor.
Mon: As I figured, due to the earlier meal, I wasn't very hungry. I figured I needed to eat something so I wouldn't be hungry all through Tue. I just had 2 things. One was a package of Hormel Pepperoni Minis. They were good. The other item was a bag of Gourmet Select funyuns that I bought at Menards. The bag was big at 10oz. They were ok. They didn't seem to taste as good as the Clancy's and maybe the Pajeda's. They seemed to taste better when I got further into the bag; which I'm guessing meant I got used to the taste.
Tue: I had 2 snacks, due to being hungry, and maybe from stress. I had a Maruchan Instant Lunch. It was beef, and was good. Later I had a bag of Harvest Snaps pea snacks. They were the Light & Creamy Caesar. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies, using half a bag of frozen broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: I picked up a snack at a grocery store. It was a large chicken enchilada. At home, I warmed it up a bit in the microwave. It was good plain, and with the hot sauce. Fri night I found out I had packets of picante sauce in my condiment container in the fridge. If I had known that on Wed, I would have used one on the enchilada
My meal was the same as Tue.
Usually I don't mention the meat item, but I will now. I had a can of sardines, liker I usually do. I happened to shake the can. I heard sloshing, which meant the fish/oil ratio was off. I opened the can and ate them, and they were good. It did look like there was some extra space occupied by oil. I decided to have something else. I had a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were good even though I had them off the shelf. When I was close to done, I se the can down on my leg. The sleeve of my coat must have caught the can. It turned over. The 2 or 3 sausages ended up on my leg, and the "goo" spilled all over my coat and pants. That sucked because I actually like to drink it.
Thu: I got 2 snacks, from 2 different stores in the same chain. I'll explain that next week. One was 2 small Salisbury steaks. They were good. The other was 5 dolmades. They were good.
If you remember 2 weeks ago, I got stuff at Arby's. I wasn't able to fully enjoy it due to the power being out. I did a do-over. The food was good. I got 2 orders of onion rings. They were still doing the 2/$6 gyro deal. I had 2 beef, 1 turkey, and 1 Greek.
Fri: For a snack, I went to Wendy's. They are doing a promo where any size of fries is just $1. I got 3 large. They were ok. I warmed them up a bit in the microwave. I should have heated them more so they were hot. Besides having them plain, I tried them with 2 things. First, I tried ketchup, which was ok. I'm not a ketchup person, but as I said a while back, it did go well with those potato wedges(I don't know if they are technically fries). The other thing I tried was a container of Burger King ranch dip. That was ok.
For my meal, I did almost the same thing as the last Sat meal in that I used noodles. After I stirred them in with the veggies, I let this fry for 5 min. Then I tried to flip stuff over. I then left it for 10min. I then flipped parts again, which was a bit easier due to there being some browning. I then let it set for another 10 min. I flipped again, and saw there was much more browning. I then turned the stove off and let the pan sit there for a while. I then put the pan in the oven to cool off.
As for the taste, it was good both plain and with my 3 items. I want to try making both these noodle dishes again, but this time with all my spices....
My meat item was another large container of the Buddig Oven Roasted turkey. It seemed to taste better this time, maybe due to me taking out of the fridge for a few hours to warm up.
Sat: I had a bunch of stuff to snack on. I had quite a few of those tiny Snickers bars. They were good. I had some shredded coconut I bought at ALDI. It was good. I also had some dark chocolate covered pecans from the h/n/o store. They were good. I also had a beverage. It was from the brand Tampico. It was Blue Raspberry Punch. It was really good. It's supposed to be a blend of blueberry and raspberry. I didn't pay attention to how the flavor reflected each, but it did have a berry taste. It was blue, so I'll see if it turns my poo blue or green.
That's all for the food. I'll have my meal in a while.
Next week is Thanksgiving here in the US. I won't be making a turkey, since that is too fucking big. I will be cooking some other poultry. I will also be having 1 or other special meals.
I took a dump at 7am, but it feels like I have more ready, so I'll probably have to take care of that. It is now 9:36am
I might be back in a while for another post. If not, I'll be back next week.
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Post by madmax on Nov 18, 2018 11:41:35 GMT -4
I forgot to mention for Fri that I also snacked on a bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I cooked it for 1:36. I mixed in canola oil. It was good. I forgot to count how many unpopped kernels there were.
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Post by madmax on Nov 25, 2018 9:17:43 GMT -4
Hello. I'm starting this at 1220am. Tonight's SNL was a repeat of the Akwafina episode, which I dozed off around the last half hour last time. I dozed off again around the same time. This time I started getting drowsy during the prerecorded remote pumpkin sketch. I missed the Travis Scott 2nd song, and was stil waking up during the film panel sketch. I think last time I saw the whole pumpkin sketch, and missed most of the panel one.
I then finished my reading.
Now for the main course, as it was.
Sat: I made a bag of El Monterey burritos. They were the Spicy Picante flavor. I cooked 4 in the microwave, and the other 4 in my oil pot. I tried them plain, with the hot sauce, the picante sauce, and both. They were all good.
Sun: I finished a jar of pb. If I remember when I'm up, I'll tell you what it was.
I also had a bag of Fritos. They were the Spicy Jalapeno flavor. They were ok. This time when I had them, I could tell there was some kind of flavor, but couldn't id as jalapeno. Also, it seemed to go away as I ate more of them. Maybe the bag was too old. Besides plain, I used the picante and hot sauces. They were ok.
Mon: I had 2 snacks. I had a can of Vienna sausages from Brookdale. They were good. I think I put them in the fridge beforehand. Later I had a bag of Specially Selected kettle chips. They were the Pancetta & Parmesan flavor. They were good. I don't think they tasted like what the bag said.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I had 2 snacks. First was a Maruchan Instant Meal. It was the Chicken Tortilla flavor. It was good. There was some spice taste, but no heat. The other snack was a bag of veggie chips from the h/n/o store. They were good.
The meal was the same as Mon.
Wed: I opened up a packet of store-brand bacon pieces. I only had a mouthful. They were good. Later I had a bag of Deutsche Kuche potato sticks from ALDI. They are just tiny shoestring potatoes. The variety was listed as Alpenkrauter. The bag describes them as "Herbs of the Alps". I don't know what that entails, or if it was accurate, but they were good.
For my meal, I had a bag of Chester's Hot Fries. They were good. The rest of the stuff was from the deli/hot section of 2 grocery stores. I won't list everything, but I'll tell you about my ordeal. I visited the first one last week to ask if they would be having Thanksgiving stuff and/or regular stuff on this Wed. They had stuffed green peppers, which I love. Sure enough when I went back on Wed, they didn't have them. I was going to check out another grocery store that's a bit nearby, but out of the way that I haven't visited in a long time, but I only remembered after I gone a ways in the other direction. I didn't feel like turning around. At the other store, it seems always when I go past that section, they always have meatballs in pasta sauce. And of course, this time when I wanted to buy some, they didn't have any. I ended up buying 4 different kinds of salad(not the lettuce kind). All the stuff was good.
I thought there might be a bit less food there, so that's why I had the potato sticks earlier. I ended up being full.
To make things even worse, when I got home from the stores, I went to put my grocery discount card back in my wallet. I couldn't find it. I found the receipt from the store, and it had the phone number. I called them, and they told me I left it there. I drove over there and got it.
Thu: I had another mouthful or 2 of the bacon pieces. They were good.
In the US, it was Thanksgiving. Since a turkey is too big, I wanted to get something smaller. I'll discuss that below, along with all the other items.
The main event was a pair of Tyson Cornish game hens. I originally wanted to buy a chicken. I thought I saw in an ad that they were $.78/lb. When I got to the store, I realized I misread the ad. I didn't realize there were 2 kinds of turkeys. I then looked for a chicken. All the ones there were huge(like over 6lb) and expensive. I then saw there were turkey breasts on sale for $1.49lb. When I went over to that area, I saw they were out. I then went over to another grocery store. The chickens there were also big and $$$$. They were having a sale on a 2 pack of cgh for $6.49, so I picked up one.
I took them out of the freezer and put them in the fried on Mon to thaw. I put them on the counter a couple of times for a few hours also. For the meal, I took out my large casserole dish and smeared the inside with canola oil. I then opened up the first cgh package. It was a pain. I got some water/blood/etc on the counter. I dumped the rest in the dish, then got the cgh in there. I then did the same with the second one. It was also a pain to get out of the package. I then cut up some onion and stuffed the cavities of each cgh. I then put them in the oven, and baked them according to the time/temp on the package. I was supposed to put them breast side up, but I accidentally put them upside down. Halfway through the cooking time, I turned the dish around. After they were done, I took them out of the oven. The water/blood had cooked off, and there was a bunch of fat/juice in the dish. I took the cgh out, dumped off the other stuff, then put them back in, and let them sit while I dealt with the other stuff.
I used that stuff in the dish to make some gravy. I mixed some flour and canola oil in a small pot, and heated it a bit. I then dumped the dish stuff in and heated it up. The gravy seemed a bit thin, so I added some cornstarch. It did thicken the gravy up, but made quite a few lumps.
I knew that gravy wasn't going to be enough. When I went to the store on Wed, I was going to get some gravy in the deli/hot area. I asked for a large container. The worker told me it would be much cheaper to get some off the shelf. He said their's comes in a can. He went to the back, and gave me the brand name. I looked on the shelf and didn't find it. I then went to the other grocery store, and they didn't have it either. Here's what I ended up doing. I used one jar of Heinz Signature(should be $ignature) turkey gravy for flavor. I then used 3 cans(10.5oz aka Campbell's soup-sized) of generic brand gravy which was $.79 each. I used 2 turkey and 1 chicken. I heated this up in another pot.
I also got some stuffing(aka dressing) at the grocery store. I didn't pay attention to the guy putting it in the container. I thought he would pack it tight, but didn't. There wasn't very much. After the cgh were done, I put the stuffing in the small casserole dish, and put that in the oven. I turned it off, but it was still hot inside. After the stuffing got warm, I took the dish out of the oven. After a while, I just dumped the stuffing in the dish with the cgh so I would have less things to wrangle.
I also bought a bolillo roll, mostly to dunk in the gravy. I set it in the dish with the stuffing to warm it up.
Since there was little stuffing, I felt I needed something else. I had a box of Keebler Town House Pita crackers. They were the Parmesan Cheese & Basil flavor. If had had the Focaccia crackers, I would have had them instead.
As for the meal, my first plate was the wings, legs/thighs, and some body meat. I cut it up so in would be easier to eat. I also put maybe 1/2 of the stuffing on the plate. I covered this with almost all the chicken gravy I made myself.
I used some of the roll ad put most of the remaining chicken gravy on it. I just dumped the little bit out on the chicken on the plate.
I think I had only 2 more plates. I forget if just one or both had stuffing. I used the big pot of gravy on them.
I tried to wipe up stuff in the dish with a piece of roll. I just dunked the rest of the roll in the big pot of gravy.
I was eating the pita chips too. After I covered the rest of the chicken in the gravy, there was quite a bit left. I ended up dunking the pita chips in the gravy.
There was still a bit of gravy left, so I finished my meal by eating that. I guess I could've used just 2 cans of gravy, or maybe even 1.
As for the taste, everything was good, except for the pita chips. They were ok. I think that was more that they didn't go with the food. As for the onions, they were fully cooked, and kind of grayish. I mixed them with the chicken on the last 2 plates. I didn't taste them. Maybe if the pieces were bigger.
I felt rather full, but not really in pain
Since everything came out ok, I'll probably do this again. Next time, maybe I'll find a small chicken, or turkey breast instead of the cgh. Also, I'll get more stuffing and/or more rolls. If I fell the need to also have a snack item, I'll have something else like Pringles/Stax or FH Cheetos.
I took a dump before my "Fri" meal on Sat. I'm thinking I hadn't gone since Wed morning. Surprisingly, it wasn't massive.
Fri: By Sat morning, I wasn't feeling full, and might have actually had some slight hunger pains. I decided to have Hot Pockets. I had 5 boxes(2 to a box). I cooked them in the oven on a cookie sheet. Halfway through, I turned the sheet around.
The last time I had them, The last ones had cooled off, and that maybe affected the taste. This time I did something different. After I took the cookie sheet out of the oven and turned it off, I put the small casserole dish in there. I let it get heated up, then took it out. I put the Hot Pockets in there, and covered it with a piece of towel that I have also used as a trivet.
All of them were good. The last ones were still warm. I made a list in order of eating: Five Cheese Pizza-Crispy Crust Four Meat & Four Cheese Pizza-Garlic Buttery Crust Philly Steak & Cheese-Croissant Crust Chicken Pot Pie-Flaky Crust Meatballs & Mozzarella-Garlic Buttery Crust
Sat: A little while ago I had a mouthful of the bacon pieces to get rid of the hunger pains.
I will be having my meal later. Even though it has only 2 main ingredients(and some water, and technically canola oil), the prep and cooking will take a long time.
It is 717. I might've got done sooner. I set my alarm so I would get up before 2am to watch Bones. I took my nap. I woke up and looked at the clock. It was 302am. I hadn't turned the alarm on, even though I could've sworn I had done so. I then laid in bed for quite awhile. I think I got out of bed around 317 am.
That's it for the food. I'll be back with another post soon.
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Post by madmax on Nov 25, 2018 11:37:09 GMT -4
I'm back. 2 weeks ago, I was helping my parents clean out the house. I also visited some thrift stores.
After I got new tires on my car, I went to the thrift stores in Blue Springs.
I was going to stop in the pawn shop, but they hadn't opened yet. I looked inside the window. The 3 guitars I noted were a strat, sg, and lp special. I couldn't see the brand names. Same with a kb. I could see some amp brands, but not the models. There was a Line 6, a Crate, and an Ampeg.
I then went to Goodwill. There were 2 pianos. There were also 2 Yamaha keyboards, each $14.99. One was a PSR-233. The other was a PSS-680. Even though that one had mini keys, it was a deluxe model. I need to check YT vids for it. I'm kind of interested, but it didn't have a power cord, so I couldn't tell if all the keys worked. Also BS is quite far out to just go there for that.
Then I went to the Red Racks next door. There was a set of bagpipes behind the counter. There was also this odd keyboard. Apparently is called a Sound Mixer HMP-211. You can find a pic on Google. Apparently the manufacturer is Hello Modern Toys out of Hong Kong.
I then went to the Independence thrift stores.
First was Thrift World. There was a Jaymar kiddie piano. The ART mixer was still there, but it was behind the counter, and it wasn't in the box.
Then I went to the Salvation Army. There were 4 things behind the counter. There was a dulcimer in a case. I had to ask a worker to open the case up. There was also an odd instrument that I was able to reach. It was a violin-uke. You can Google it yourself. I didn't know it was mostly bowed. I just tried playing the strings guitar-style, and it sounded like shit. There was also a small case that was partially opened. I think the instrument inside had Diamond Head on it. Since that's the name of a Hawaiian beach, I'm guessing it was a ukulele. There was a soft case for a kiddie guitar. It said First Act. I don't know if there was a guitar inside.
Then I went to Red Racks. I asked a worker if there was a trumpet in a case behind the counter. She said yes. She also pointed out the other instruments in cases, which I hadn't noticed. There was a violin, acoustic guitar(maybe the broken one from last month), and autoharp, and a kiddie harp.
I then went to the thrift stores in my former town. There were only items at 2 of them.
At the cat charity one, there was a Kawasaki kiddie kb.
At Savers, there was a piano. There was one of those First Act electronic drumset units. There was also a flute for $50. It was probably a good deal, but I can't tell if it needed to be fixed. That still pisses me off about missing out on that flute at the antiques store.
That's all for this post. I have another one coming up.
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Post by madmax on Nov 25, 2018 14:46:47 GMT -4
I'm back. Here's the deal. I'm going to be typing until 10am. Then I'm going to make my meal. While it is cooking, I will resume typing. Once it is done, I will stop the post.
I took last Fri off because I was off for Thanksgiving. That is stupid to have a day off, go back in for a day, then have the weekend off. I visited the 2 pawn shops on Independence Ave.
First was the one I've only been in once before. Right inside the door, there was a Behringer floor monitor cabinet. There was also an old speaker cabinet from a brand called Kingston. The speakers were small. They might have been 8in. This might be a Japanese brand from the 60's. There was also a tiny Crate combo. There was also a Randall combo. My notes say GC 50, but that doesn't show up in Google. Also CG 50 doesn't either. I don't have any idea what it was then.
For guitars, there were 2 Squiers. There was also a Starcaster. There was also a BC Rich. There was also a First Act Adam Levine 223 Signature.
I then went over to the glass case to see if there were any effects. There was just an Alesis expression pedal(probably for their synths), and some 3 button footswitch. That one looked a little upscale, but I've never heard of the brand.
Then I went to the edge of the hood Cash America. They still have all the guitars and amps behind the counter.
There was a bass recorder(the instrument) for $77. There were 4 strats: Squier, Starcaster, Peavey, Behringer. There was also what I recall was a superstrat. My notes say from Cort, but I'm not 100% sure. There was also an Ibanez guitar. The little I saw make me think it was from Talman series. I notated as 5150, which was supposed to be a Peavey Wolfgang. Those have the pickup selector on the upper bout. That makes me confused about if that is where the Ibanez's was.
There was also 2 Casihas
I'm going to stop now. My food is done, and I'm waiting for it to cool. I should have started making it much earlier, like maybe 9am. It is now 1246pm, and I'm starving.
See you next week.
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Post by madmax on Dec 2, 2018 12:25:10 GMT -4
It is another week. There was some stress, but I'll get to that later. I'm getting a late start again. I got done eating right before 1am, then took a nap. I then got my snacks together and started in on them.
Something interesting is that a lot of my dumps have been fatter than normal. They've also been rather hard, and often I've had to strain to push them out.
Now lets get the food going in.
I almost forgot to mention the peanut butter I finished last week. Is was a generic brand. I didn't notate if it was creamy or crunchy. It was good.
Sat: I made onion soup. I used rather large onions. I cut 1.5 onions and threw them in the pot. I then added 4 cups up water, put the lid on, and set the stove to 7. I cut up the 1/2 onion and put it in the pan with some canola oil. I fired the onions until they started browning, but not burnt. I took then out and set them aside. I then cut up 3/4 of an onion and put it in the pan. I fried these until they started yellowing. I figured the ones in the pot had cooked enough. I added both batches of fried onions. I then added 2 32oz containers of beef broth. I cut up the 1/4 onion, and another one and added them to the pot. The soup seemed to be too thick with onions, so I added 2 cups of water. The stove was a little bit over 7. I waited until this came to a boil. I then turned the stove down to simmer and put the lid on the pot. I then let it cook for 20min and then stirred it. I waited another 20 min and stirred it again. After another 20 min, I stirred it again and took it off the stove. I waited until it cooled down before I ate it.
It was good. I didn't try all my compliment of spices and condiments, partially due to me doing that before. I did try it with the hot sauce. It was actually really good, and provided good heat. I did use a lot of parmesan cheese, which is a common thing to use with onion soup. It was good.
I had 2 rolls that I bought at the store. I tore them up and dunked a few pieces in the soup. I mostly took the pieces and just put them in the bowl with the soup. They were good.
For a meat item, I had 2 packages of peperoni. The first was a 2.5oz from Armour. The second was a 3oz store brand. Both were good.
I didn't finish all the soup. I think I put about 3 sups in the fridge. I also saved 1 small piece of roll, and maybe 6 pieces of peperoni.
I started cutting the onions at around 10:15. It was about 1.5 hours later when the soup started boiling and I turned the stove down and put the lid on the pot. I don't think I got done eating until after 2pm. I should have stated things way earlier, but I wanted to get in some of my pawn shops review.
Another major thing was that as I was making the soup, there was a blizzard starting up. After I ate, I went to sleep. When I woke up, I did some reading. I then went out to shovel the driveway. When I went outside, it pretty much stopped snowing. When I woke up, I still felt full, but not feeling discomfort. I was able to shovel the driveway fine.
Because of the soup, I thought I would become a fart machine. I only farted a few times at work. I also thought it would make me run to shitter. That didn't happen either.
Sun: By Sun night, I didn't feel full anymore, but didn't feel hungry. All I had was some peanut butter. I opened up a new jar. I finished a box of cereal. It was the Millville Fruit & Nut Granola from ALDI. It was good.
Mon: I had some of the bacon pieces. They were good. I heated up the rest of the onion soup in the microwave. I also had the last piece of roll, and the rest of the peperoni. I also used parmesan. Everything was good.
Later, I had 2 things. I had a can of Vienna sausages. They were good. I can't recall if I put them in the fridge first. I also had a bag of Late July tortilla chips. They are the Mild Green Mojo flavor. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies, using half a bag of frozen broccoli. I fucked up and forgot to do the first round of spices...., which I add before the rice. I did add the second post-rice round though. Nonetheless, it was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I opened up a box of shredded wheat. I had some plain, and some with canola oil. Later, I put canola oil on some and put parmesan on top. They were good. I also finished the bacon pieces. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies with broccoli. This time I added both rounds of spices.... It was good plain and with my 3 items.
I finished the last of the Huy Fong Chili Garlic Sauce.
Wed: When I got home from work, I had some shredded wheat. I had some later that night. Between those I had something else. I took a bag of Whoppers milk balls and put them in another container. They were in "fun size" packages, where each package had 3 balls. When I was done with the transfer, there was 1 loose milk ball in the bag. I ate it, and it was good. Since I had the sweet taste in my mouth, I had some peanut butter a little later.
I had to open up a new bottle of hot sauce. It is Yeo's Hot Chili Sauce that I got at the Asian store. There was company info on the back; I'll try to remember to look when I get up. I do remember there was a graphic on the back indicating the hot sauce had a heat rating of 3 out of 5. I tried some, and I think the 3 is way too generous. There was just a slight amount of heat. I thought Asians were fans of hot(spicy) food. Here is the info on the bottle. It is made by Yeo Hiap Seng Bhd of Malaysia for YHS Pte Ltd of Singapore. The importer is YHS Trading Inc of California.
My meal was my veggie fajitas using half a bag of frozen broccoli, 1/2 cup(before cooking) of rice, and about 1/2 can of Mrs Grimes Original Chili Beans. You can see elsewhere the order in which I prepared the tortillas and what I added when eating. They were all good.
There are supposed to be 10 tortillas in the package. When I opened this one, there were only 9. I used 5 for this meal. When I do an experiment using tortillas(not fajitas), I'm going to need all 10.
Thu: I snacked on some shredded wheat.
I got my meal at Arby's. They are doing the 2/$6 French dip sandwich promotion. I got 4 sandwiches, and 2 orders of onion rings. They were all good. There was a slight problem.
When the worker was filling the containers of the beef juice(actually called au jus, but I'll use bj), she had to tip the dispenser because it was getting low. While I was waiting on my onion rings, a guy came out with a large pot and filled the dispenser. When I ate, I saw there wasn't a lot in the containers. I don't know if that was completely due to the dispenser being low, or if they are supposed to put less in. When I would usually have these, I would take the remaining bj and pour it into the next container. This time there was only a few drops left for the first 2. For the 3rd, I actually ran out, and had to start using the 4th container. I just BARELY had enough bj for the last one. Also, the bj seemed a bit thick. I don't know if it's usually like that, or if it was because the dispenser was low, or because I waited a long time to eat, and there was evaporation, even though the containers were sealed.
Fri: I went slightly overboard on snacks since I was miffed over being shortchanged on tortillas. I had shredded wheat, including some with canola oil. I think the bag is done, or close to it, excluding crumbs. I had a can of Vienna sausages that I had put in the fridge. They were good. I had 2 pieces of pizza I bought at a grocery store. They were good. While watching TMZ, I had a bag of the Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I cooked it for 1:43. I put canola oil in when it was done. It was good. There were only 3 or 4 unpopped kernels.
My meal was the veggie fajitas. Due to the missing tortilla, I didn't have the uncooked one with not pepper or hot sauce added. They were good. Since I knew there was going to be leftover veggie mix, I decided to get some wonton chips at a grocery store to use with it. They were good with the mix, both plain and with the pepper and/or hot sauce. I also had some chips with no mix, both plain and with pepper and/or hot sauce. They were good. The chips are $$$$, so I might not get them again. I have another idea on what to do when I have a missing tortilla.
I need to mention the meat item. I usually have sardines from ALDI. They recently upped the price by $.10. I decided to get 2 cans from Sunny Sea at Dollar Tree that are 7oz. I had a can. Even though they were in brine(salt water?) they were good. I even had a bit on a wonton chip, which was ok. Dollar Tree also sells the Beach Cliff brand, but I don't think they sell the lemon sauce or green chilies varieties. I might start buying my sardines at DT.
Sat: I had a bunch of stuff to snack on. The rest of the Snickers bars, some ALDI coconut, and some dark choc covered pecans from the h/n/o store. They were good. I also tried something new: pistachios. I had only ever eaten one once many years ago, so I didn't have an opinion on them. The h/n/o store had a sale on them for $5.99lb. They didn't have raw ones, just roasted, with or without salt. They had them in bulk bins, but they also had some prebagged in about 1/2lb amounts. I got a bag of the unsalted ones. I think I finished the whole bag. I'll doublecheck next week. They were somewhere between being ok and good. That being said, I probably won't get them again. Even though the sale price was real good, they are still pricey. Also, they are very small.
I also had a beverage. It was a bottle of Tampico Strawberry Kiwi Punch. When I first drank it, it had a good strawberry taste. Drinking it later wasn't so good. I didn't finish the bottle. I'll do that next week and see how it tastes.
I was farting up a storm, and had to take a large soft dump. I don't know if that was due to the snacks and/or a delayed reaction from the fajitas. I kind of feel like I could poop some more.
That's all for the food. I'll have my meal sometime later. I want to finish my pawn shop report, do something else, and probably take another dump. Thankfully, all I have to do is open some cans and cook on the stove for a while.
See you later.
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Post by madmax on Dec 2, 2018 12:44:57 GMT -4
Now back to the Cash America.
I was talking about the stuff behind the counter. There were 2 pa heads. I think one was a Behringer, and the other a brand I never heard of. There were also a pair of Nady pa speakers, and maybe a pair from another brand. In front of all this was a Line 6 amp. There was another one with the rest of the amps. For amps, there was a Blackstar combo for $359. There was a modern Fender tweed amp that had 50 in its name, but I can't seem to find online. There was also a Peavey Heritage combo.
There was quite a bit of pa stuff in the main area. There was a small pa combo amp, which I didn't remember the maker name because it wasn't something common. There was a set of pa speakers that I think was from Behringer. There were 2 Peavey floor monitors that were being sold separately. There was a pair of Peavey pa cabinets being sold as a set for over $400. The speakers were lined up vertically, and quite large. Finally, there was a pa system(head and 2 cabs) from Earth Labs for $240. It was rather old, so I don't know if that was a good price.
That is the end of my trip. I'll see you next week.
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Post by madmax on Dec 9, 2018 11:32:25 GMT -4
Hello. It's almost 12:30am on Sun. I could've started during SNL, but I found some articles from Road & Track or Car & Driver on MSN that I looked at during the commercials. Also, I just kind of sat around, not feeling like typing. I have 30 min until I take my 1am nap before Bones. I guess I'll just get to the food.
Sat: I had 3 cans of what they call Artisan Craft chili from a company called Vietti. The variety is Buffalo Style Chicken Chili With Beans. It was good. I recall it actually being spicy. I also tried it with the picante sauce and hot sauce. I forget what I thought about those.
I also had something else. It was a box of Town House Flatbread Crisps. They were the Italian Herb variety. They were ok. I thought they would have tasted better. I don't know if they were old, or didn't taste good with the chili.
I don't think I was as gassy as I expected. I did have bad heartburn though.
Sun: I had a bag of Fritos. They were the Flamin Hot variety. They were ok. They were not hot. There was some of the fh taste though. Besides plain, I tried them with the hot sauce and/or picante sauce. I don't think I noticed the hot sauce. In think the picante sauce dominated the taste.
Mon: I ate the crumbs from the shredded wheat with canola oil. It was good. I had a snack which I'll skip.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
The meat item was another can of Sunny Sea sardines. They were good
Tue: I did extra snacking due to both stress and me eating later because I didn't have work on Wed. First I had a bag of soynuts(roasted soybeans) from Good Sense. They were ok. I thought at the time they had a grain taste, which obviously makes sense. It was like I had tasted it before. I had some theories. I was thinking the seed coat(brown surrounding stuff) on a peanut. Then I was thinking peanut shells, since sometimes I'll crack the shells by biting them. My final idea was related to the taste/smell symbiosis. Across the street form my grandparents house in Wisconsin was a tiny grain elevator. When I would walk past, I would smell the grain. I just thought of a fourth thing. At my parents old house, my mom would feed the Canadian geese cracked corn. The bag was kept in a plastic trash can. I was the one who would put the bag in the can.
I had the other 2 snacks later. One was a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna in water. It was good. The other was a bag of Cheetos. They were the Flamin Hot Limon. They were good. There might have been the thing where I tasted the limon taste at first, but it went away later. I used to notate items right away, and would also put my impressions. Now I often just put the items down later, and just do the reviews from memory as I type them up.
The meal was a variation of the experiment of the fried rice and veggies. Let me get 2 things out of the way first. I used half a bag of broccoli. I didn't add any spices.... The experiment was the rice and ramen thing. I used 2/3(before cooking) cup of rice. I also used 1 package of Maruchan chicken ramen. I cooked everything like I did on other occasions. I think I notated everything in a previous post. I don't feel like looking though. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
I ate way later than I planned to.
Wed: My meal was fried rice and vegies using half a bag of peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Thu: I notated that I had shredded wheat. I don't know if I opened them that day, or Tue or Wed. Other than that, I did stress snacking, which I'll discuss later. I had 2 things from a grocery store: a small container of chicken lo mein, and a pair of small crab rangoons. They were good. Later, I had a can of Vienna sausages off the shelf. They were good.
For my meal, I went to Arby's. I went to same one as last week, and got the same thing. This time, they had an unsanitary incident. This made me not have the onion rings with my meal, and keep them in the fridge. The sandwiches were good, even though I was not in a good mood. There was a negative. The person who made them did them hot dog style. The rolls weren't cut all the way through. They were opened up, and the cheese was put in, then the roast beef. This meant the cheese was on one side of the roll, and the beef was lopsided. The cheese isn't a priority, but I do want the stuff to be evenly distributed. They did put enough beef juice in the containers though.
Instead of the onion rings, I had a box of Chicken in a Biskit crackers. They were good.
Fri: I snacked on some shredded wheat. Before I had my meal, I ate the crumbs with some canola oil. I had 2 real snacks, which I'll put in paragraphs.
I got the first snack at a grocery store. In the weekly ad, they had flatbread sandwiches for $5. When I got there, I saw they were T. I. N. Y. I then went over to the hot section. There were large tortillas with stuff in them. I asked what they were. They were quesadillas. I thought quesadillas were cheese only, or just had a tiny bit of meat. They were $4.99 each, so I got one. It came with a small container of salsa and another of sour cream. Before I ate it, I warmed it up in the microwave. It was good.
When I watched TMZ, I had a bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I cooked it for 1:36. It didn't burn, and there were only maybe 4 or 5 unpopped kernels. I mixed in some canola oil. It was good. Last week, I put it in for 1:43. I forgot that that was the time I use for a regular sized bag.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Sat: I first snacked on the Arby's onion rings. I took them out of the fridge in the morning after I took a dump. I have the thermostat set at 65F. I was going to put them in front of the vent before 6:45pm, when the furnace turns on to go up to 68F. I was busy, so didn't get to move them until after 7. They did get 2 hits of warm air from the furnace before I had them after 8pm. I ate them while I was shaving. They were good.
Starting while watching Bones, I snacked on sweet stuff again. I finished the coconut. I finished the Tampico Strawberry Kiwi Punch. I thought I would finish the chocolate pecans, but I left some in the bag. I started on 2 different candies because I took them out of their bags. They were the Nestle Crunch and Whoppers malted milk balls. Everything was good. I forgot to pay close attention to the punch, but I think it didn't taste like strawberry.
That's all for the food for now. I'll have my meal later. Nothing to cook this time. I think I'll only review 2 of the 5 items.
It is 9:32am. I would have been done sooner if I had started typing during SNL. Also, after 7am, I took a massive dump. With that, my asshole was living up to its name. I pooped. I then started to wipe. Then I pooped more. I then wiped again, and then pooped more. Right now, it feels like I can go yet again. After I was done, I went to bed to take another nap, intending to get up before 9am to watch Meet the Press. I think I pretty much just laid there.
Hopefully next week will be better. See you then.
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Post by madmax on Dec 16, 2018 12:20:30 GMT -4
I'm back for this week. I'll just get to the food.
Sat: Like I said last week, I'll just list 2 of my food items. I had a can of Pizza flavor Pringles. They were good. I also had a can of StrarKist tuna. It was the oil variety. It was good.
Sun: I had half a box(2 packages) of store-brand saltines. One of the packages was opened on the bottom like it was cut with some sort of blade. The box was sealed, so it must have happened at the factory. It didn't seem to affect the taste; they just weren't crispy. Both packages of crackers were ok. I have another box, so I'll see how those taste before I decide if I'll buy them again.
This week, I ran out of cumin, but I don't recall what day.
Mon: For a snack, I had a bag of Clancy's Popcorn Puffs. They were good.
My meal was fried rice with veggies using broccoli. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I had a snack which I'll not review.
My meal was the same as Mon.
I finished the bottle of Yeo's hot sauce. I won't get it again.
Wed: I had 2 snacks. First was a package of Maruchan Instant Ramen. It was Pork flavor. I don't know what they were going for, since I couldn't tell if it tasted like pork. It was good though. I guess it's just another case of liking it for the actual taste and not for what it's called.
The other snack was a bag of Quaker Rice Crisps. They were the Buttermilk Rach flavor. I didn't think they were that good. This was because the rice itself was more prominent than the flavoring.
As I just said above, I finished that "hot" sauce. I opened a new bottle for my meal. It is a brand called Cook House. It is New Orleans Style, and is medium. There is heat. I bought it at ALDI. I was in line to check out. They opened another register, so I went over to it. There was a shopping cart right there with a sign saying all items $.50. The hot sauce was in the cart.
My meal was fried rice with veggies using half a bag of peas and carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Before I left for work on Thu, I took a dump. When In first started driving, my stomach felt a little bad, but it went away. Less than an hour(or was it 30 min) before I left work, I did at least one "warning" fart. Fortunately I was able to do my shopping and make it home. When I got home, I could feel I had to go, but wasn't having discomfort/pain/pressure. I took a big chili dump. I went about my business. I then was going to take a nap. I got to the bedroom door. I felt some pressure, which I thought was just a post-dump fart. When I pushed, I felt wetness in my butt. I went to the bathroom, and a bunch of liquid shot out. Thankfully I was naked, so I didn't have to worry about befouling my underwear. I checked the floor where I was standing, and nothing had dripped out. I then went into bed. I don't know if I slept at all. I did feel some pressure, and I could tell it wasn't a fart. After I got up, I went to the bathroom yet again, and had more liquid shoot out. It was accompanied by peas and carrots from my Wed meal. The toilet looked full of vegetable soup. I don't know what caused it. I don't think the pork flavor in the ramen would cause that. I've had a different flavor of the rice crisps before, and I didn't notate any stomach problems(which doesn't mean I didn't have any though). I was suspecting the hot sauce, but I would think it would have affected me earlier.
Thu: For a snack, I got some chicken wings at a grocery store. I heated them up in the microwave a bit before I ate them. They were really good. I think this was partially due to me being hungry; probably due to me emptying out earlier.
My meal was from Arby's; 4 French dip sandwiches and 2 orders of onion rings. There were no sanitary issues. Everything was good. There was more than enough beef juice, even after spilling some of it on my leg.
Fri: I had 2 snacks. First was some mini tacos that I picked up the day before at the store where I bought the wings. These aren't actually small tacos per se. These are chip-sized corn tortillas folded over some Mexican spiced meat and deep fried. Since I put them in the fridge in the non-airtight box they came in, I thought they would be soggy. They weren't. I put them in the oven to heat them up though, because I turned it on before I checked them. If I did put them in the microwave, they may have become soggy. They were good plain. I also tried them with the rest of the picante sauce and/or the hot sauce. They were also good.
Later when watching TMZ, I had a bag of the Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. I put it in for 1:36. I didn't count how many unpopped kernels there were. I added canola oil when it was done. It was good. As always, I ate it with chopsticks. I just ate it out of the bag. I did that last week at least, but don't remember how many times before that I also did it.
My meal was the same as Wed.
Sat: I had a bunch of stuff to snack on. I finished the chocolate pecans. I also finished the Whoppers and mini Crunch bars. I also had some dark chocolate covered almonds I got at the h/n/o store. They were all good. I also tried a beverage that I bought at ALDI. It was Nature's Nectar Aloe Vera Drink. It wasn't bad, nor good, just odd. It was some kind of fruit taste. My mom takes some kind of liquid aloe supplement, for I think regularity. I feel like I can take another dump, even though I took one at 7am. But that could be due to all the chocolate I ate, or the hot sauce from my Fri meal.
That's it for the food for now. I'll have my food after I take my dump.
I started typing at 2am. I got sidetracked for a bit. I took a dump after 7am, then went to bed to attempt to take a nap until 9am. I just laid there. It is now 1020am.
I will be back next week. I don't know if it will be Sun or Mon morning though. Next weekend is Xmas weekend. Also, there might be a gov shutdown on Fri. I don't know if it will happen, or if I would be a part of it. If there is, and I am, I will be doing something Fri I was planning on doing on Mon when I scheduled the day off. I'm also planning on doing something on Thu. I will report next week either way.
Also due to the Xmas weekend, I'll be having different stuff. That will start for my "Fri" meal. Depending on when I post, I might also post my "Sat" meal.
See you next week!
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