French Toast and Existentialism

So, how does food affect your life?

2012-07-28T03:23:00.000-07:00

When I was growing up, my mom noticed my sister and I reacted poorly to artificial sweeteners and colors; this was the single best thing she ever did, in addition to stripping our diets to avoid those particular things. Consequently, we grew up not eating a lot of high-fructose corn syrup, saccharine, phenylalanine, or any of those red/yellow dye thingies. By reacting poorly, I mean to say that my sister would run in circles until she fell down and I would get mean, grouchy, and depressed to an extreme rather uncommon to a 5 year old female child. Because most sugary foods also contained some other unnatural ingredient, we didn't eat a lot of sugary foods either.... at least not until I was in my late teens...

After 4 long years of unhappiness, mood swings, angry depression, sinus problems, and general excremental system discomfort, a friend who studied eastern medicine recommended I go on a candida diet. This means stripping sugars and fast-burning carbs to avoid exacerbating the normal yeast humans have in their gastrointestinal system. I played with this diet, and ultimately 'failed' at it for years. But I learned a lot about how food can produce adverse reactions to your system, and not all are noticeable within the same day of consumption -- and that's the big part...

If you truly want to experiment on yourself to know how you react to a diet or to a particular item of food, you need to monitor over at least 4 days after 'exposure.' The effects of excessive sugar-eating for one day can result in up to 3 days of withdrawal, culminating in severe moodiness on the 2nd and 3rd day. AND these are not simple cranky moods... these are fits of mood and depression that I've seen other people also do on a regular basis, and that can go on for days and weeks -- imagine if they had the presence of mind to know that it was all a reaction their body was having to something they ate a couple days ago.

So, how do I avoid sugar? I eat hardy, whole-grain breads with no added sugars, and less ripened fruits and vegetables with less natural sugar: berries, mangoes, avocados, zucchini, eggplant, greener bananas, red/purple potatoes, yams. I also need to (and am diversifying my diet enough to allow it) eat more raw veggies and nut-based meals with some good probiotics that will keep the yeast at bay.

Atop the Naan, recipe I

2012-07-28T03:21:00.000-07:00

1 lb sunflower seeds (no salt, no shells)
¼ c cucumber, diced
½ c eggplant, diced
¼ c bell pepper, diced
¼ c onion, diced
2 cloves garlic
2 tsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp olive oil
1-2 Tbsp Bragg's
½ lb sharp cheddar cheese (or any cheese)
several naan bread

Soak sunflower seeds for 6 hours, then strain. Combine seeds, cucumber, eggplant, bell pepper, onion, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, and Bragg's in food processor and pulse until well ground. Heat skillet to medium heat, add ground seed mixture to pan and lightly brown. Meanwhile in (toaster) oven, toast naan covered with sliced cheese. Once cheese is just softened, remove and top with seed mix. Serve hot

Importance of Vegetables

2012-07-08T15:35:00.002-07:00

I would generally consider myself the last person on earth to advocate eating a large percentage of vegetables... I don't subscribe to vegan or vegetarian lifestyles -- bacon doesn't grow on trees -- but from what I've learned on my own about food, my own personal trial and error, and the basics of how food affects your mental and physical state that I was taught growing up, I have a lot to say when it comes to the eating of vegetables.
There are a few things that need to be said first about 'Vegetables'

corn is not a vegetable - it is a grain, a grass, and from what I've seen in myself and animals, causes a whole lot of avoidable digestive problems (if you've noticed it often comes out whole... this is not a good thing)
Tomatoes, zucchini, squash, eggplant, avocados, etc are also not vegetables. They are very good fruits, but are not to be confused with what vegetables really are
Legumes and lentils are additionally not really vegetables, but I'll have a separate blog on them later, cuz they're complicated in the guise of the types of toxins they produce (seeds). For my purpose here, I will concede that the pod is veggie, and unquestionable if ingested before the seeds develop (I have a life-long hatred of legumes, as well as the filthy dirt-legumes known as peanuts)
Vegetables are the leaves, roots, stems, and maybe even buds of plants - the following are only a few of oh, so many

spinach, chard, arugula, cabbage, lettuce, dandelion, water cress, sprouts, herbs
yams, tubers, carrots, beets, radishes, parsnips, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots
rhubarb, celery, asparagus, bamboo
broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, capers, brussels sprouts

Veggie need-to-knows:

50-80% of a human daily diet should be a RAW form of fruit and vegetable -- these contain micro-nutrients that a human body needs in order to repair and defend itself, and generally be healthy

the more ripe the fruit/vegetable the higher the glycemic index (more sugars) and the lower the nutrient and enzyme content

simply adding dark green vegetables to any diet (eating habit) can go a long way to improving health, metabolism and weight loss - and i don't mean a little... i mean like a cup of broccoli every meal...

pasteurizing, though a saver of many lives in the pre-refrigeration age, kills necessary enzymes and breaks down nutrients

most grocery store (aka non-organic, commercial farm-grown) vegetables are grown with fertilizers containing mostly only potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen... at the very least you should be getting calcium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum and zinc - not to mention the 30+ other nutrients a human body needs

any vegetable is better than none - if you have to cook it, steam it, bake it, frappé it, juice it, and all you have is the corner grocery: take it and run with it. Getting used to eating veggies is the first hurdle, experimentation is the second

if you can keep the temp under 120°F or better yet 105°F, that's generally considered to be raw enough to not break down vital nutrients... but it's enough to warm up a raw veggie-frappé soup

heat destroys vitamin C -- C is one of the vitamins that do so many things to support health in the body, but is also on of the most easily deficient... IT IS READILY AVAILABLE IN RAW FRUITS & VEGGIES... GET IT IN YOU! they say too much causes kidney stones, but there is not a single medical study that proves it does; it was used extensively in studies in the early 1900's to cure viral illnesses, and is currently being used outside of English-speaking countries as a part of nutritional therapy to let the body heal itself of cancer and other ailments -- with no side-effects

** I am not a medical doctor, nor am I stating that vitamin C cures cancer**
*** image above obtained from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9gumes_01.jpg***

Basic Knife Skills

2012-07-03T08:33:00.002-07:00

Dani Spies offers awesome starter tips for those new to cutting up veggies
Good Housekeeping also offers several videos breaking down techniques such as mincing, dicing, and quick methods of chopping

Raw Veggies II : Zucchini

2012-07-02T17:37:00.004-07:00

1-2 of your favorite kind of zucchini, sliced
1 lemon, juiced
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbsp olive oil

Throw it all in a bowl and toss
stays fresh in the fridge, covered, for a week

Zucchini Rolls

1 zucchini
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 clove garlic (or other aromatic)
fresh basil
fresh arrugula

Slice zucc lengthwise into strips, soak in lemon juice/oil/garlic.... [they say dehydrate, I think it's overrated]... just roll with basil and arugula and serve al fresco

Simple Naan

2012-07-02T09:10:00.003-07:00

2.5- 3 cups flour (use gluten free if you like, and I like to add flax seed or flax seed meal)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
tumeric or herbs of choice (optional)
1 cup plain yogurt
1 Tbsp safflower oil

Sift together dry ingredients. Add yogurt and mix until doughy. Add more flour by Tbsp until dough just stops being sticky-wet, and knead, knead and knead. Form into round ball, place in a bowl, drizzle oil on top, cover with a towel and rest for 1 hour. Remove dough from bowl, separate into 8 sections. Roll each section flat (can stack using parchment or wax paper to separate). Heat 10" non-stick skillet to med, and turn oven to broiler setting, or heat broiler to 500°F. Gently place one piece into skillet - cook until bottom has brown spots, remove from pan, place on foil in broiler and brown for ~2 min (make sure rack is low and away from heat source). Once you see spots (as above) remove from broiler - repeat for each piece.

The thinner the dough is rolled, the crispier it will be (I like it crispy; it's easier to eat like a pizza)

Now that you've got naan... what do you do with it?
- substitute for tortillas or pita
- used for chips
- covered in homemade minced raw veggie mixes and cheese (recipes posted soon)
- Rachael Ray has an awesome Naan-cho recipe

Stuffed Squash

2012-06-29T21:32:00.002-07:00

1 acorn squash
spinach
Gorgonzola - or sharp cheese of your choice

- cut squash half on the equator - cut off point at the bottom so the bottom half will sit flat
- roast in oven at 400°F until just tender (20-40 min depending on size)
- fill with spinach and cheese
- return to oven until spinach is tender and cheese is melted
- add bacon ;)

Veggie Pizza

2012-06-29T21:19:00.003-07:00

large tortilla
favorite spaghetti sauce (I prefer Classico)
mozzarella
spinach
kalamata olives, halved
1 clove garlic, minced
artichoke (canned and quartered)

- lay tortilla on baking sheet lined with parchment paper
- smear tomato sauce over surface to coat
- add olives, garlic, and artichoke
- roll spinach up like a cigar and chop, scatter over pizza
- evenly coat mozz on top
- bake at 400°F until edge of tortilla is browned

Portabello Sammich

2012-06-29T20:47:00.001-07:00

1 large portabello mushroom
olive oil
1/2 fire-roasted red bell pepper - enough to cover slice of bread (see below for roasting instructions, or buy canned fire-roasted red peppers - just as good)
spinach - enough to layer on sammich
2 oz goat cheese
1/2 Tbsp minced garlic
tsp lemon juice
2 slices of hardy bread

- slice portabello
- in med non-stick pan - lightly coat with olive oil, bring to med heat - add sliced portabello
- 2 minutes and flip
- 2 min and flip
- remove from pan and dab dry with paper towel
(cooked mushrooms can be refridgerated for sammiches for a few days - taste just as good cold)
- in small bowl combine goat cheese, minced garlic and lemon juice - mix thoroughly
- toast bread if desired
- slather on goat cheese mixture
- lay on spinach
- lay on pepper
- lay on portabellos

broiler roasting peppers
- remove top of pepper by cutting downward at the crown and cutting around the stem (like a pumpkin) - pop the top out and the placenta and seeds should follow (slice long-ways down the side of the pepper if it doesn't come out easily)
- cut pepper in half, place open side down in the broiler set to 500°F or oven broiler setting
- broil for up to 15 min, keep an eye and remove when most of the pepper is blackened
- remove and let cool under a paper towel
- remove skin, pat dry

gas stove-top roasting
- turn on burner to med-low
- place whole pepper on burner's grate
- turn with grilling tongs until most of the pepper's skin is blackened
- remove and let cool under a paper towel
- remove skin, pat dry

Stuffed Eggplant

2012-06-29T20:18:00.000-07:00

stuffed eggplant:
1 eggplant
1 lb fresh mozzarella
3 tomatoes
1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes
Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 clove garlic, diced
fresh basil bunch
salt/pepper

2 methods:
1.    slice eggplant long-ways in strips ~2" wide and the full length (mandolin works, or mad knife fileting skills)
       - warm in oven (300°F) just until soft and flimsy
       - slice mozz and 2 of the tomatoes, tear off several large basil leaves
       - lay warmed eggplant strips in 2s in a cross, lay 1 slice tomato, mozz and large basil leaf in the middle
       - fold over bottom-most strip, then fold over the other strip to make a square packet
       - flip upside down, put back in oven for 5 min (optional)

2.     slice eggplant in medallions, leave raw
        - slice 2 tomatoes, mozz and tear off several large basil leaves
        - stack slices: eggplant-tomato-mozz-basil-eggplant
        - leave raw or heat in 300°F oven just until cheese starts to warm (fresh mozz gets watery if melted)

top with Relish:
(i don't recommend a food processor, it breakes down the tomatoes too much and waters down the flavor)
- dice 1 tomato, garlic, and mince sun-dried tomatoes and 3 large basil leaves
- put in medium bowl, add balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper
- mash with wooden spoon or tenderizer

The Perennially Apposite

2012-06-28T09:51:00.002-07:00

"Most daemoniacal of all shocks is that of the abysmally unexpected and grotesquely unbelievable."
"... this comfort in suffering is the last resort of the hopelessly trapped ego, trying desperately to find a way of doing the right thing..."
"... wait without thought... so the darkness shall become light, and the stillness the dancing..."
"... some sort of passive mirror which merely reflects experience..."
"Look as I may, I will find no knower - only knowing; no doer - only doing."
"... the Indestructable dares all extremes..."
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~HP Lovecraft

disappointments will be your failure; your own self-deception and self-doubt will condemn you
Only those that truly see what it is to climb - only those who are the best of themselves can surpass their doubts and inhibitions, and join me for the spectacular view from here. It's getting awfully boring looking at it alone.
I wait to be truly surprised by something - anything - because there really is nothing else that matters.

I abandon myself to inanition - it reigns me as my purpose, then.

Patience is my absolution, and I quietly watch the rare and beautiful forms of humanity play out before me; there only for me to appreciate, because I can no longer touch them - I could never touch them. My smile protrudes as my heart sinks, knowing all too well that its saturninity is the consequence of my own delight. How silly such a feeling is, however, even as rich and bitter food, so too is all feeling better when noted and savored but cursorily.

I know there are those that would contest me on a philosophical and political basis for this, but I think that most people would behoove themselves to take one simple thing into consideration: objectivism - in the sense that one is completely and irrevocably accountable for oneself and no one else.
If one fails to be responsible for oneself, regardless of fault, one cannot possibly be of any use to anyone else - one would be a potential hurt to all others, despite well-meaning intentions.
Be honest to the point of pain; be detached to the point of objectivity; be understanding and compassionate to yourself so you may be compassionate and understanding with others; face your fears; once you have passed through them, you'll realize that it wasn't so bad after all, that the darkness really wasn't there. No matter what the outcome, it was the journey that matters.
From love to peace: a response to the error in the practice of detachment.
Be careful: detachment and deprivation/isolation are not the same thing. Detachment doesn't mean that you can't have enjoyment and be sociable; it means that you are not affected in negative ways by what goes on around you because of a lack of control over how you feel. When you are attached to something, it clouds your judgment: you anger easily and love passionately because of need and dependency. This usually results in defensiveness and unhappiness. Detachment is a lack of dependency on those things around you and the reactions to which you cannot control. It is the allowance of taking pleasure in small things that might not always be good, but they are only capable of affecting you in ways that you permit them, because you are detached from dependency.
This, like most things, constitutes a semantic misunderstanding. Detachment in a general understanding of one ignoring the world around him and aspects of one's own existence is not healthy. Detachment from dependencies, however, allows for operating freely without constraints of defensiveness and fear. Thus, you should be able to detach yourself from a situation in order to observe its nature with as little bias as possible. To do so, you must not be emotionally invested upon the outcome.
A healthy detachment comes when you can quiet your mind from emotional excess so that you can allow yourself to see what is really there instead of what you tell yourself. Emotions have their purposes, but they are bombarded and wholly over-extended in modern times because of the environments, "entertainment," and food chemicals we are subjected to. To quiet the mind allows you to detach from some aspects and reattach to others, such as the "universe" as Crowley describes it, or "source" as does Wayne Dyer.
Having peace and quiet around you and your being is not easy to live with; things become futile and purposeless because there's no reason for it all except what reason you allow it to have. This is why most people strive to maintain a religious faith, because that degree of futility is hard to live with: namely, can one live happily without mattering? But what of the ability and power to define the entirety of your own existence...

How divine

quotes from Critical Appendix, "The Birth of Christianity: Reality and Myth"

2012-05-24T06:52:00.001-07:00

"...Thus, the family of Jesus is presented as having thought him out of his mind, to begin with, and as explicitly repudiated by Jesus. This is complemented by the contemptuous description of the Apostles, who also constituted, together with Upright Jacob [Jesus' brother], the core of the Jesist coterie in Jerusalem. They are constantly described as bickering over precedence and rewards..."
"... The counterposition of these two attitudes--that Simon the Rock recognized Jesus as Messiah but denied the salvational function of the resurrection--is no more than a way of indicating that the Jerusalem group headed by Upright Jacob did not believe in Jesus except as the Jewish Messiah [the bringer of the very terrestrial Kingdom of God that would simply restore Hebrew sovereignty and defeat the Romans]. His role as Lord of the Universe, of Divine Savior of Mankind, meant nothing to them. In short, the viewpoint of Paul is put forth in Mark in such a way as to take advantage of the Jewish debacle. The ground plan of Mark goes far beyod details; it has a profound apologetic aim..."
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"After almost 2 centuries of the most painstaking, intense study by scores of thousands of able, conscientious scholars, the amount of information refined out of the sources can be contained in a few lines.
"There is no assurance of the most primitive facts about Jesus the man: the significance of the word "Nazarene," the date and place of his birth, his parents, his family, his milieu. All such information is summed up in a disconcertingly barren statement: in the words of Charles Guignebert, Jesus was 'born somewhere in Galilee in the time of Emperor Augustus, in a modest family that aside from him numbered a good half-dozen children.'
"Moreover, the paucity of information about the background and personality of Jesus the man is reinforced by the utter absence of any indication of original teaching; whatever Jesus thought about religion, and in particular about Judaism, his own ideas failed to survive his death. He could neither have foreseen nor desired the state of affairs that replaced the Kingdom of God he was promoting, and even though the genetic relationship between himself and Chrisitanity is evident, it can only be in the narrow sense that the new religion coagulated through speculations around the meaning of his death."
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"Generations of higher critics have stubbornly disregarded the titanic fact staring at them from out of the desert of the documentation-- the causal connection between Jesus's initial emergence as a herald of the Kingdom of God and his execution by the Romans as an insurrectoinist-- and have accepted as plausible what was a mere apologia on the part of the believers of the first phase of the evolving faith [roman converts]."
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"But once it is accepted that the thought of founding a new religion never even crossed Jesus's mind, it becomes obvious that Christianity derives not from anything Jesus did but from what happened after his death. Thus it was after his death that the germination and efflorescence of a new religion took place, rooted in the primordial vision of Jesus resurrected and glorified... 'If Jesus was not resurrected the faith was in vain.'
"But if this is so, it means that the entire vast library of literature on Christian origins, to the extent that it struggled to fling a bridge from the religion itself to the figure of its putative founder, was condemned to sterility... Jesus had originated nothing in the religion that sprang up over his dead body."

Veggie Tomato Soup

2012-04-11T22:37:00.003-07:00

24oz creamy tomato soup
12oz roasted red pepper soup
1/2 cup chicken or vegetable stock
1 chopped zucchini
1/2 pint chopped mushrooms
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic
1 chopped tomato
1/4 cup slivered sun-dried tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 lb raw shrimp - skinned/deveined
Tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp chili powder
stale baguette/ stale sourdough bread

Rinse and chop all veggies and set aside. Heat large pot and add soups and stock. Once simmering, add chopped veggies and olive oil. Heat sauté pan, add enough oil to coat pan - once hot, add shrimp : pink shrimp on both sides, then add to soup pot. Simmer just until all ingredients are hot ~15 min. Salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat, cut stale bread into 1" cubes. Dish soup and add bread cubes on top to serve.

Roast Veggies/ Fruits

2012-03-12T03:31:00.002-07:00

Roasted Heirloom Tomatoes and Plums
[seen w/ Morrocan spiced short ribs]

Tomatoes are actually fruits, work with their sweetness and acidity when preparing with heavier foods like red meats to give a warm and light flavor contrast

the key to great veggies is to not overcook and let their naturally delicious flavors come out

1 qt heirloom tomatoes
3 plums cut into ~1" cubes
1 Tbsp honey/agave nectar
grapeseed oil
sea salt

place tomatoes and plum cubes in roasting dish, drizzle with oil and honey/nectar, dash of salt, toss to coat the fruit
roast at 350°F and remove as soon as tomatoes start to split

Raw Veggies I

2012-03-12T03:11:00.003-07:00

raw veggie dip

3 raw Brussels sprouts

3 green onions

1/2 avocado

2 garlic cloves

1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 Tbsp grape seed oil

1/2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

salt

steak seasoning

put all ingredients into food processor

[to prep avocado: slice in half around pit, twist the two halves, use spoon to remove flesh from skin]

season to taste

eat with naan, rice crackers, or celery

or leave corsely processed and serve as a slaw

Preparing Veggies I

2012-03-12T02:51:00.005-07:00

simple salads: dark leaf base, 2+ tasty veggies, protein / starch, acid, and oil

here:
baby spinach
1/2 bell pepper-julienne
1/2 onion- sliced
toss with 1/2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar and 1Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, pinch sea salt/cracked pepper
topped with roasted red potato and white cheddar wafer

to make cheddar wafers: heat small non-stick pan to low-med, lay single layer of shredded white cheddar. allow to melt, use paper towel to soak up extra oil. once it can be moved with a spatchula, flip for 10 seconds, remove from pan to paper towel, and shape quickly while warm

Preparing Veggies II

2012-03-12T02:51:00.004-07:00

easy tasty veggies... if they were this good when i was a kid, i woulda eaten 'em

Green Beans

4 Red Potatoes

1 lemon cut in wedges

1 TBSP butter

Blanch a hand full of whole green beans :

- use beans at room temp

- bring pot of water to a boil

- add green beans and boil until they are neon green ~5 min, quickly strain

- cut red potatoes in ~1" cubes
- heat non-stick pan med-heat, melt 1 TBSP butter
- add lemon wedges and potatoes - once potatoes start to brown, add blanched green beans
- toss in the pan until potatoes are just browned ~3-5min - don't need to be cooked through, the raw crunch adds to the texture
- pinch salt/pepper

A Starting Point

2011-04-21T23:12:00.002-07:00

I have not indulged in writing in so long... I've tried to use it to cope, but it became the method of expelling... expelling to destroy. I am unsure if it's a result of gaining substance and solid ground under me or the jazz on the radio - making me long for those endless hours at a coffee shop : alternately reading and writing, enveloped and saturated with the smells of coffee, pastries, and yes, sunlight filtered through panes of glass, with its playful dynamic, dancing with the cool dark and its rich upholstery.

I'd often thought in times of great turmoil and great joys, that I'd like for someone to know of my life. It's no exceptional life, but it's my life; something I rarely speak about, even to those who know me best. I've been reading a number of memoirs: novels or short stories about amazing or moving events - the things that made deep impressions; how they were neither good nor bad situations in the end, but both; they were something that disrupted monotony - a little turbulence to recolor the atmosphere; a mess to force one to repaint their inner walls which helped to then reconcile the inner world with the outer universe.

I cannot say when my life began. I like to avoid definitions; so defining everything that could be meant by "life", i won't exclude. I can say that my living has included a series of several deaths: undoings, little oblivions, difficult transitions... you get the idea. My existence, personally, is quite vexing. In association to Judeo-Christian norms: one may say that I have an old soul. But, were that it were entirely of human experience, I'm convinced I would've been much more proficient in understanding "being human." My earliest ability to reconcile my physical existence was the conjecture that I was something - not an "angel", but something watching, watching these humans and getting rather perturbed at how they muck up such simple things to create vast, deadly, emotional dramas that never cease, and for what? Here comes, peeking over my shoulder, the ruling element of the universe (God, et al), and says, "so, you think you could do better?" Oh, it's on, God. I'm comfortably certain that I am quite the amusement for It - I imagine several smirks and head-shaking being done at my expense.

I am a living oxymoron, occupying both poles in almost every degree simultaneously. It becomes an art form to develop any semblance of consistency in opinions, sentiments, actions - luckily I realized early to drop several gender-based pretenses in order to comply with what I knew to be more relevant. I am 8 years old, and I am 80: too young for shame, and too old to care; too young to be bitter and conditioned, but old and wisened from past bitterness, too old to care about appropriateness; young enough to have superhero hopes and dreams, always seeing the world in new and beautiful lights, but old enough to see a world of life behind me and the futility of it all.

I'm a man, and so can you

2011-04-01T19:30:00.000-07:00

JOHN STONE!!!!!: oh wow.
I don't believe this store.
Jer: oh.. today.. i'll beleive it
JOHN STONE!!!!!: I sent out for a handset because they TOLD me that they swapped with another and it worked fine. Now they are claiming that they put on the new handset and it's not working.
Jer: they LIE!!!
close out your ticket
then open another one saying it's a different problem
JOHN STONE!!!!!: Oh goody! I like that idea. lol
Jer: may as well make it work for your benefit
JOHN STONE!!!!!: I wish they would learn how to put us on hold.
Jer: dropping the phone to the floor isn't hold?

JOHN STONE!!!!!: This lady is trying to tell me there is no computer tower in the office. lol
Jer: nice
tell her 'ok you will remain down'
JOHN STONE!!!!!: ha ha.
Jer: or you can find me a teenager
do you have any children in the store? yes, take the child into the office and tell them to find the computer
tower

Jer: bastards are complaining that nexgen is letting them fill a script
McGlame!!!: lol... not a common complaint
Jer: i know!! usually it's 'OMG!!! Nexgen won't let me commit fraud!!!!!'
JAW!!!: ?!
Jer: so....
Jer belches
JAW!!!: nice
you are such a man
=-o
Jer: hehe
someone has to be

blood makes scsi work

2011-03-27T21:12:00.000-07:00

Jer: alright, i'm bored... start tap-dancing
JAW!!!: Ok
JAW!!!: I hope this is entertaining, i'm getting funny looks
Jer: hehe

Jer: i used to, not that i ever used it
JOHN STONE!!!!!: ah.
Jer: no one knew why they gave it to me
JOHN STONE!!!!!: I was just curious. I'm supposed to be getting one again...not sure when. After they already took it away once. Makes no sense.
Jer: it makes SENTS!!!

JAW!!!: vince smells like flowers
Jer: oh dear

JOHN STONE!!!!!: wow. This lady cut her finger trying to reseat the drive.
Jer: ow...
Jer: do you think the blood will appease the sasi gods?
JOHN STONE!!!!!: I hope.

Problems... at 'Work'

2011-03-25T22:58:00.000-07:00

Munz: that would solve a lot of problems
Jer: what did i do?
Munz: john: we gotta get the pharmacy out of nexgen
Jer: hhahahha
i wasn't even paying attention
but, yes....
we should make them hand scribe for a week...
then they'll stop bitching
for a month
Munz: here's your new computer
this is an abacus and a box of crayons?
yeah, try not to fuck it up

McGlame!!!: why are kim and c-mart discussing arsenic and heavy metals?
Jer: hehheheheh...
McGlame!!!: should I be concerned about my food and drink? lol
Jer: they have plans for the RA plumbing
over by the water cooler
McGlame!!!: lol
i was reading about why helium makes your voice higher, and they mentioned that gases heavier than air would make your voice lower--but cautioned readers not to try it because such gases are poisonous... lol
Jer: hahahhaaha
to say the least
McGlame!!!: so don't inhale krypton to find out!

Chuck: 4 calls over 3 minutes
Jer: oh, is that what that blinking light is?
Chuck: yeah yeah

Jer: or do you think they'll be like >:(
McGlame!!!: you were tardy as well?
Jer: yeah....
morale is lacking
looks like we females beat you guys out
McGlame!!!: how's that?
Jer: Jen, Kim, Steph and I took top 3 for last week
McGlame!!!: ahhh
Jer: Steph and I tied
McGlame!!!: back to the old pattern?
Jer: you boys better step up
slackas
McGlame!!!: who slackaz?
Jer: psht!!!
male types
McGlame!!!: lol
Jer: i heard that!

never doubt the power of KEFIR!!

2011-03-18T22:58:00.000-07:00

Jer: i'm converting row 3 to kefir
Limey: :D
I got john barr on it today
I figured it would help him, he's managed to lose 35lb already
why am I so hyper
Jer: it's a restless day
there are more cars out on the road than ive seen in a long time... i had to cross at xwalks just to get across streets today
Limey: True, I've not been able to sit still... I keep standing just to stop myself fidgiting.
yup, it's warm more people willing to venture out
Jer: steph and bob are comparing kefir flavors and avaialbility

Jer: row 3 is converting to kefir... better jump on the bandwagon
McGlame!!!: if they only sell it at giant, I won't be joining...
i have beef with giant
Jer: they sell it at wegman's too
i haven't looked at weis,,, cuz weis puts velveeta in the fridge section....
McGlame!!!: eh... i never get to wegmans...
weis is my official grocer
Jer: i'm soo sorry

Jer: looks like there will be dells to reboot tonight
McGlame!!!: ah, those dells are just mindin' their own business
Jer: not working!!!!
AUTO NO WORK!!!!
McGlame!!!: lol

jaw: no, cuz it doesn't
Jer: shhhh...!!!!
Jer: they don't have to know it's not extra
Jer: IT:S NOT WORKING!!!
Jer: there's a storming the castle princess bride board game...
jaw: storming the princess' "Castle"?
Jer: wow... have you really never seen princess bride

JOHN STONE!!!!!: Another thing that doesn't make sense, that new RS issue for the sigcaps, how in the world are we supposed to know if it is related to the time issue?
Jer: touch your nose
JOHN STONE!!!!!: ha ha.
Jer: that's our fix-all now...
just have the store personnel touch their nose
JOHN STONE!!!!!: omg. One minute this girl calls me 'she', and then later 'he'.
lol
Jer: umm... take no offense... just hold your head high... you're a virgo
JOHN STONE!!!!!: ha ha ha.

Jer: you just wish you could be irish
Limey: haha nah
Limey: I love the Irish, and the Scotts, but I'm happy being English
Jer: well, you're not a very good englishman
Limey: correction, I'm not meant to like them wanting independence.. liking them is a different matter
Jer: liking them under your boot
Limey: ;p

McGlame!!!: have you noticed this phenomenon where one can agree with bob baker, and something akin to an argument still ensues?
like just now, jont and bob were saying the exact same thing; that wolves can control wild boar, yet it was like they were arguing about it
who in row 3 is haaaatin' life?
Jer: phenomenon
that's what we call a discussion

McGlame!!!: well, it seems to be a bit more heated than a regular discussion
Jer: it's the hate of stupid.... they're fighting the invisible ass-hats that make dumb decisions
McGlame!!!: lol

Sparse... but emphatic

2011-03-16T19:59:00.000-07:00

McGlame!!!: so is japan going to take the dirtnap?
Jer: no more robots
McGlame!!!: lol
Jer: god hates robots.. so he's punishing the japs
McGlame!!!: wow
Jer: just watch, WBC is gonna go demonstrate at their funerals

ew: plum island animal disease center
Jer: is that where they take the PA mullets when they get too ... mulletty

I like NACHOS!

2011-03-14T20:18:00.000-07:00

Jer: that store ever come back up last night?
jaw: which one?
Jer: um... granny and her inability to distinguish between green cords and non-existent cords
that she unplugged anyway
jaw: There's nothing I can do about colorblind people o.O
Do they teach you the OSI model at all in any training scenarios over there?
Jer: osi....
what does osi mean?
jaw: yeah the 7 layers of the OSI model
Jer: 7 layers....
of NACHOS!!!!
wait... how is green vs non-existent colorblindness...?

McGlame!!!: ooh, i got it!
Jer: wait... i thought you were jaw
McGlame!!!: ahhh!
Jer: my brain goes
McGlame!!!: there's why everything is so confusing!
Jer: where?!?!
McGlame!!!: yes
Jer: gah!!!

Needs real meat and less rain

2011-03-10T20:57:00.000-08:00

jaw: qualifies as a photo bomb
Jer: yeah.... should be good on lol
i want cheeseburger... it feels like friday
what has jer learned this week : soy/vegi burgers pale in comparison to portabello burgers... which apparently are worth the extra 30¢ per patty
jaw: I like burgers made out of cows.
Jer: yes!
but you can't leave them sitting around unreffrigerated
for hours
and don't taste quite so good with goatcheese...

Jer is soaked
Limey: no good
Jer: i'm starting to feel the misery
shoot me now
atlas modified
McGlame!!!: nah... against the atlas... AND the code of ethics...
Jer: you've got something against euthenasia?
McGlame!!!: no, just doing it on the clock
Jer: you got something that can dry off my clothes?
McGlame!!!: not really...
Jer stole vikki's heater... is getting much drier now
Jer then spills water all over her desk
Jer: i hate my life
Limey: hehe
aww
Jer: it's a good thing i saved my choco pastry
i'mma need it

McGlame!!!: "3nd trip Tech will return to trouble shoot the music on hold. "
3nd?
Jer: yup... that's the caliber we're dealing with