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Post by madmax on Mar 3, 2019 11:29:17 GMT -4
It's getting close to 2:30, and it's time for me to do my thing.
I do have something to address. A while back, the one grocery chain had a sale on frozen veggies. Besides bags of peas & carrots, I picked up a bag of just carrots. I'm almost 100% sure I also got a bag of just peas. I'm also almost 100% sure I already used said bag of peas for 2 meals. I checked my posts, and couldn't find it. I'm guessing I accidentally listed them as peas & carrots. It could be the case I didn't use it, but I went through my freezer looking for the last 2 Milford Valley chicken thingies and didn't come across it.
Now back to the present.
Sat: I had 5 things, but I'll only mention 2. First is a bag of Flamin Hot Cheetos. They were good. The other is a can of SpaghettiOs with meatballs. It was good. I don't know if it had more meatballs than the store version, but the can was bigger.
Sun: My meal was a bag of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. It was the Cheesy Pizza + Parmesan Mix. It was good. There is the big negative that there is only 6.6oz in the bag.
Mon: When I was cooking my rice in the late afternoon, I had the shredded wheat crumbs from the bag with some canola oil. I'm thinking I had that problem with my esophagus again, but it wasn't as bad. When I was actually cooking the meal, I opened up a new box of shredded wheat and had some of them with canola oil.
My meal was fried rice and veggies, using half a bag of peas and carrots. The only thing I added to the pan was hot sauce. The meal was good plain, with the ALDI chipotle mrs dash, and my 3 items.
Starting with the Tue meal, I started adding mustard to the pan again.
Tue: I had some shredded wheat, plain and with oil.
My meal was fried rice and veggies with p&c. I added everything to the pan. It was good plain, with the mrs dash, and my 3 items.
Wed: I had 2 snacks. First was some fried mushrooms I got in the hot section of a grocery store. They were ok. I don't think the mushrooms had much taste. Later I had a bag of Kettle Brand Potato Chips. They were the Jalapeno variety. They were good. There was some heat.
I also finished the shredded wheat and crumbs.
My meal was fried rice and veggies. This time I used half a bag of what was called "Winter Blend", which is a mix of cauliflower and broccoli. I intended to use half a bag of just broccoli, but I didn't look at the bag. The meal was good plain, with the mrs dash, and my 3 items.
Thu: I had "two" snacks. First was a meal box from Popeyes. It was the $5 Southern Butterfly Shrimp. This is comprised of shrimp, 1 side, and a biscuit. The biscuit was good. It had a bit of a buttery taste. My side was Cajun rice. It was good. The shrimp was also good. This is a limited time offer, but I hope it stays around for a while. I'd be willing to get more than one, and make a meal of them.
The other snack was a bag of NY Bakery Texas Toast Croutons. As to the variety, the bag just said "Seasoned Croutons". They were good. Something about the seasoning made them taste like pizza, which is quite often a good thing.
My meal was the same as Wed.
Fri: For snacks, the first thing I had was the last of the Milford Valley chicken thingies. This was the Chicken Kiev. I cooked it according to the instructions. I preheated the oven to 375F. You're supposed to cook it between 34-36min. I opted for 34min. When the 34 min was up, I went to take it out. I heard sizzling coming from the oven. When I opened it up, there was a puff of smoke. I took the chicken thing out. On the cookie sheet I used, there was this greasy liquid. I used my rubber scraper to put it in the dish the chicken thing was in. Obviously, the filling leaked out. If I had known that would happen, I would've used my casserole dish, so the stuff wouldn't leak off the edge and land jn the bottom of the oven. As for the taste, it was ok. I'm thinking it would taste better with the filling.
Later I had stuff I got at the deli/hot section of a store. I had fried shrimp. It was good. I also had 2 flautas(aka ?). They were good.
When the repeat of TMZ was on, I had my bag of Pop Weaver popcorn. I put canola oil in after cooking it for 1:36. There were 4 or 5 unpopped kernels. It was good.
When I was cooking my meal, I had a mouthful of store-brand bacon bits. I also had some after my meal they were good.
My meal was pasta with spinach. I used half a bag of rotini. I cook them WAY longer than the instructions say so the get soft and big. I drained off the water, which I kept. I then added canola oil, and a package of frozen spinach that I cooked in the microwave. After that, I added in something new. I took a can of black olives and drained off the liquid(which I drank). I then cut most(I ate a few) up into 4 pieces. I had this plain, with the mrs dash, and my 3 items. It was good. I don't think I really tasted the olives.
I need to mention something. I was planning on using mushrooms instead of olives. An 8oz container was on sale for $.99 at ALDI. The sale ran from 2/20-2/26. I didn't get them during this time due to my bad experience with getting some ahead of time. Sometimes at ALDI, they will keep the sale price on stuff after the actual sales period. I'm certain this happened with the mushrooms before. I went to 2 different stores, and they both were full price.
My meat item was a can of Crown Prince sardines. They were in tomato sauce. They were good. The can opener didn't get the whole can, so I had to use the super old one. It seemed to go better than previous times.
Sat: I snacked on sweet stuff. I had 1/3 of a package(only 5) of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the Soft Chunky Peanut Butter variety. They were good. Even though it was earlier this morning, I can't recall how much pb taste there was. I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Devil Creme: good, tasted like LD Swiss Rolls without the chocolate coating Zebra Cake Rolls: good, can't think of anything to compare them to
I also had a beverage. It was Calypso Black Cherry Lemonade. It was good. I tasted the cherry more, but it wasn't as strong as other cherry drinks.
There's 2 more things I need to add.
I think on Thu, the hot sauce all but ran out when I was cooking. There was a lot stuck on the inside of the bottle. I added some water and shook it up. It resulted in there being enough to use with my meal, and my Fri meal. I should be opening a new bottle this coming week.
When I cooked the second batch of noodles last week, I kept the water. I put it in the pan on Thu. I'm pretty sure I also did Wed. I'm not sure about Tue, but I'm thinking I didn't because I forgot about it.
That's all for the food. I still haven't decided what my meal will be. I think I'll take a dump before I eat.
It is 9:29am. It looks like I will have time to work on my trip post. I don't know if it'll be ready yet.
See you next week.
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Post by madmax on Mar 3, 2019 13:32:22 GMT -4
The last place in Olathe was the big pawn shop. I first went over to the gun area. They had a rack of rifles/shotguns out in the open. I picked up a coach gun. I opened it up, then closed it. I couldn't figure out how to cock it. Behind the counter, therewere 2 more. One of them was Russian, and was $289. It had a shoulder strap and holder for extra shells. I then went over to the music equipment shelves. There were a bunch of mixers. There was an old Peavey one for $99 or less. There was a large Carvinone for maybe $189. For amp heads, there were a few from Crate. There was a Rocktron one. There were bass heads from Kustom and Peavey. The only combo I notated was a Peavey Austin 400. There were some half stacks nearby. There was a Fender FH, and aLee Jackson. There was also a Sovtek head sitting on some other brand of cabinet. I then went back to the shelves where the keyboards were. There might have been some Casisahas, but I can't remember. There was an Ensoniq TS-12. There was also a KawaiK3.
Then I went over to the $$$$ counter. There were only a few fx in the case. I noted a Rocktron Banshee talkbox, and one of the Ibanez Tone-Lok series(I didn't even note which one). If those weren't the only 2, there weren't that many more. I can't say what was in the case instead, but I'm thinking 1 or 2 mini mixers, and some other electronic music doodads. There were quite a few guitars on the wall. There was a Gretsch. There were 2 PRS CE. There was a Yamaha with HSS pu config. There was some Ibanez that looked fancy, but that's all I noted. There was a Rickenbacker 6 string; I'm thinking it was a 325. They had a Gibson LP for $3199. There might also have been an LTD.
I then went over to the big wall of guitars. There was a mix of stuff, which was too much for me to notate, or even mentally take in. The only guitar I noted was one by Floyd Rose. There were only a few amps underneath. There was a Lab L5 for $399; probably the same one that's been there before. There was also a Kustom combo. I did mention one on a previous trip, but for some reason, I was thinking this one is different.
When looking at Google Maps beforehand, I saw there was a Guitar Center not that much out of the way. There used to be a Mars Music in that area, but I don't know if it was the same building. I drew a little map, but listed the street wrong. Even though I went the right way, I wasn't sure, so I took a left on the street I needed to be on. I then went all the way to the major highway I previously exited and turned around. I then went the other way and found the GC. If had only gone right, I would have found it right away.
There was nothing worth noting in the effects area.
I then went into the used area. There was a ton of stuff, even though the room was small. They had an Ovation Viper. There was a G&L Legacy with single coil sized humbuckers. There was some model of (semi)hollowbody 12 string. There was a Hondo V for $299. I didn't check what kind of neck it had. If it was in a pawn shop, it would probably much cheaper. I think there were some Gibson LP's in there also. For amps, there were bass heads from Carvin and Peavey. There was a Mesa Boogie Single Rectifier head. I don't recall if the cabinet it was on was also a MB. There was a newer Marshall 15 wat combo, and I think 1 or more heads. There was an old Gibson combo. There was also some small amp that looked to be from the 40's. To me, it looked like it would either zap you or catch fire.
I then went to the keyboard area. There was a small corner of small stuff I wanted to look at, but first I went in the big stuff room. There was an Oberheim Matrix 6 for $1499. I didn't know how to edit it, or want to try to figure it out, so I messed with some patches already on it. One of the patches was making a bad sound. I don't know if the patch was dodgy, or the synth itself. I then made my way back to the small stuff. There was a Roland JD-Xi. There was a KORG Minilogue. They also had a Behringer Model D for$299. I don't know if it was for that specific unit, or that was the price for a new-in-the-box one. It might have been connected to the KORG with a MIDI cable, but I can't remember. The synth I did mess with there was a Moog Grandmother. I know about synth components, but not how to do specific stuff with them. I was able to make a tornado siren sound.
I then went back to my regularly scheduled route, though CG will be added for next year.
The next stop was the pawn shop in Grandview. For guitars, there was an Epiphone lp special jr, and a strat with a long headstock. There was a Schecter 8 string, the 2nd I saw that day. There was a Washburn superstrat with 22 frets. There was an Epoch lp style guitar with 2 knobs. I also notated another lp style guitar, but didn't know or remember the brand. There was also a Yamaha Pacifica with a bridge humbucker and a neck P-90. I looks there is more than one model with this configuration, so I don't know which one it was.
For amps, I only noted 2 Peaveys. I think there were only maybe a few more tiny amps. One Peavey was a Minx 110 bass amp. The other was a KB 60 keyboard amp.
I then went to the Cash America relatively nearby. There were 3 guitars I noted behind the counter. One of them was a Starcaster for some reason. There were 2 lefty Schecters. One was "regular" version. The other was a Sun Valley Super Shredder. For guitars in the main area, there was a Maestro sg special jr. There were 3 strats: a Kona, a Jay Turser, and one with an Italian sounding name that I think started with an M. There was also a guitar I forgot to notate. It was a Wahburn; I'm 99% sure it was from the Billy T series.
For other stuff, I noted a Yamaha kb. I also noted a Marshall MG15.
The next place was Smart Pawn. When I got there, they were already getting ready to close. There was one of those chain gates in front of the gun area. I could see some the guns in the case. There was one that caught my eye, so I asked a worker to hold it up. It looked a bit like an MP5. It was actually a Scorpion 9mm from Czech. The gate was also blocking one of the guitar holders, but I was able to pretty much see what was there. For guitars, there was a Jackson with Fireball whiskey graphics. There were 2 Squiers, on being HSS. There was a GiO with HSS, but I can't remember if it was a regular strat copy or a superstrat. There was a Behringer guitar. There was a Hamer, but again I can't recall what kind, but am thinking it is one of their double cutaway models. There was also a Lyon by Washburn. When I put my notes on my computer, I added a link to a pic of one like it: therook.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1535683093-Buy-Lyon-by-Washburn-LI15-Black-Electric-Guitar-Review-Opinion.jpg
For amps, there was a Marshall half stack. I don't remember what model. There was a Vox amp for $599. It might have been an AC15.
For keyboards, there was a Roland XP-60. There was also an Alesis QS7. Even though it wasn't in my notes, I think there was also a small organ.
The next stop was the nearby Cash America. There was a Yamaha digital piano. For amps, there were 2 Marshalls. I think they were both small practice combos. My notes also say there was a Peavey TKO for $99. The huge Peavey TNT was back, so I don't know if I notated it wrong, or if the TKO was a different amp. For guitars, there were 2 Squiers. There was a Starcaster. There were 2 Rogue guitars. My notes said Rocket, but the only thing that comes up is Rocketeer. It looks like there are 3 different versions, but I don't know what these 2 were. There was also a guitar called a Steadman Pro for $99. It is a copy of a Randy Rhoads V. I played with it unplugged, and it didn't seem too bad. I looked up on Google about it, and it appears to be a Chinese piece of crap.
I then decided to visit the 2 places that were closed before.
The first was Alpha Pawn.
The Roland digital piano and overpriced Casio were still there. There was also a Yamaha kb. For guitars, there was a lefty LTD tele. I don't know if it was the same one from last time, because I didn't indicate that one was a lefty. There was also a Schecter. There was a Yamaha AES. They seem to be good guitars, but are ugly.
Finally I visited the other place.
For keyboards, there were 2 digital pianos, but I didn't note the brand. There was also a Lowrey Mini Genie. For guitars, there was a Jay Turser lp for $219. There was also a no-name doubleneck for $99. I did play with it unplugged. The strings had buzzing issues. I think I recall looking at the necks, and that the strings weren't too low. This means there was probably a problem with the bridge and/or nut. Also, it sounded too thin. If it wasn't for those 2 problems, I would have bought it even though it didn't even have a brand name. There was an old Yamaha Fifty 112. There was a Randall RG-25R. One of the knobs(for reverb maybe) was missing, so someone replaced it with a large ugly knob. I think any knob would have been ok if it was of appropriate size. There was a Crate PA head which might have been a PA-4. There were 5 Peavey amps I noted. There was a PA head like the one that was at the "strip club" pawn shop. There was a 2x12" speaker model from the Transtube(I think red stripe era) series. There was a 2x12" Chorus model. There was a Vegas combo. There was also a Combo 115.
I'm finally done!!!! It only took me over 2 months after I visited these places.
I need to make another non-food post, but I'll leave that for another time. See you next week.
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Post by madmax on Mar 10, 2019 12:13:01 GMT -4
Hello. It is a bit after 4am. This is primarily due to the time change. I might say some more later.
I'll get to the food.
Sat: I had 4 items, but I'll only review 2. The main item was 2 cans of Campbell's soup. They were the Mexican-Style Chicken Tortilla. It was ok. There was a spicy flavor, but no heat. The other item was a box of Keebler Town House Focaccia crackers. They were the Rosemary & Olive Oil variety. They were good.
Sun: I finished up a jar of peanut butter. It was a generic brand chunky. It was good. I'll open up a new jar tonight.
My meal was a bag of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Pretzels. They were good.
Mon: First I had a mouthful of store-brand bacon bits. They were good. Later, I had a package of Maruchan ramen. It was the Creamy Chicken flavor. It was good. Later I had a bag of Clancy's funyns. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. I used up the rest of the curry powder. I used water from cooking the pasta. The day before, I cleaned most of the burnt sludge out of my oil pot. I used some of that also.
Last week, I mentioned putting water in the hot sauce bottle because there was so much stuck on the sides. I added some of this to the pan, and I think I used the rest with my meal.
The meal was good plain, with pepper, with soy sauce, with the mrs dash, and probably the hot sauce.
Tue: My first snack was a bag of Good Sense Sesame Oat Bran sticks. They were good. Later I had a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were good. I think I took them right off the shelf.
I opened up a new bottle of hot sauce. It is Trappey's Red Devil Cayenne Pepper Sauce. It just had a basic flavor. I can't remember how hot it is.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen broccoli. The only extra thing I added to the pan was the hot sauce. It was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash.
Wed: I opened up a new box of ALDI shredded wheat, and ate a bunch plain, and with canola oil. I had a mouthful of store-brand bacon bits. I also had a bag of what seem to be imitation pork rinds(made from flour). It was a brand called Mi Costenita. The Spanish name of the snack is chicharron harina con chile y limon. They also have an English translation: wheat pellets with chili and lemon. It was good. These are small squares or rectangles. When I hear the word "pellets", I think of something small and round, like dry pet food.
My meal was veggie fajitas. I used 1/2 cup(before cooking) of rice. I used half a bag of peas & carrots. I used some of the pasta water, and the rest of the sludge. The beans I used were half a can of Mrs. Grimes Spicy Hot Chili Beans. I prepared and ate the tortillas in my regular order. I can't recall which of the pepper and hot sauce ones were eaten 2nd and 3rd. They were all good.
I didn't have fun on Thu. Before I left for work, I felt I had "one in the chamber", so I took a large dump. At work, I did some farts, but then more non-solid poo blocked my sphincter. Eventually the pressure was too much, and I couldn't concentrate on my work. I went and took another dump. There wasn't as much, but It was accompanied by a few farts. I felt better. I did some more farts. Then I felt I could take ANOTHER dump! After work, instead of going shopping, I rushed home and emptied out. Volume-wise, it ranked 2nd. Thankfully, I didn't have to go anymore, even though my rectum felt a bit "queasy". After that, I went out and did my shopping.
Thu: I had some shredded wheat both plain and with canola oil. I got my first snack at Church's. There is a deal called the $5 Garlic Butter Shrimp Platter. Besides the shrimp, you get a biscuit and2 sides, even though the sign on the window says fries and coleslaw. I did get fries, but I got fried okra instead of coleslaw. Let me review this stuff in list form: biscuit: It was good even though there was a honey taste. fries: They were ok. They probably would have tasted better hot. They don't give you a lot. okra: It was good. There was a LOT there. shrimp: It was ok.
I think I'd go with the Popeye's deal. You only get 1 side, but I think there was more shrimp, and it tasted better.
Later I had a can of Vienna sausages. They were good. I think I took them right off the shelf.
I got my meal from Arby's. I got 2 orders of onion rings. They were good. They are doing the 2/$5 fish sandwich deal, but it is only for the ones on buns, not flatbread. I got 2 Crispy(aka regular) and 2 Cajun. They were good.
Fri: I had a few snacks. First, something I'll skip. Next was 2 pieces of pizza from a hot section of a grocery store. I kept on falling asleep. I missed the re-broadcast of TMZ. I didn't feel like making a bag of microwave popcorn. Instead, I had a bag of Simply Nature(ALDI brand) cooked popcorn. It was Sea Salt And Black Pepper. It was good. I did taste the pepper a little bit. I ate it with chopsticks out of an Instant Lunch cup. I'm thinking I had a mouthful of the bacon bits. When I was cooking my meal, I ate the rest of the shredded wheat, mostly with the oil, and the crumbs with oil.
My meal was the veggie fajitas with peas & carrots. I cooked the 3rd and 4th(eating order, 2 and 3 cooking order) tortillas too long. When I tried to bent the 3rd one, it broke. When I tried to bend the 4th one, it folded instead of bending. This time, with my meal, I used the mrs dash instead of black pepper. The one where I just added that was good. I could taste it, and there was some heat. Due to the problem with the tortillas, I didn't pay close attention to the taste of the one with just hot sauce, and the one with both. They were good though, as were the plain ones.
Sat: The only thing I snacked on was a mouthful of bacon bits. I didn't just chew them up and swallow. I kept them in my mouth for a long time, getting a lot of bacon taste.
That's it for this week. I'll be having my meal soon. I will be having 6 or 7 things, 2 of which will be new flavors of stuff I've had before. I'll review that stuff next week.
It is now after 11am. Besides the time change, I took a long time getting my reading done. I was going to take a nap at 1am. I had to take a dump instead. I then waited until 2, when the time shifted to 3 to take my nap. I slept for about an hour, and got up to watch Bones, which was moved to 4am this week. I think I dozed off a while between 5 and 6 or 6 and 730. I went and took another 60min nap. I also took another dump around 910am when Meet The Press was on.
I'll see you soon!
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Post by madmax on Mar 17, 2019 11:51:24 GMT -4
Hello, it is getting close to 1245am. I would have started earlier, but I was trying to get the Reverb site to display in English. It was in German for some reason.
This week I was planning to start not snacking, so as to lose some weight. It started out that way, but shit happened at work that made me say fuck all to that, and caused my to stress snack. On Wed, right as I was getting ready to leave, the manager has me come in her office. She told me one of the cleaning ladies accused me of calling her a bitch the previous day. I told her I didn't do that. What likely happened was that I got mad at the stuff I was working on, and vented. Then on Thu, I had to go back in there. This time, it was about a form that was incorrectly filled out. I had circled the errors, and drew lines between them to indicate the errors were related. Kind of like an upside down version of this: www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/scot13s.jpg Apparently one of the drool bibs in our "quality" department thought that looked obscene. For some reason, the manager agreed, but wouldn't tell me what it was supposed to look like. Then to Fri. I was doing my work, then the manager gets me again. She told me I had to go see what would be the equivalent to Internal Affairs as seen on police shows. They said I called the cleaning lady a fucking bitch. Just like the IA people on cop shows, these guys were bullies. To top it off Mon was my birthday. Happy fucking birthday to me!
Lets get to the food.
Sat: I had 3 8oz blocks of cheese. I don't feel like going into why I ate that much cheese for this meal. The cheese was a generic brand. I had a monterey jack, a muenster, and a mozzarella. With this brand, the mj tastes better than the muenster. The mozz was best. I had 2 snack items. First was a box of Cheezits. They were the Cheese Pizza flavor. They were ok. There was no pizza taste. I'm sure they tasted like all the other flavors of Cheezits I've had that all seem to taste the same. The other item was a bag of Flamin Hot Limon Cheetos. They were good. I don't think they were as hot as the regular FH Cheetos. The meat item was a can of Spam. It was the Jalapeno variety. It was ok. It had pieces of jalapeno in it. I could taste something, but I couldn't id it as jalapeno. There was no heat.
Sun: I opened a new jar of peanut butter. I'll review it when I'm done.
I was still stuffed when it was time for my "meal". I was planning on having one of those smaller bags of Pepperidge Farms Goldfish. It was getting really late, so I wanted something quicker to eat. I had a box of Nabisco Vegetable Thins. They were good, but really salty.
Mon: I didn't get hungry, so I didn't have a snack.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of broccoli. The only extra stuff I added was cumin, and some water from some of the bottles and/or jar. The meal was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash.
Tue: I think I did get hungry, so I did snack on a mouthful of the store-brand bacon bits. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of broccoli. I went back to using all the stuff in the pan. It was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash.
My meat item was a can of Sunny Sea sardines. They were the brine variety. They were good.
Wed: When I got home, I opened a box of store-brand shredded wheat. I had them both plain and with canola oil. They don't taste as good plain. They do go really well with the canola oil.
While watching The Goldbergs, I had a cup of Maruchan Instant Lunch. It was the Shrimp flavor. It was good, even though I don't really think it tastes like shrimp.
Later, I had a bag of veggie chips from the h/n/o store. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies. This time I used half a bag of frozen carrots. After cooking them for the first 3min, I took the dish out of the microwave, and cut up the carrots into smaller pieces. It was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash. The carrots did not dominate though.
Thu: At work, there was a St Patrick's Day meal. I got some stuff when they were getting ready to clean up. I saw the manager after that. I decided to have more stuff to snack on. I can't recall if I had any shredded wheat.
The first snack item actually caused me more stress. I went to a grocery store to pick up the main component of my meal. They also had boneless wings on sale for $4.99lb. I went to the deli/hot section. I asked the guy about these. He directed me to what I think was the end of salad bar. There were pans of wings with tongs and empty containers. I put some in a container. When I got home, I saw I was charged the full price, $7.99lb. I drove back tot he store and went to the customer service counter. I got my discount. It was only like $1.46, but that's my fucking money.
The wings were the hot variety. Before I ate them, I warmed them up in the microwave for 40sec, at 50% power. They were pretty good, but a few were kind of tough. I think there was a little heat.
I had another snack later.
My meal was rueben sandwiches. The store was doing a bogo deal. I got 4 sandwiches. They were good. With these, the stuff between the bread was better spread out than last year; though I visited a different store in that chain last year.
I was considering having a snack item with the sandwiches. But I thought that since I had all that food earlier, it would bee too much. I was right. When I was done with the reubens, I was full.
Fri: When I got home, I had some shredded wheat, both plain and with canola oil. I did the same thing while I was cooking my meal.
Later I had a thing of Maruchan Yakisoba. It was the Spicy Teriyaki Beef Flavor. When I emptied out the spice packet, I put a bit of water in to rinse it out. I then licked out what was left inside, and there was some heat. The yakisoba was good. There was some heat.
Later, I had 2 things. One was a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were good. I put them in the fridge beforehand. The other item was a bag of Clancy's(ALDI brand) cheetos. They are the Firey Hot variety. They were ok I guess. They were NOT hot. Since the store brand has been gone for a while, I can't make a comparison which tastes better. I think I had to get used to those; so I'd probably have to do the same with these. I guess I'll buy them again, and give them a second, and maybe third, chance.
Normally I would have a bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn while watching the 330am rebroadcast of TMZ. Well I had the popcorn, but not during TMZ. I was so worn out from the stress of Fri, that I fell asleep a bunch of times, including when TMZ was on. I think it was 5am. I cooked it for 1:36, like every other time. I added canola oil after. It was good. There seemed to be more unpopped kernels this time. I ate it with chopsticks out of the empty Yakisoba container from earlier.
My meal was the same as Wed.
My meat item was a can of Sunny Sea sardines. They were the brine variety. They were good.
Sat: I just had a teaspoon of the bacon bits.
My meal is cooking right now. I'll be eating after noon, but I still consider it my Sat meal. It is a repeat of last year, but this time I didn't fuck up.
It is now 1051am. I think I'll start pretyping my other stuff since I have to wait on my food.
Hopefully, this coming week will be better. I should be seeing you after. Bye!
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Post by madmax on Mar 24, 2019 12:07:12 GMT -4
Ok, another week has passed by. This one was better than the week before. I didn't need to do any stress eating, and kept the snacking to a minimum. With that out of the way, let's get to the food.
Sat: This is a repeat of last year. For the St Patrick's weekend, I made corned beef and cabbage. If you read last year's entry, you may remember that I fucked up by missing a spice package in with the meat, and melting the plastic in the pot. This time, the way I opened the meat package and dumped it out, the spice package was sitting on top.
Since this meal is a repeat, I'll copy/paste for the most part, but there are some changes, so read below.
I bought a package of Buckley Farms corned beef that was point cut(I don't know what the fuck that means, but it was on sale for $1.99/lb), that was 2.35lb. I cut open one end and squirted out the liquid(blood/picking liquid) into the pot. I then cut the package all the way open and put the corned beef in the pot. I cut open the spice package(which looked to be mostly coarsely ground pepper) and dumped it in the pot. Then was the cabbage. The store was also having a sale on those for $.19/lb. I bought 3. I think they weighed a total of over 10lb(I recall it being 10.34). A large one to cut up and use for my regular meals. A smaller one I would cut up and use for this meal. The last one was a tiny one that I was going to cut up some of and use for this meal, and cut the rest up to use for my regular meals. I cut up the slightly smaller cabbage and put it in the pot. There was enough in there that I didn't have to cut up the tiny one at all. I then poured in 2 boxes(1qt each) of chicken broth(that I bought at Dollar Tree).I also added 2 cups of water. The cabbage wasn't completely covered, but I figured it would cook down. I then turned the burner up to 7 to bring it to the boil. When it was doing that, I heard a weird crackling sound. I attributed it to the beef being on the bottom of the pot. When it came to a boil, I set the burner to simmer and put the lid on. Every 20 min, I stirred the cabbage around. It did cook down, and the rest that would stay above the liquid got softened by the steam. After an hour, I turned the beef over. I saw something odd on the bottom but chalked it up to the beef sitting on the bottom of the pan when it was getting heated up. The instructions said to cook for 50 min per lb of meat, so I did. It also said to let rest(aka sit off the heat before cutting)for 20-30 min. After 20 min, I started eating. I used some tongs to pull the beef up and I cut it into smaller chunks with my big knife.
I cooked it for a timed amount of 1:57:30. Last year, I'm pretty sure the crackling was the spice package. This year, it was probably the meat sizzling. There were 2 odd things. When I had the heat up, there were ribbons of smoke/fumes coming from the bottom of the pot. I took the pot off the stove and looked at the bottom. There was nothing stuck on the pot or on the burner. Also, the bottom of the pot bowed out. Later, the pot flattened out to normal.
It was extremely good. The cabbage was nice and soft, and the beef was very tender. I finished all the corned beef and most of the cabbage. There was a lot of little pieces left over in the liquid. I filled up a quart container, and a smaller one with the liquid/cabbage mix and put them in the fridge.
When I was eating, I saw something in the pot. I pulled it out. It was a piece of the spice packet. I remember putting the pieces on the stove. What I think happened was that the piece stuck to one of the utensils I was using in the pot and fell off when I had said utensil in there. Fortunately, it didn't look to be melted, so probably just floated around in the liquid.
Like last year, Sun was not a fart fest. I must have boiled all the farts out of the cabbage.
This meal was very cheap. It was like 1/3 or 1/4 the cost of what I paid in 2017 for cb&b in the ready-made area at that grocery store.
Sun: Since I ate so much cb&c, and it was so late, I wasn't really that hungry. I just had a little bit of cereal and peanut butter.
Mon: After I got home from work, I finished the shredded wheat and the crumbs. I had a few plain, and the rest(and the crumbs) with canola oil. Later I snacked on a bag of Mexican funyuns. They were good. I also drank the liquid/cabbage mix out of thesmall container, and some from the big container. It was good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen peas & carrots. The only thing I added to the pan was the liquid cabbage mix. After I put the rice in the pan, I let it cook for maybe 3 min. I then took it of the burner and tuned the burner down to 3 to let things cool off a bit. This is because I didn't want the liquid to boil off. I added the liquid and stirred it in. I then let it cook for 5min. I stirred the pan, then let it cook for another 5 min. I then took it off the stove to coo loff. It was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash. I don't remember if I tasted the liquid.
Tue: I had some bacon bits.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. I was inspired by the previous night's meal to try something new. After I added the 2nd round of spices...., I cooked it for 5 min. I then stirred it, and let it cook for another 5min. I then took it off the burner. I usually let it cook for periods of 10 min, and stir between, until the rice gets browned/burnt to my liking. This time, I didn't really want the rice to get browned. Unlike the previous night, I didn't turn the burner down. I wanted the water to cook off so as to make the rice/veg mixture not watery, but I still wanted it to be moist and not dried out. As for the taste, it was good plain, with my 3 items, and the mrs dash.
I noticed that cooking it less meant there was more there. Apparently, browning everything makes it shrink a lot. Also, it took less time to cook. I was thinking Mon's meal took even less time because I didn't have a first round of stuff to add to the pan, but I think that was pretty much negated by me letting stuff cool off before adding the liquid/cabbage mix.
Wed: I had some bacon bits.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. I used the last of the hot sauce while cooking, so I didn't have any with my meal. While I didn't run out of mrs dash, there was just a little left after adding it to the pan while cooking. I wanted to save it to try when having something else. The meal was good plain, with pepper, and soy sauce.
Thu: I almost forgot about my snack. I was walking past the hot/deli section of a grocery store. There were pieces of pepperoni pizza. I asked the worker how much they are, and he said $.99. I decided to get one. When I got home, I saw it was much smaller than it looked in the case. It had that look that it needed to be heated up. I put it in for 30sec. I think I had the power level really low; like 20%. If not, it was 50%. When it was cooking, I heard a noise that sounded like sizzling. When I opened the door, the pizza was sizzling. The pizza wasn't very good. It went from hot to cold very quickly. The crust on the edge was hard.
I got my meal at Popeyes. There is a deal where you get 9 pieces of chicken for $11.99. I also got 2 of those $5 Southern Butterfly Shrimp deals. For one, my side was fries, and the other one was jambalaya. I also got 2 containers of gravy. When I was in the car, I saw the containers didn't have a lot of gravy in them. When I was at the grocery store afterward where I got my pizza, I got a can of generic turkey gravy.
Since I eat way later after I bought my food, I wanted to heat it up. Also, often times breading on stuff will get mushy from sitting around, especially in a container with other hot stuff, due to steam. I preheated the oven to 425F. I put the chicken on a cookie sheet. I left it in the oven for 10 min. I took it out, and put the chicken in the frying pan. The chicken was pretty warm, and the breading was crispy. There was a bunch of grease on the cookie sheet. I put the shrimp in the small casserole dish, and put the fries on top of the shrimp. After I took the chicken out of the oven, I tuned it off, and put the casserole dish inside. I left in in until the stuff inside started to get hot. The biscuits were hard. I put them in the microwave for a bit. I don't recall if I put them on a lower power level at first. When I did get done cooking them, they were soft, but hot. Of course I cooked the turkey gravy.
The biscuits were good. The jambalaya was good, but would probably taste better if warm. The chicken was good. I dipped it in the Popeyes gravy first until it ran out. That was good, and spicy. I then was dipping the chicken in the store gravy, which was also good.
The stuff in the casserole dish was like the pizza in that it cooled off really quickly. The fries were ok. There were a lot more than I got at Church's. I also tried dipping some fries in both gravies. The shrimp didn't taste that good this time. When I got to it, I was already pretty stuffed, and just wanted to finish it. I don't know if I shouldn't have eaten the pizza and/or just gotten one of those meal boxes. When I got those shrimp deals before, I had them as a snack and ate them a lot sooner, so they had less time to cool off and/or get stale.
My main negative was that the Popeyes gravy was super expensive(I think $1.89) for how much you get, even though it was good. I would recommend getting some cheap turkey(has more flavor than chicken) gravy instead. You could always add your own spices.
I was surprised that when I got up Fri for work, I didn't have to take a large dump. Not even after I got home. I didn't go until Sat morning.
I did have something odd happen at work though. I don't know if the heaters got cranked or not, but I was feeling VERY hot. So much so, that I did not have any energy. I ended up dozing off. When I woke up, I didn't feel as hot. Eventually, I felt normal temp-wise. I did feel a bit sluggish the rest of the day though. If it wasn't a problem with the hvac system at work, maybe I suffered a brief, intense fever. Or, my body for some reason converted all the food I ate into energy in the form of heat.
Fri: I was still feeling full on Fri. I was going to pick up a snack at Taco Bell, but didn't feel like waiting behind the 2 ladies that got there seconds before me. I didn't mind following the one in who was wearing those stretchy exercise pants.
I was planning on having something at home. I didn't because I felt drowsy, and ended up dozing off a bunch of times. I did catch the 330am repeat of TMZ, but didn't have my bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn then. I waited until a little after 5am. I cooked it for 1:36, and added canola oil after. It was good. I ate it out of an Instant Lunch cup with chopsticks. I think there were over 5 unpopped kernels.
I opened up a new bottle of hot sauce. It is the same generic brand I had in Jan, but this was apparently a new variety, "Louisiana-Style". It was ok. It didn't seem hot at all for some reason.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. The only things I added was the hot sauce, and some water from some empty bottles that didn't have the taste of their contents anymore. The reason for using the water this time was specifically to keep the other stuff from burning, because when I don't add everything, it seems to go from nothing to burnt in an instant. The water didn't help. Nevertheless, the meal tasted good plain and with my 3 items.
Sat: I snacked on sweet stuff. I had 1/3 of a package(only 5) of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the Soft Chunky Peanut Butter variety. They were good. Even though it was earlier this morning, I can't recall how much pb taste there was. I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Zebra Cake Rolls: good, maybe tasted like LD Swiss Rolls Devil Creme: good, tasted like LD Swiss Rolls without the chocolate coating
I had 2 things I got from the h/n/o store Fri. I had some dark chocolate covered raisins. They were ok. I also had some chocolate covered peanuts. They were good.
I also had a beverage. It was Calypso Strawberry Lemonade. It was good.
I finished the little bit of bacon bits. They were good.
That's all for now. I'll be having my meal in a little while. I think I'll take a dump first. I'm having 5 things, and I think I'll only review 3 of them next week.
It is after 11am. I started typing before my pre-Bones nap. I fell asleep near the end of the TMZ weekend edition, and didn't wake up until 417am, missing over half of the Washington Week rebroadcast on PBS. I felt rather out of it until maybe 6am. Later, I took another nap, but slept 27min more than I intended. Again, no time to do any pretyping on my other post.
I guess I'll be back next week.
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Post by madmax on Mar 31, 2019 8:20:28 GMT -4
It is after 2am. I was feeling ok, but I opened a letter from my bank. It said my checking account was overdrawn from my credit card payment. I transferred money into my checking account before that. I was thinking that when I went in to make my mortgage payment, the girl took it out of my checking account instead of my savings account, even though I specified my savings account. I then remembered that there should have been enough money in my savings account to cover both things. There is a branch in a grocery store that opens at 10am. I'm going to see if I can call them and find out what the fuck is going on.
I needed to make a correction from last week. I said the hot sauce was "Louisiana-Style". I looked at the bottle, and it was "Louisiana Style". I might change it up above, but I'll see how I'm feeling.
I used up the bottle of mustard. I think it was last week, and not this week.
I guess it's back to the present.
Again, I was intending to reduce my snacking. And again, that wasn't the case.
Sat: I had 5 things, but I'll only review 3. I had a can of Salt & Vinegar Pringles. They were good. One of my meat items was a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna in water. It was good. I had a bag of Chex Mix. It was the Ghost Pepper variety. It was good. It was hot. There was some tongue burn, and it caused my eyes to tear up a bit. Thankfully, the heat went away when I ate something else, or drank some water.
Sun: I forget if I've mentioned it before, but just about every Sun night, I have some cereal and peanut butter before I have my main food item. I just don't mention it every week, unless I finish one or the other, or both.
My main food item was a bag of Pepperidge Farms Goldfish. They were the Xplosive Pizza flavor. They were good.
Mon: I had a snack. It was a bag of Late July tortilla chips. They were the Jalapeno Lime flavor. They were good. There was actually some decent heat.
My meal was fried rice and veggies, using half a bag of peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tues: I had a snack. It was a bag of Clancy's pork rinds. They were good. That being said, they are a food item that once you have them, you don't feel like having them again for quite a while.
My meal was the same as Mon.
Wed: I opened a package of store-brand bacon pieces. I had a mouthful. They were good. I think I had these because I was feeling hungry, and just that little bit stopped my hunger.
My meal was the same as Mon.
Thu: The first thing I snacked on was a bag of NY Bakery Texas Toast croutons. They were the Caesar flavor. They were good. Later, I had a bunch of dolmades that I picked up at the grocery store that has them in their deli. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies, using half a bag of peas & carrots. There's something I need to mention first. I've mentioned long ago, when I finish a bottle or jar of a condiment, I fill it with waster to rinse it out, and use that water in the pan. I usually keep adding water until the water in the container doesn't have a taste anymore. I've had to refrain from refilling the containers for now. Due to the flooding on the MO River, the water treatment has been a bit problematic. The water has either a chemical taste, or tastes like there is dirt in it. I don't want to refill my containers with this water. This means that I ether ran out, or was very low(I didn't want to use it all up) on the water. Besides maybe adding some flavor, this water also helps keep the mixture from burning. With less water, the mixture got more burned than I wanted it to. Nevertheless, it was good plain and with my 3 items.
I think on Wed, I was also adding less water. In fact, that might have been the day the stuff burned too much. If so, I think on Thu I didn't cook the stuff as long so as not to burn it too much.
Fri: First I had a mouthful of bacon pieces because I was feeling really hungry.
My first snack was 2 things from Taco Bell. First was a soft taco. Next was a Beefy Fritos Burrito from the $1 menu. Both were good. I used the Diablo sauce on them. Since I had these a few hours after I bought them, the Fritos in the burrito weren't crunchy. There was something else at the Taco Bell itself that I wanted to mention. They had one of those DIY credit card scanners there. After I did that, a message popped on the screen asking if I wanted to donate to some kind of charitable thing. I intended to decline, but the "buttons" were so close together, that I accidentally selected yes. Fortunately, I checked my receipt, and it only rounded it up to the next dollar, so it was only $0.43.
Later, I had 2 other things. One was a can of Vienna sausages. They were good. I put them in the fridge beforehand. The liquid gooified, and stayed that way. The other item was a bag of rolled tortilla chips(think Doritos Dinamitas or Takis) from Dollar Tree. The brand was Fieras. They were chili lime flavor. They were good. There was cumulative heat. It got really hot. So much so that I wasn't able to concentrate to read. I actually tried rubbing the Vienna sausages on my lips to try to get rid of the heat.
Again, I had my bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn after 5am. I saw the beginning of TMZ, but fell asleep. Like always, I put the popcorn in for 1:36, and added canola oil afterward. It was good. There were only 7 unpopped kernels.
My meal was pasta and spinach. I used half a bag of rotini. This time I tried a new ingredient. I picked up an 8oz container of mushrooms at ALDI since they were on sale. I sliced them up. After I drained the water from the rotini and added canola oil, I added the mushrooms. I then added the spinach, and stirred it all up. I then put the lid on, and went to do something else.
The meal was good. I had it plain and with my 3 items. I was able to taste the mushrooms. The heat from the pasta and spinach were able to cook the mushrooms a bit.
My meat item was a can of Crown Prince sardines. They were in tomato sauce. They were good. Again, I had to finish opening the can with the old can opener.
When I got to the last of the mushrooms, there were 2 tiny ones in the container. There was dirt on them. I put water in the container in order to wash them off. That didn't work. I then tried picking the dirt off with the corner of a flap from a paperboard box. That didn't really work either. Not wanting to waste food, I just ate them. They didn't really taste that good. That was in spite of the dirt taste. I did wash my mouth out afterward.
I think next time the mushrooms go on sale, I'll put them in the pasta, but I'll add black olives instead of spinach.
Sat: For snacks, I had a little bit of cereal. I also finished a jar of peanut butter. It was a store-brand creamy with honey. It was good. I'll open a new jar Sun night. I snacked on some other sweet stuff. I had 1/3 of a package(only 5) of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the Soft Chunky Peanut Butter variety. They were good. I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Zebra Cake Rolls: good Devil Creme: good
I had 2 things I got from the h/n/o store Fri. I had some dark chocolate covered raisins. They were ok. I also had some chocolate covered peanuts. They were good.
I also had a beverage. I think the brand is Clear Fruit. The flavor is Cherry Blast. It was good.
That's all for the food. I'll be having my meal later. I'll have 4 things, but the only thing I may review is the meat item.
It is now 720am. After I get up, Ill do some reading, then resume pretyping my other post when Meet The Press is on.
Bye.
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Post by madmax on Mar 31, 2019 11:34:56 GMT -4
On the Sat before President's Day, I went to the pawn shop and thrift stores in Blue Springs, where I get my car worked on. I then visited the thrift stores in Independence. And finally, the thrift stores in Liberty, where I used to live, and my parents stilldo. I'll not mention the places where I didn't find anything. The cat shelter thrift store was closed.
The first place is the Blue Springs pawn shop. It was in the news 2 weeks ago: www.kctv5.com/news/blue-springs-police-seek-info-on-theft-of-firearms/article_15a7a34e-3fb3-11e9-bcfc-67bfd7dec4f2.html
For guns, I noted a Kel-Tec KSG. For musical instruments, there was an autoharp. There was a Woodrow Northender KC Chiefs guitar like this one: sportsvault.com/collections/electric-guitar/products/kansas-city-chiefs-northender-guitar
There was a Fender Strat with a hardtail, and 2 EMG hb. I didn't check where it was made. I think I've seen it there before. There was a Jackson guitar with 24 frets and hh pu config. It had 3/4 sized body. There were 2 Schecters, both hardtails of course. One was hh, and the other hss. THe hh one had 24 frets, and I'm thinking the other one did too, but not sure. There was a Gretsch that appears to be a G5425. It might have only been $179. There was a Washburn acoustic 12-string, also maybe $179. I playedit a bit. For amps, there was one of those Marshall Woburn turds. There was an acoustic AG-15 for $49. There was also some model of 2x12 Crate. There was also an auto harp.
At the nearby Red Racks, there was what looked to be a trumpet case behind the counter. I didn't ask to see inside.
At the Goodwill next door, There was a First Act kiddie acoustic. There was also a piano with small keys. My notes say "Stroud" and "Aeolian". Looking on Google, Stroud might have been a budget brand of the Aeolian company.
Even though I didn't put it in my notes, I stopped at Thrift Word, and saw that the ART mixer was gone.
At the Salvation Army, there were a bunch of instrument cases. I didn't ask to see in them. I'm thinking there were trumpets, clarinets, and/or violins. The mandoharp was still there. There was some small harp. My notes mention it was like a First Act one, but I don't recall if it was the curvy shape or the trapezoidal one. There was a rain stick in the main area. There were 4 crappy keyboards. There was a Technobeat. There was a Goldtronic. There was a Kawai MS510. According to an online review, it had a function where you can combine a pair of sounds. The way he phrases it makes it sound like that causes the kb to become monophonic. There was also a tiny no-name kb. My notes say "rr", so I'm thinking it said "Rock n Roll".
In the Savers in my town, There was a Peavey Envoy 110 for $34.95. I think it was a blue stripe model from the 80's. In the front, there was a plucked dulcimer, a flute, a trumpet, and trombone.
The last place there was stuff was the thrift store where I know the manager, and we go in the back area. The Casio that might be fried was still there. There was an old Framus 12 string acoustic, that she said they were going to ask $150 for. It had a skinny neck. I played on it a bit, but didn't have an opinion. That was partly due to that only 5 pairs were there, and they were shifted 1 over. On a right-handed guitar held vertically, the strings go EADGBE. This guitar was either xEADGB or ADGBx, where x is the missing pair.
That's all for the trip.
I will be going back to my former town in a few weeks. I'll also be doing something else I do this time of year. Stay tuned.
Before I go, the bank called back. Apparently there were some fraudulent charges on my from my debit card, even though it's still here, and I never even activated it.
It looks like I need to take a dump, then I'll go eat.
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Post by madmax on Apr 7, 2019 12:13:44 GMT -4
Hello again. This week started and ended shittily. I'll get to this later. I think I'll just get to the food. Somehow, I didn't open up the other box of shredded wheat. I also only had 1 or 2 stress eating items.
Sat: I had 4 things for my meal. The only thing I'll review is the meat item. It was a can of Deutsche Kuche Herring Fillets in Mango Pepper Sauce. They were good.
Sun: Before my "meal", I had some peanut butter and cereal. I finished up the box of cereal it was Millville Fruit & Nut Granola. It was good.
My "meal" was half a box(aka 2 ?) of saltine crackers. They are a generic brand from a grocery store chain, even though this chain has its own brand. They were ok. They were not crispy. I don't know if it because they are too old(I didn't check the exp date).
Mon: Like I said last week, there was a problem with my bank account. Somehow, some fucktard took out a debit card in my name and made a bunch of purchases. I went over to one of the branches to get it straightened out. While that was a pain, it was made even worse by the drive there. Quite a ways away from the road I exit off the interstate to, the traffic was backed up. The overpass is getting redone, and for some reason, the interstate underneath is reduced to 1 lane in each direction. Somehow that caused the backup that far back. If I had known that was what was going on, I would have exited a lot sooner, and took a different route. I ended up exiting off the road before the intended one, and used a frontage road to get to the bank. I think I was there for an hour. I think they were able to immediately reverse some of the charges. The rest will take a while.
For a snack, all I had was a bag of Clancy's hot funyuns. They were good. I think they were hot, but I hope you can forgive my lack of recall due to circumstances.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of frozen peas & carrots. I mentioned last week about the water situation and how I didn't refill the bottles. What I used instead was the "water" from cooking the pasta from my Fri meal. There was so much starch in the water, it ended up being goop. I did also use my spices and condiments. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
My meat item was a can of sardines from Dollar Tree. These were a brand called Pampa. I don't know if all DTs switched to this brand, or if it's just certain stores. They were in brine(aka plain). I guess they were ok. I don't think there was much difference between these and the Sunny Sea brand I've gotten at other DT locations.
Tue: I was having hunger pains, so I had a mouthful of the bacon pieces. I think it stopped the pains for a while.
My meal was basically the same as Mon. I used the rest of the pasta water goop. There was less than what I used the day before. My meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: My meal was package of Oscar Mayer hotdogs. I cooked them in e microwave. I had 4 on buns, and the other 4 "naked". I had all of them with mustard. I did an experiment. Instead of using raw onions. I cooked them in the microwave. I just wanted to soften them up and get rid of the harsh taste. I cooked them too long, because they shriveled up a bit. I also microwaved some cabbage. I don't think I tasted either on the hotdogs. The hotdogs were still good.
I also had a snack item. It was a bag of Doritos. They were the Flamin Hot Nacho flavor. I think I tasted the nacho flavor only with the first few chips or so. The heat was decent. They were ok. I don't think I'd buy them again. I was debating whether or not this was due to my hangup about cheese items. I think it was that their flavor wasn't to my liking.
I took a dump Thu night. It was orange, and kind of burned coming out. I think both were due to the Doritos.
Thu: At work, we had to go to this class/seminar about cybersecurity. It was supposed to be over at 11:45am, but ended up ending at noon due to waiting for everybody to get in. The main item of umbrage to me was that it was basically a repeat of the online training our department already did. The manager agreed with me the next day since she had done the online training on Wed. On top of that, it was time sheet day(yes Thu; the gov is fucked up regardless of who is in the White House). This meant I left work 15min later than I usually do. That caused me anxiety.
I got my snack at a grocery store. It's kind of a tradition for me to get something to snack on from the hot/deli section of this store. This time, it was a no-brainer for me, seeing as I felt I "needed" it. There were boneless wings on sale for $4.99lb. They had 2 kinds; bbq, and honey garlic. Since they were the same price, I had the lady fill up the box with mostly honey garlic, with a few bbq. When I had them at home, I heated them up in the microwave. They were ok.
I got my meal at Hardee's . There was an issue there. I think that extra 15min at work made a difference. There were a few people in the drive thru lane. They got higher priority than me. Also, another guy came in after me. He got his stuff before I did, but I think that was due to them having to freshly cook some things. Since we were waiting for so long, they gave us small drinks. I got Mello Yello. It wasn't good. You could say it was too mellow.
For the meal, their doing a promo with 3 sandwiches for $2.49 each(the guy after me got 1 of each). I got 2 of them. First was a Bacon Double Cheeseburger. It was decent. I don't recall tasting the bacon. Next was the Southern-Style Tender Sandwich. This is chicken. It was pretty good.
When I would drive past, I saw a sign on the window advertising a 2 for $5 fish sandwich deal. I picked up 2 of them. They were good. I think these were what they had to cook fresh, causing the guy after me to get his stuff first.
I also had 2 large orders of fries. They were ok. They probably tasted better fresh.
Fri: This day was shit, mostly due to work. There was so much to do, that I ended up leaving 30min later than normal. I usually skip my lunch break, so technically, I left at my "normal" time, but I worked 8.5 hours. I then went shopping and got gas. Then when I was exiting the interstate, some 'tard was crawling to the light, so I missed it. When the light turned green, I was able to get around them. I saw the light at the intersection turned red. I then went through the bank parking lot on the corner, intending to cut through. I was blocked by a bunch of people in line to use the drive thru teller and atm. I finally got through. I then zoomed down my street. Some scruffy guy walking a dog apparently took offense to my velocity, and lunged at my car. Fortunately, he didn't turn himself into a hood ornament. I guess I was given a sign that the day wasn't going to be good. When I went to turn off my alarm clock, or move my tv tray, the towel on my shoulders fell on the floor. I remember when it happened, I actually thought top my self that it could be a sign I was going to have a bad day.
I had a snack at 7:30 I won't review. I was going to have something else after I talked to my mom on the phone. I decided to wait until 11, even though I wasn't going to watch TMZ then. I dozed off, and woke up after 11. I then had a snack. It was sandwich I got at the grocery store the previous day(the other thing I got was the wings). It was on sale for $4.99. It was in a group of sub sandwiches called Pounder, presumably because it is supposed to weigh 1lb. I didn't measure it, but it looked rather long. I actually have a ruler sitting on a damaged tv tray, that I could have held the sandwich near and ,made a measurement. It didn't seem to have much taste. It could be due to one or both of the following things. Since I bought it Thu, I had it in the fridge. I can't remember how long I had it sit out to warm up. Like I said a few sentences ago, I ate right after I woke up. Maybe I was still too groggy to be able to taste stuff properly.
I kept on dozing off. I woke up at 3am. I set my alarm for 3:27am, and sat back down to nap some more. I then got up intending to watch TMZ. I think I dozed off again, and missed almost all of it. I waited until after 5am to have my microwave popcorn. I've pretty much said the same thing previous weeks. The only things different was that I didn't seem to see any pieces that looked close to burning, and I think there were only 2 or 3 unpopped kernels.
My meal was hotdogs. Like always, I had 4 on buns, 4 naked, and all with mustard. This time, I fried the onions and cabbage a bit. I then fried the hotdogs. Finally, I fried the buns in various configurations. They were all good. After I had the hotdogs on buns, there was a little bit of cabbage and onion left over for 1 or 2 of the naked hd.
I also had a snack item. it was a bag of store-brand kettle potato chips. They were Jalapeno & Cheddar flavor. They didn't taste like either. I think there was a little bit of heat. They were ok, but I don't think I'd buy them again.
Sat: Let me c/p a bit.
For snacks, I had a little bit of cereal. I opened up a new box, which I'll review one done. I also had a little bit of peanut butter. I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Zebra Cake Rolls: good Devil Creme: good
I finished the 2 things I got from the h/n/o store Fri. I had some dark chocolate covered raisins. They were ok. I also had some chocolate covered peanuts. They were good.
I forgot that I put a new package of cookies in the fridge, so I didn't have any. I'll have to open them next Sat. On Fri, I bought 3 things from the h/n/o store, which I'll also start on.
I also had a beverage. It was a bottle of Goya Ginger Beer. It is non-alcoholic. I don't know if it is non-alcoholic beer, or a soda like root beer. All I know is that when I first tried to buy it at the store, the lady at the hot/deli section said she couldn't do it there. I got it another time when I used a regular checkout lane. As for the taste, it didn't taste like beer, and didn't have that much other taste, to tell the truth. There was that burning in the back of my throat, which is actually common. I just read that ginger has a small amount of capsaicin, the chemical that give hot peppers their heat.
It is now after 11am. I did a bit too much fucking around. I took a dump a bit before 930pm last night, and one around 7am this morning. I now feel like I have another on deck, so I'll take care of that. I'll then have my meal, which I think will just be 2 items.
I think the water is getting better, so I might fill stuff up tonight, or a little later.
I guess that's all, so I should be back next week.
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Post by madmax on Apr 14, 2019 11:26:25 GMT -4
Hello. It's after 1230am. I got my reading done, so I'm going to try to get as much done before my pre Bones nap.
Thankfully, I was able to lay off the stress snacking this week.
I'll just get to the food now.
Sat: I just had 2 items. The snack item was a box of Keebler Town House Pita crackers. They were the Parmesan Cheese & Basil flavor. While they didn't taste like either, they were good. I think I had the sea salt flavor a while back, and didn't like those. My main item was 2 cans of Campbell's Chunky soup. They were the Sausage & Pepper Rigatoni variety. They were good.
I had 3 kinds of Chunky soup. It was a choice between the S&PR and one other one. I should have picked the other one, because the S&R gave me bad heartburn.
Sun: I had a bag of Pepperidge Farms Goldfish Pretzels. They were good.
For the meals this week, I started using water from a mustard container I had finished. I still have a bottle of mustard in the fridge, but didn't add any to the pan. I wanted to keep it for my meal "tonight".
Mon: I didn't have my customary snack at home. I think I was full from having some donuts at work.
My meal was fried rice and veggies. I used half a bag of peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: I did have a snack. I can't remember if it was due to stress, or if I couldn't take the hunger pains. It was a bag of Good Sense Sesame Oat Bran Sticks. They were good.
My meal was the same as Mon.
Wed: My meal was veggie fajitas using half a bag of peas & carrots. I used 1/2 cup(before cooking) of rice. I also used half a can of store-brand of chili beans that I mashed up. I used 5 flour tortillas, which I've mentioned previously about cooking/eating order. I had them plain, with pepper and/or hot sauce. Again, see previously for eating order. They were good.
Thu: I had a mouthful of bacon bits to try to suppress my hunger pains.
My meal was stuff from store hot/deli sections. I won't do a review of every item, but it was a story in itself in acquiring them. When I went to the first grocery store a few weeks ago, they had catfish and another kind of fish. I was hoping to get some of each. I called Wed after noon to see if they would be having it Thu. The person said they didn't think so. When I got there, there were some small pieces of catfish. I was debating whether to get them or get some at another store. They also had lasagna. I was debating how much I wanted. When I was waiting, I saw one of the ladies do something unsanitary, so I didn't get anything. I then went to a grocery store where I've only gotten stuff from the hot/deli section, and only a few times. Soon after I got there, I saw the lady there apparently do something unsanitary. I left. The next store was the one with catfish. They only had one piece left. It was a bit smaller than usual, but bigger than the first place's pieces. I also got a few other things. The next grocery store is part of the same chain as the first one. I visited this one because the chain was doing a 4-10pm sale, and I was at the first one before that. This store's hot section is tiny, so I didn't expect to see anything, and wasn't disappointed. I think the only thing I would have bought was Italian meatballs. The next store has a large hot section, with its own Chinese and Italian areas, but the Italian area only has pizza and calzone/stromboli. I didn't feel like getting any Chinese or Italian stuff. The other part didn't really have anything I wanted. There were what looked like short fat enchiladas. Apparently they were sitting out so long that the cheese on top had turned into a crust. My mind was made up when the lady behind the counter looked to do something unsanitary. My final stop was Walmart. I got some stuff there, then went home.
I have 2 things to mention. Except for the second grocery store and Walmart, I bought other food items for future use. The last grocery store I visited is part of another chain. There was another store in the chain near the first store I visited. I didn't visit it because I didn't feel like back tracking. If I didn't visit stores 2 and 3, I would have visited it since it was on a direct route to store 4.
For the meal, I heated up some of the food in the microwave. One of these things was mozzarella sticks from Walmart. Either I didn't cook these long enough, or they cooled off right away, since they weren't hot when I ate them, and thus weren't very good.
As for the taste, everything else wasn't bad. I can't necessarily say everything else was good because of something else. When I was eating, I got that problem where my nose stuffed up. I blew my nose, but shortly after, it stuffed up again. This went on and on, so I wasn't able to taste everything.
I didn't finish everything, so put the leftovers(except for the one snack item) in the fridge.
Fri: After work, I just visited a grocery store, and the h/n/o store.
At the grocery store, half gallon jugs of Hiland lemonade are on sale for $.99. I bought 2. This is because I was thirsty, and was drinking one on the drive home. It was ok. It didn't seem to have a strong taste. I almost drank the whole jug. I wouldn't have been surprised if I had gotten diarrhea, but that didn't happen. Also, I don't think I peed more than usual. I did feel kind of funny, which might be due to sugar overload, an/or possibly being over-hydrated. I was surprised that it made me feel full for a long time. I figured that since it was only liquid, it would leave my stomach quickly, and be absorbed by my intestines.
Feeling full affected my snacking. I didn't have my first snack until after midnight. One thing was from the store on Fri. I know their hot section has fish. They had some, so I got a piece, even though it's overpriced. Their Italian section has other stuff besides pizza, calzones/strombolli. If they had lasagna, stuffed shells, or manicotti, I would have gotten those, but don't remember if I still would have gotten the fish. I did heat the fish up in the microwave before I ate it. It was good. I also had a few of the leftover items from Thu. They were good.
I took a nap from around 230am-327am, to be awake for the rebroadcast of TMZ. I'm thinking I fell back asleep, because I can't remember watching it. I went back and forth between being awake and asleep. I had my second snack either around 6am or 7am. It wasn't microwave popcorn. It was the rest of the leftover stuff. This included 4 mozzarella sticks. I microwaved them for 1 min. I think they were sizzling when they were done. I recall them being hot, but they quickly cooled off. Maybe I should have cooked them even longer. The other items were good.
My meal was veggie fajitas again. It was almost identical to Wed, except that I added some tomato. I bought 3 roma tomatoes at the h/n/o store, and cut up 1 and half of another one. The meal was good.
Sat: I had sweet stuff to snack on. First, a little c/p: I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Zebra Cake Rolls: good Devil Creme: good
I also had 1/3 of a package of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the White Fudge Chunky variety. They were good.
I also had 3 items I bought at the h/n/o store on 4/3. They were chocolate almonds, chocolate pecans, and chocolate peanut clusters. They were all good.
I also had a beverage. It was a store-brand bottle of tonic water. I guess it was ok. There was some taste, but I couldn't give any kind of description. It's a 2 liter bottle, so I didn't finish it. I'll do so next week. The store-brand 2 liter bottles were on sale for $.50 a few weeks ago.
I'm done with the food for this week. After watching Bones and TMZ weekend show, I felt drowsy, and eventually dozed off. I also got sidetracked looking at stuff online. I took a dump, did something else, then took a nap before Meet The Press. I think I need to take another dump.
I think the sweet stuff I snacked on is giving me heartburn. I think leaning forward to type and look at the monitor is also exacerbating this.
I'll have my meal a bit later. It is now 1026am.
I'll be back next week. Besides the food post, I may have another one.
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Post by madmax on Apr 21, 2019 10:35:13 GMT -4
It's now 1215am when I am starting this. I would have started a bit sooner, but I got a bit delayed when having problems putting my house jackets on(I don't feel like explaining). According to zap2it, Bones isn't on due to some Brad Pit movie being on. It stars at 1am, so I'll see if that's the case. If so, I'll take my nap at 2, and get up before the TMZ weekend edition.
In my 4/3 post, I mentioned opening a can of Pampa sardines I bought at Dollar Tree. I opened a can this week. I had thought I had bought 3 cans. This was confirmed when I found all 3 empty cans. This means I forgot to mention me having can #2. I think I can safely assume I had it the previous week(4/8-4/12).
So lets eat!
First, it looks like I goofed up when making my notes. I think I fixed it, but I may not be 100% accurate.
Sat: I had a Eckrich Polska Kielbasa(aka Polish sausage). I cooked it in the microwave. I went by the instructions. It split open, even though I used the minimum time. Later, my mom said I should cook it less and/or use a lower power setting. Even with that, it was good plain and with mustard.
I had 3 things with it. I had 1.5 roma tomatoes that I cut up. I mixed them with black pepper. They were good. I had a can of generic brand red beans. They were good. I also had a package of Thai Sesame Noodles by Fusia from ALDI. They were good.
Sun: I finished up a jar of peanut butter. It was a store-brand Chunky. It was good. I opened up a new jar, which I'll review when done.
My meal was a box of Triscuits. They were the Avocado, Cilantro & Lime flavor. They were good, even though I don't think I could taste those 3 flavors.
Mon: I snacked on a mouthful of bacon pieces.
I snacked on 2 things. One was a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were good. I had put them in the fridge.
I have to mention something before I mention the other item. I got 2 envelopes in the mail regarding that stuff with the bank. One of the letters looked like it said I wouldn't be refunded for a lot of stuff. That made me pissed off and nervous.(I called the next day, and found out I misread it, and I was refunded).
The other item was a bag of Sun Puffs; from the company that does Sun Chips. These were the Four Cheese flavor. I didn't seem to like them. There seemed to be too much cheese taste. Due to my agitation, I couldn't fully "enjoy" these. If I was feeling better, I may have had a better opinion of these.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. It was good plain, and with my 3 items.
When I was eating, I knocked my bottle of hot sauce onto the floor. I think it didn't break because first, it wasn't very high up, and second, it bounced off the computer desk and then my shoes before hitting the floor. There was only a little left. When it fell, it flung out a lot of what was left somehow. I declared it empty, even though there are a few drops left. I think I'll use those in next Tue's meal. I opened up something new, which I'll discuss shortly.
Tue: My snack was a bag of veggie straws from the h/n/o store. They were good, but a bit salty.
I opened up a new "hot sauce". It was a jar of Stonemill Minced Chili with Garlic that I got at ALDI. It is more like a thick paste intended for adding to stuff, not as a condiment. It had an Asian flavor to it, and was good. There was a good amount of heat. They were on clearance for around $1. The people who make Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, make a version of this, which I've tried previously.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. The only things I added to the pan was the chili paste, and some water from a jar in the fridge that finally didn't have any flavor of the jar's original contents. Ironically, it was the HFF chili paste jar. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
My poop schedule has gone to mornings before leaving for work. I did so Wed morning. At work, when it was getting close to going home time, I started feeling pressure in my colon. I was farting a lot. I made it home. I didn't take a dump right away because I wanted to talk to my mom on the phone, and start my rice cooking. I was having farts just coming out without me releasing them. I finally got to the toilet. I took a MASSIVE dump. It made my top 10, if not top 5, biggest. I kind of burned coming out, so I'm thinking the chili paste caused me to poop.
Wed: My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of broccoli. I added all the spices.... to the pan except the aforementioned few drops of hot sauce. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
My meat item was a can of Pampa sardines. They tasted just like the previous 2 cans. For some reason, I was debating if they really tasted good or not.
Since I took that giant dump after work, I thought I would be emptied out, and wouldn't have to go Thu morning. I was wrong. Again, it burned coming out, so I blamed it on the chili paste. I decided to keep it in the fridge and not use it up. I'll use it when I'm constipated, so I can empty out.
Thu: At work, there was an Easter dinner. When they were cleaning up, I got a few things, including 2 big chicken thighs. I am only mentioning this because it influenced my later food choices.
For a snack, I went to Popeyes. I got one of those $5 shrimp meals(shrimp, biscuit, 1 side). I think the tv commercial called it a tackle box. The manager said the last day for this meal deal is today(Sun). The biscuit was good. My side was jambalaya. It was really good. It was spicy, but can't remember if there was any heat. The shrimp was good, but it seemed like there was less there than when I got the deal as a snack before.
For my meal, I got stuff at Arby's. They are doing the 2/$6 gyro deal. I'm surprised they didn't wait to start this on Mon and keep the 2/$5 fish sandwich deal until then. I got 4 gyros: 2 beef, 1 turkey, 1 traditional Greek. They were all good.
You may have noticed that I didn't get my customary 2 orders of onion rings. After the food at work, I didn't know how full I would be from that and the Popeyes stuff. When it was time to eat, I was actually having hunger pains. I decided to have a snack item with my gyros. It was a can of Pringles. It was one of the new Wavy varieties. It was the Classic Salted(aka plain). They were good, but a bit salty. There is less in the can than the regular shaped ones. I would instead recommend the plain Lays Stax because they are way less salty, and you can always get them for $1 each at Dollar Tree.
Fri: Again, I got filled up with stuff at work. There was left over dessert items. I had a sugar cookie, some non-chocolate Oreo pieces, and some red velvet cake. I also had 2 or 3 cups of strawberry soda, and 1 or 2 cups of water.
The day before, I visited the grocery store I didn't go to the week before. Their Italian section was like the one I did visit in that it was just basically pizza. I did go back on Thu, and it was the same. I was looking for lasagna, stuffed shells, or manicotti to put in the fridge and eat on Fri, but if I wasn't, I still would have gone, since I was looking for something else. On Fri, I went to the other store in that chain that I usually visit on Fris. This time, the part of the Italian section where there are pans of food was empty. I did find the other food I was looking for though.
I was thinking of visiting Taco Bell, but I had a bunch of other places to visit(see my next post if I get it done today).
My first snacks were around 11pm. I had a small package of Armour peperoni. It was good. My other item was a bag of Combos. It was the Honey Sriracha filled pretzels. They were good. There was a good amount of heat, which was a bit surprising.
I fell asleep later, and woke up at 3:31 am, so I missed the very beginning of TMZ. I didn't feel like having the popcorn until later. I think it was after 5am. It was the Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. The only thing different than previous times was I think there were like 7 unpopped kernels.
I opened up a new bottle of hot sauce. This time it was Texas Pete Hot Sauce. It didn't seem that hot.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of broccoli. I only added the hot sauce and unflavored water from the jar and some bottles. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Sat: I had sweet stuff to snack on. Again, a little c/p: I had 1 each of 3 Little Debbie items: Strawberry Shortcake Rolls: good Zebra Cake Rolls: good Devil Creme: good Those were the last of each item
I also had 1/3 of a package of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the White Fudge Chunky variety. They were good. If I had remembered to open them 2 weeks ago, they also would have been finished
I also had 3 items I bought at the h/n/o store on 4/3. They were chocolate almonds, chocolate pecans, and chocolate peanut clusters. They were all good.
I also had 2 beverages. One was the end of the bottle of tonic water. I guess it was ok. There was some taste, but I couldn't give any kind of description. The other was the little bit left of the Hiland lemonade. It was good.
I seem to be feeling a little off. I don't know if it's that I'm eating too much sugar, or if I'm drinking too much tonic water. I recall feeling a bit funny last week; when I started drinking the tonic water. It's done, so I won't have to worry about that anymore. I'm having a bit of a headache, which is a side effect of tonic water.
That's it for the food.
I'll have my meal later. I'm having 3 things. One completely new. One a different version I've had before, and something I've had before.
It is now 935am. I would have gotten done sooner, but I was feeling drowsy, then dozed off. I got distracted by looking at more YT train vids. I also took a large dump, then tried to take a nap.
I'll be having a different food schedule this week(dun dun dun).
After I post this, I'll start pretyping another post(dun dun dun). There's not much, so I hope I can get it done today.
See you when I see you.
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Post by madmax on Apr 21, 2019 12:51:38 GMT -4
On Fri, I did my pre-trip trip to the out of the way places North of the river.
The first was a thrift store. I think previously I told you that they moved to an old grocery store near the old place, and that is now their outlet(as-is?) store. I went to the outlet building there was a sign on the door saying they were closed Fri and Sat for Easter. I swear I saw people unloading stuff at the main store. I went over there, and the same sign was on the door. It could be that they just had a few people in the back to take donations.
I then went to the music store there. There was a sign on the door saying they moved. I remember the guy telling me that, and looking up where it is. I'm not looking to see if I posted that here.
I then went to the other thrift store. It was gone.
I then went to the music store's new location. There were 2 Casio keyboards. He didn't have the effects pedals set up yet. For amps, the Music Man head was there. It was sitting on a cabinet that I think was some low-volume/custom builder. Again, I don't feel like going back and checking. There was an Ampeg combo and a head/cabinet pairing. The head appears to be from the Portaflex line. There was an Egnater combo, and maybe a head/cabinet pairing. I might have seen some stuff from Orange. There was also a Peavey Special 112. For guitars, there were 3 Deans: a v, an explorer, and I think a superstrat. I remember seeing an Ibanez, which I think was from the Talman series. There was a telecaster with a brand with a script font logo that I couldn't read. There was also another mystery guitar. The headstock had the name of a pickup manufacturer. I thought it was FilterTron, but I don't see that as a guitar on Google. It wasn't DeArmond. It was an older name, so it wasn't Seymour Duncan.
The last stop was Guitar Center. The only guitar I noticed was a new Jackson Rhoads that had a woodgrain finish; some kind of "70's" model. I don't recall any guitars of note on the used wall. It could be the case that I looked and totally forgot, or didn't even pay attention. For amps, there was new stuff from Orange and the acoustic brand. There was a Music Man combo for over $400. There was a Trace Elliot cab with 2 speakers. There was a Marshall 3315 solid state head for $249. Looking online, it might not be a good amp. It was sitting on a 4x12 cab that wasn't a Marshall.
There was a floor pedal looping unit with the name HeadRush. I think it was a demo model. There were some Akai pedals with that name, but I don't think this is from Akai; so I don't know how they can use that name. There was a bunch of used pedals. The BOSS ME-80 and GT-1 multifx units were still there. There were also a BOSS DS-1, CH-1, and a delay(I'm thinking either a DD-2 or DD-3). There was a TC Electronic Skysurfer reverb. There was an MXR Carbon Copy delay. There was Arion Stereo Flanger. There was a Zoom pedal from the MultiStomp series; it might have been the MS-70CDR. There was also a Danelectro Trip L Wah with the leopard paint scheme.
That's all. It's getting close to noon, and I want to eat. Bye!
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Post by madmax on Apr 28, 2019 11:31:34 GMT -4
Hello. It is just after midnight. I finished my reading because SNL came on late due to an NHL playoff game goin to a 2nd ot. I would have started earlier, but I was doing some stuff, including getting some stuff ready for "tonight's" meal. I'll see how much I can get done before my pre-Bones nap.
Sat: The main item was something I picked up at ALDI. It was Specially Selected Mussels In Their Natural Juices. I cooked them according to the instructions. There were 2 microwave versions. I did the version where you poke holes in the top of the package, and set it on a plate in the microwave. They were good. The juice wasn't so much. If I had known these were good, I would have picked up 1 or 2 more varieties.
I had a can of generic brand unseasoned black beans. They were good.
My last item was a bag of TGI Friday's Onion Rings snack. It was the big bag, and they were good.
Sun: My meal was a box of Wheat Thins. They were the Cracked Pepper & Olive Oil variety. They were ok.
Mon: I had some doughnuts at work, so I didn't have a snack at home. I did have a mouthful of bacon pieces. I think it was close to when I was going to eat my meal.
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. One was a can of Chicken of the Sea Tuna in water. It was good. MY other snack was a bag of NY Bakery Texas Toast croutons. They were the Sea Salt & Pepper flavor. They were good. I could taste pepper. I could also taste salt, but they weren't salty.
My meal was the same as Mon.
Wed: I had 3 snacks. First was a chilidog. This was the first time I had one(I turned 45 last month). It was ok. I just mostly tasted the chili. I didn't warm it up, but I don't know if that would have affected the taste. I got it at the hot/deli section of a grocery store. I had the 2 other items later. The first was some pieces of catfish I got at the same place as the chilidog. I heated them up for 50 or 60 sec(30 + 20, or 30 + 30) at 50% power. They were warm. They were good. The other item was a bag of Mexican funyuns. They were good.
I also had a mouthful of bacon pieces. I don't remember when.
My meal was a Red Baron frozen pizza. It was the Brick Oven crust Sausage Supreme. There were 2 options for cooking them, both at 400F: 17-19min directly on the oven rack, or 21-23min on a baking sheet. I used a cookie sheet. I set the timer for 17min. After that had elapsed, I looked inside the oven, and the cheese was still white. I kept it for about another min. I looked again, and the cheese was browned around the edge. It was ok. I seems to recall that it cooled off very quickly.
I took Thu off for a doctor's appointment. I took Fri off too. On Thu, I was hoping to have dinner with my parents. My mom decided she didn't want to, even though I wanted something simple that could mostly be made days in advance. I had to change my plans and come up with another meal.
Thu: I tried a beverage. It was club soda. My parents bought a 2 liter bottle to add to the pancake batter at their church's Easter breakfast. I told my mom if there was any left over to bring it home so I could try it. I had read beforehand that it has a minerally taste. That was the case here, and I didn't like it. I looked at the ingredients list, and it said salt.
I was going to get a snack at Burger King. I spent a lot of time and the bank, still with that debit card issue. I found out that the company that does the debit cards fucked up and issued some other person a debit card and tied to my account instead. After doing that, paying my AT&T bill, and doing some shopping, it was really late, so I skipped that, and went over to my parents house.
After I left their house, I got 3 things at Walmart to snack on at my house. I had some General Tso's chicken. It was good. I had some jalapeno poppers. They were good. I had some mozzarella sticks. They were ok. I did a bunch of stuff when I got home, so I didn't eat them right away. They would have tasted better if hot.
My meal was what I had originally planned for Fri. I had 4 things.
I had a box of Chicken in a Biskit crackers. They were good.
I had a can of Great Value white hominy. It was good.
I made a package of sausage that I bought at ALDI. They were the Never Any brand. They were the Tomato & Basil flavor. They were ok.
The last item was 2 cans of Progresso soup. They were the Tomato Basil variety. It tasted way better than plain tomato soup. The basil provided flavor that might have been slightly spicy. I also tried it with other stuff mixed in: black pepper: slight difference in taste cumin: no difference chili powder: no difference mustard: slight difference but mostly added a vinegary taste hot sauce: slight difference and added heat soy sauce: not good canola oil: no difference
Fri: When I was out driving(see a future post), I went to Burger King to get a driving snack. I got an Angry Whopper. I had one a while back, but didn't have it right away, so it cooled off, which could have affected the (spicy) heat level. While it was good, it didn't seem hot to me. The only "Angry" aspects of it were that it cost me a lot of money. Also, it angered my colon, because I had to rush to the shitter early(around 6am) Sat morning, then shoot out some liquid a few hours later.
When I was waiting for the Whopper, the later gave me a small cup for a free drink. I looked at the choices for something I haven't had before. I picked a soda called Surge. It was good. When I looked at Google, I saw that it had been discontinued, but is now only sold at BK.
I was intending to get the Angry Whopper on Thu, but it was getting late. If I had done so, I would have got on Fri 1 or 2 orders of the hot chicken nuggets.
I may have had a mouthful of bacon pieces to stop my hunger pains, but I can't remember.
The meal is one I had to come up with due to not eating with my parents on Thu.
Let me discuss my meal a little differently. I had sandwiches. Let me list the ingredients first.
2 20oz loaves of Italian bread 1 package of Honeysuckle White Italian sausage(5 sausages) 1 24oz can of Hunt's Zesty & Spicy Pasta Sauce 1 8oz block of Kraft mozzarella cheese 1 8oz container of mushrooms Parmesan cheese
I need to talk about the loaves of bread. The one grocery chain had them on sale for $1 each. When I went to the store, I saw they were short and skinny. I didn't think that I could get everything on one loaf. I then thought back to when I made 2 sandwiches before(see my 12/3/17 post), and how I couldn't finish both of them. I figured this time, I was using less stuff. I also mistakenly thought that I bought the loaves from the same grocery store chain the last time. Looking at my post from 2017 jogged my memory in that I got the loves from the other grocery chain. When I got a loaf from this other chain to make my BLT, I noticed it was wider and longer, even though it was only 16oz.
Now back to the "Fri" meal.
I cut up the cheese and mushrooms ahead of time.
I put some canola oil in the cast iron pan, and set the burner to 4. After a bit, I put the sausages in. I would turn them every so often so the would cook/brown on all sides. For some reason, the casings on some of them split on the ends, causing the sausage to bulge out.
While the sausages were cooking, I cut the loaves open. I also put the sauce in the pot, and tuned the burner to around 2.
When I felt the sausages were done, I took the out of the pan and put them on the plate.
I then put the mushrooms in the pan and stirred them around. After they shrunk down, I turned the burner off, since the pan retains heat. When I felt the mushrooms were cooked enough, I took the pan off the burner.
I put the burner for the sauce low because I thought it wouldn't take long to heat up. It wasn't really warm, so I turned it up to 5.
While the sauce was cooking, I cut a "bulge" off one of the sausages and ate it. It was good. I cut all the sausages in half lengthwise. I also cut one of them in half crosswise.
When the sauce was finally done, I put some on the bottom half of the loaves. I then put on some of the mushrooms. Then was the sausages. Then was the rest of the mushrooms. Next was the cheese. Finally I shook on some Parmesan cheese. Before I put the top half of each loaf on, I put on most of the rest of the pasta sauce.
When I was eating, I put the rest of the sauce on bites I was taking. I was also adding some more Parmesan cheese.
As for the taste, it was ok. I seemed to taste more of the bread and sauce than sausage. I don't think I really tasted the mushrooms, and I didn't taste the cheese at all.
I was able to eat 1 whole sandwich, and about 75-80% of the other one. I put the rest in the fridge. Depending on how I feel tonight, I may have the leftover for my Sun meal.
Since I was reading a long series of posts about instruments used in progressive music, I got a real late start. I don't think I got done eating until close to 2pm Sat.
If I had known how everything turned out, I would have had a different meal. I would have waited until the loves from the other grocery chain were on sale and made a sandwich of 1 of them.
That is it for now. I'm starting to feel hunger pains, so I'll have my meal soon. I think I'll try to take a dump first.
It is 1031am. If I had known I'd seen that episode of Bones before, I maybe would have took a longer nap. A little later I was feeling a bit groggy, and didn't get any typing done. I then went to work to do some stuff. When I got home, I took another nap, then did some reading. I wanted to start pretyping another post, but I need to do my laundry later. I also need to pick up branches(and a heavy limb) in my yard, and do some dishes. Depending on when I get my reading done for today, I might start pretyping later tonight.
I should be back next week.
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Post by madmax on May 5, 2019 10:16:11 GMT -4
It is time again. I guess I can get to the food.
Sat: This meal was simple. I had a bag of Clancy's wavy potato chips.. It was a big bag, 15.25oz. They were good. I had them with a 16oz container of Dean's Dip. They were on sale for $1. At the store I went to, they were out of the French Onion, so I got the Ranch instead. It was good.
My meat item was 7 cans of Brookdale Vienna sausages. I wanted to see how many I could eat. Since they taste better cold, I wanted to keep them so throughout the meal. I took my casserole dish and put some water in it. I then put it in the freezer. I also made a tray of ice. When it was time to eat, I took the dish out of the freezer. I took the cans out of the fridge and put them in the dish. I then put the ice cubes on top of the cans.
As for the taste, they originally tasted good, but got less so the more I ate. Also, from being on ice, they eventually got too cold, which may have also affected the taste.
I finished all the dip. I ate all but a large handful's worth of small pieces from the potato chips. I had 8 cans of V sausages, but only ate 7.
The takeaway from this this meal is that Vienna sausages are a food item that only tastes good in small amounts.
Sun: Since my "Sat" meal was big, I was not very hungry. I wanted something small, but didn't have any of the 6oz bags of PF Goldfish. I had a bag of Good Sense Sesame Oat Bran Sticks. It was good.
Mon: I had a snack, which I'll skip.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using half a bag of peas & carrots. If you recall 2 weeks ago, I didn't finish up the Stonemill chili paste; I was going to use it if I was constipated. I was having problems. I don't think I went Mon, and I think I did tiny dumps Sat and Sun. I used the chili paste in the pan. The meal was good plain, with my 3 items, and the rest of the chili paste. Unfortunately, the chili paste didn't work. I don't think I had a large dump until Thu after work.
Tue: For a snack, I had the rest of my sandwich from Fri's meal. I cut a piece of it and put it in the microwave to heat up. It was good; so good in fact that I heated up the other piece in the microwave and ate it. I originally had intended to only eat the fist piece.
My meal was fried rice and veggies with peas & carrots. It was good plain and with my 3 items.
Wed: I had 2 mouthfuls of the store-brand bacon pieces, but not together.
My meal was fried rice and veggies. This time I used half a bag of that is called California Blend, which is broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
After this meal, I ran out of canola oil. A few weeks back, a grocery chain had a sale on various varieties of generic-brand vegetable oil. I bought a bottle of canola, which was the one I finished. I also bought a bottle of corn oil. That is the one I opened on Thu. It doesn't really taste good by itself. I used it with my Thu and Fri meals, and will use it until it is gone.
Thu: One grocery chain is having a sale on jalapeno pepper for $1/lb. I bought a bunch. I went home and dropped them off and called my mom. I then went back out to get my main snack, and do a few other things. I took one pepper to eat as a driving snack. I started eating it after I bought my main snack. It wasn't good. There was ZERO heat. It basically tasted like a raw green pepper, which I don't like(I LOVE cooked green peppers).
I got my snack at Popeyes. They are having a box meal deal called Cajun Sparkle Boneless Wings & Tots for $5. I got one. It is boneless wings, tator tots, and a biscuit. The Cajun Sparkle is some spice blend they put on the tator tots and chicken. The biscuit was good. The tator tots were good. They seemed to have a slightly different flavor, which wasn't strong. The chicken was good. I think there was a different taste; although I do know there was some heat.
Later, I had another snack. It was a bag of Kettle Brand potato chips. They were the Sour Cream And Onion flavor. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies using the other half of the bag of California Blend. It was good plain and with my 3 items. As for the corn oil, it didn't change the flavor. It might have left more in the pan after I ate all the food, but I could have also used more.
Fri: The snacking is a bit complicated. I was still wanting to get some manicotti/lasagna/stuffed shells due to not getting them that Thu a few weeks back. I stopped at the one grocery store I did 2 weeks ago. This time, the pans were there, but one was filled with spaghetti &meatballs, and I think the other one had breadsticks.
I then stopped at Burger King. Last week I stopped at the one near me to get the Angry Whopper. When I was there, I saw on the menu board there were tacos. They were 2 for $1.99. I had asked the lady if that was a limited time and/or location item. She said no to both. When I went into this BK, I asked the girl there about tacos. She said what sounded like they didn't have them anymore. I was contemplating getting the spicy chicken nuggets, but I decided to leave.
I then went to yet another grocery store in the chain as the first one. They did have lasagna. I got a big piece. I was either overcharged, or it's mega overpriced. When I had it, I warmed it up in the microwave. It was good.
If I had gotten something at the first grocery store, I would have still gone to BK and got the tacos if they had them. As there was nothing there, and if Bk had the tacos, I would have gotten them. Although, I'm not 100% sure if I would have stopped to get the lasagna.
I got up for 330am to watch the rebroadcast of TMZ. I made my bag of Pop Weaver microwave popcorn. It was the last bag in the box. If I didn't mention it before, it was the Extra Butter variety. I cooked it for 1:36. I added the corn oil to it. It was good. It didn't taste any different with the corn oil. I think there were more than 5 unpopped kernels.
My meal was another experiment. I cooked half a bag of rotini. When it was done, I added some corn oil. I then added an 8oz package of mushrooms that I had cut up. I then added a can of black olives that I had cut up. After stirring everything together, I put the lid on the pot, and went to do something for a while, letting the mushrooms warm up/cook from the heat of the rotini.
As for the taste, it was good. I was able to taste the mushrooms, but I don't think I really tasted the olives. The corn oil didn't affect the taste. Besides having it plain, I tried it with my 3 items, and parmesan cheese. The black pepper and parmesan were good. The hot sauce wasn't good. The soy sauce wasn't good, but wasn't bad; more that it tasted funny. I also tried combinations of all these items, but I didn't make any electronic and/or mental notes of these.
My meat item was a can of Crown Prince sardines in tomato sauce. They were good. When I opened the can, I got it all the first time, so didn't have to use the ancient one.
Sat: I had sweet stuff to snack on. First, I had a tiny bit of cereal. Then I finished up a jar(about a tablespoon or less worth) of peanut butter. It was a store-brand creamy with honey. It was good. I'll open up another jar before I have my Sun "meal".
Let me again c/p.
I had 1/3 of a package of Chips Ahoy cookies. They were the White Fudge Chunky variety. They were good. That was the last of them.
I also had 3 items I bought at the h/n/o store on 4/3. They were chocolate almonds, chocolate pecans, and chocolate peanut clusters. They were all good.
I also had a new item. It was some yogurt covered raisins. They were good. Even so, I don't think I'll buy them again. I only did so because they were on sale for $2.99/lb.
The last item was some Whoppers Robin Eggs. They were good.
The day after Easter, my mom went to a grocery store and bought a bunch of bags of Easter candy that was marked way down(1/2 price?). That included the Robin Eggs. Unfortunately, there were no Hershey's Carrot Cake Kisses. Last year there were, but she only bought 1 bag. I'll be having this candy for a while. If I don't pig out on it, it may even last me close to Halloween, when she will get some more.
That's it for now. I will have my meal later. It will be 2 things I've never cooked before. I've had the meat item for years(probably close to 40), and the other item I've had a few times.
It is now 916am. I would have been done earlier, but my reading took me almost to 1am. After I got up, I watched the KC Virtual Railfan livestream on YT while Bones was on. A bit after 6am, I took a large dump. I then went to lay down and eventually nap after 730am. I then did some reading from a bit after 830-9.
I think I need to poop again, because it feels like there is some more ready to go.
I will start pretyping something else, and hopefully post.
See you later or next week.
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Post by madmax on May 5, 2019 11:55:12 GMT -4
On 4/25, I went to the thrift stores in my former town. I also visited the antique store. I visited Goodwill and the cat charity store last, but they had nothing, so I won't mention them anymore.
At the first thrift store, there were 2 Rolls Four Zone Mixers for $100 each. After a Google search, I think the model is RM64. Also, they are for a professional pa setup instead of for musical purposes.
Next is the thrift store where I know the manager. For non music/electronic stuff, there were 3 swords in the front counter case. One was medieval style, and the others were samurai type. In the toy area, there was a tine Disney princess keyboard. There was also a Thomas organ. It was a Californian 261 model. It was working and plugged in. I tried to play the intro for UH's Stealin. Also, I was trying to play part of the into(after the churchy part) of Led Zeppelin's Your Time Is Gonna Come.
Then I went to Savers. I'll mention the case items first, even though I looked at them last. There was a trombone. There was also a case that looked to be for an instrument. It was very short, so it may have been a bugle.
For electronic stuff, there was a Radio Shack MD-501 for $14.99. There was some Wurlitzer organ for $89.99. There was also a Baldwin MCX 2000 for $59.99. Apparently, it looks "modern", but it doesn't have editable sounds.
Finally the antique store. There were a bunch of old diagnostic devices. There were also bunch of(probably dead) vacuum tubes, and I think some old equipment that used them. The only actual items of interest to me were some Atari 2600 games. If I had mine set up, I would have looked through them all, and maybe bought a few.
That's all. I got sidetracked looking at news articles on Yahoo. I didn't pay attention to Meet The Press. Also, I could have started pretyping the more important post. Actually, I may do that while I'm waiting for my food to cook after I try top take another dump.
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Post by madmax on May 12, 2019 12:13:29 GMT -4
Hello again. This week turned out shitty, but turned around on Thu. Getting a promotion can do that. Like before, I've been trying to reduce my food intake. I kicked things up due to stress eating, then in a celebratory fashion.
With that out of the way, it is food time.
Sat: Let me mention the side dish first. It was a box of Zatarains Beans & Rice. It was good.
The meat item was a ham. It was a Hormel Cure 81. it was 1.6555lb. I cooked it according to instructions on the wrapper. When it was done, I set it in the microwave to keep warm. When I took the foil off, the ham smelled like it was overcooked. It tasted good plain.
Besides plain, I also had the ham with 3 different kinds of mustard.
The main mustard was just your basic yellow mustard. I'm not getting up to look where it is from. It was good.
I finally finished up the last of the Deutsche Kuche Austrian Beer Mustard that I opened a long time ago. It was ok.
The last mustard was something new I opened up. It was from Old Style Mustards. It was the Horseradish variety. It was ok. Even though it is supposed to be horseradish, I recall there being little to no heat.
Sun: I had half a box of saltines. They were good even though they were not crispy. I don't know if that was due to age, or they are low quality.
For this week, I opened a new bottle of hot sauce. It is the Crystal brand. I think I read that it is almost as popular in Louisiana as Tabasco, and WAAAAY cheaper. It wasn't very hot.
Also for this week, I opened up a box of store-brand shredded wheat. Every day(M-F), I had it both plain and with corn oil. It was ok.
Mon: I had a Maruchan Instant Lunch. It was an Udon Style Soy Sauce Flavor. It was good.
Later, I had a bag of Flamin Hot Cheetos. They were good.
My meal was fried rice and veggies. I used half a bag of peas & carrots. I only added 3 things to the pan. The hot sauce, some starch goop from cooking the pasta the Fri before, and some water from bottles where it didn't have any taste of the previous contents. The meal was good plain and with my 3 items.
Tue: my meal was fried rice and veggies with half a bag of peas & carrots. I went back to adding everything else. I also added a new ingredient. It was jalapeno peppers. I think I only used 2. I chopped them up. I added the first one when I put the peas & carrots in the pan. I think I added the second one when I added the second round of spices.... The meal was good plain and with my 3 items. I can't recall if I tasted the jalapenos, but I seem to remember there not being any extra heat.
Wed: My first snack was a can of Brookdale Vienna sausages. They were ok. I had them in the fridge since the weekend after Easter. Even though they were in there that long, I don't think the liquid solidified at all(I think that was also the case with the other 7 cans I ate). think I am still burned out from my meal of those other 7 cans.
Later, I had a bag of store-brand veggie straws from the h/n/o store. They were good, but seemed a bit salty. I think I noticed this with some recent bags I've had previously.
For my meal, I made my veggie fajitas. I used 1/2 cup(before cooking) of rice. I used half a bag of peas & carrots. I used half a can of store-brand chili beans that I smashed up when I put them in the pan. I also used 3 jalapenos that I cut up. I'm pretty sure I added 2, then 1, with the first 2 added with the peas & carrots, and the third when I added the beans. I had the stuff on 5 flour tortillas. See previous posts about cooking and eating order. They were good plain, and with hot sauce and/or black pepper; see previous posts about eating order. My assessment of the jalapenos I guess would match that of the previous day.
Thu: I visited a Burger King. They had the tacos, so I got an order(2 for $1.99). They gave me 2 packets of taco sauce and 2 packets of picante sauce. I used a taco sauce on one, and a picante on the other. Both tacos were good. I would get them again.
Later, I had a bag of Clancy's pork rinds. They were the Hot & Spicy variety. This time the seemed to be neither. The crumbs/powder at the bottom of the bag was a little bit spicy. The other time I had them, there was cumulative heat.
I got my meal at Little Caesars. I went there after BK. I missed the cross street where LC is located, so I went all the way out to the interstate, and exited off the next road, then turned onto the cross street when I got to it. I had intended to get a 5 Meat Feast. It is advertised as one of the Hot-N-Ready pizzas. When I got there, the girl said they didn't have any. It almost sounded like she said they weren't part of the HNR promotion, but they could have just been out. She said I would wait 8 min for one, which I didn't want to do. I asked what else they had. She told me something which I forgot. She said it had more cheese and peperoni than the regular. I think it was an ExtraMostBestest. I got that one. When I wanted to eat it, I put it in the oven, which I preheated to 300F. I had it in there a bit over 10 min. It was very warm when I took it out of the oven. It was good, both plain and with parmesan cheese. The only negative was that it cooled off quickly. I don't know if it would have helped if I kept it in the oven longer and/or had a higher temp.
Fri: I have a story about snacks. I went to the grocery store I usually visit on Fri. I got some of the stuff I had on my list. When I went past the Chinese hot section, there was a sign saying eggrolls and crab rangoons were 3 for 2.99. Since I wanted to check the other relatively nearby store in the chain for the stuff I didn't get, I didn't get the Chinese stuff since I was thinking they might have the same deal.
I then went to a grocery store in the other major area chain(I used to get stuff in the hot section here a lot on Fridays when I lived with my parents). There were sub sandwiches on sale for $2.99. When I looked at them, they seemed tiny for the price. I looked in the hot section. There were big pieces of swai for $1.99 each. There were smaller pieces of cod for $2.34 each. There was also deep fried shrimp. I didn't feel in the mood for fish, even though I love it. I would have gotten some shrimp, but the breading/coating was too light colored; as if it hadn't been cooked long enough. If I was still living with my parents, and was getting my meal, I would have gotten all 3 things.
I then went to that other store in the chain. They didn't have anything on my list. I then went over to the Chinese section of the hot area. They had eggrolls and cr for $1 each. A fat lady had gotten all the cr. The worker told me there would be some more coming out. While I was waiting, I saw the worker do something that looked unsanitary, so I left.
For a snack, I had 2 things. One was a bag of the Mexican funyuns. They were old, so they weren't crispy. They still tasted good though. They other item was a frozen sandwich from a brand called Fast Bites. It was the BBQ Rib Sandwich. I was hoping it would be like a McRib. It wasn't. It was ok though. The BBQ sauce had a different taste. There was no pickles and/or onions. The meat itself was firm; part of it was almost crisp, like it was either overcooked, or a crappy piece of meat. The sandwich was also very small; I'm guessing a bit bigger than a White Castle, though I've never seen one in person. I wouldn't buy it again, though I'm not giving it a negative review.
I was going to snack on something a few hours later, but I kept on falling asleep.
I did watch the 330am rebroadcast of TMZ, but I had my microwave popcorn afterward. It was the Pop Weaver brand. I opened up a new box. It was the Butter flavor. The box I had before was the Extra Butter. I actually never mentioned this for some reason. I cooked it for 1:36. There were NO burnt, or close to burnt, pieces. I wonder if the extra "butter" in that version causes it to burn easier. There were only 9 unpopped kernels. I DID NOT add any corn oil. It was good.
When I was out, I bought a bunch(as in small bundle, NOT a lot) of cilantro at the h/n/o store. I ate a leaf when I was in the parking lot. It tasted just like the hari chutney you get from an Indian restaurant.
When I was cooking my meal, I had the crumbs from the shredded wheat with corn oil. I also finished the packet of bacon pieces.
My meal was veggie fajitas like Wed. This time I used only 2 jalapeno peppers when I was cooking. When I added the second, I added some cilantro stems(and a few leaves that snuck in) that I chopped up. I had 1 jalapeno left, so I chopped it up. I also chopped up the leaves(and stems, since I didn't stand there and separate them) from the cilantro I had chopped the stems of. I had these things with my meal instead of pepper and hot sauce. I used 5 flour tortillas(so on and so forth). I put the jalapenos on the first tortilla. It was good. I put cilantro on the second one. It was good. I put both on the third. It was good. There was only a little of both left, so for the fourth. I put the jalapenos on 1/3, and put the cilantro on the other 2/3. It was good. The last tortilla was plain. It was good. There was still some mixture left over, so I just ate it out of the pan. I didn't taste the jalapenos, but I did taste the cilantro. There wasn't a lot in there, since it was almost all stems, so the taste wasn't strong. The jalapenos weren't hot, though I did have heat on my lips after eating a raw piece. I'm guessing some seeds touched my lips.
Sat: I snacked on stuff. I had the 4 items I bought at the h/n/o store: chocolate almonds, chocolate pecans, chocolate peanut clusters, yogurt covered raisins. They were all good.
I also had some of the Robin Eggs. They were good
I also had some new cookies. They were the Keebler Whoopsy! Fudge Stripe Fully Fudged Fudge Mint. I put them in the fridge. I had 5, which is 1 section(of 4) of the tray. They were good.
It is now 1113am. I started pretyping a bit after 2am. I god sidetracked a bit. I dozed off twice between 4 and 5am, and maybe after that. I took a large dump close to 730, then tried to take a nap after that, even though I don't think I fell asleep.
Even though I took a large dump earlier, it feels like I have some more. If I was going to work, I would ignore it, and hope it didn't want to get out while I am at work.
I will eat in a little bit. I don't have any cooking to do. I'll have 5 things, but maybe only review 3.
See you next week.
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