I brown bag it a lot at work

Post #28,481 by nking 2/15/02 9:56:07 AM Reply	I brown bag it a lot at work why pay $4 for a salad, when I can make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, a bottle of water, and some Sunchips in a baggie for under $2? "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #28,617 by Meerkat 2/16/02 2:22:30 AM Reply	Swap the brown bag for some Tupperware? You could chuck a salad in there and have a healthier lunch that's probably even cheaper. But I gotta admit, the last thing I want to do first thing in the morning is prepare a salad. I usually have a vegetarian Turkish Pide bread for lunch. Yum. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #28,620 by wharris2 2/16/02 2:41:29 AM Reply	Desk drawer full of soup My bottom desk drawer is full of various soups (chicken noodle, clam chowder, and so forth) that I eat maybe half the time. Just today (er I guess yesterday by now) I ate a Lipton beef noodle concoction, which was not bad. But it is damn hard to keep a salad in your desk drawer. :=) The local Kroger has a salad bar that charges something like $3.00 a pound, and the trouble with lettuce and fixin's is that they aren't light. Might be low on calaries, but costs. Wendy's has a garden salad for $2.00, but when I go there I usually also get the baked potato for an additional $1.00. Pity that the local Wendy's (and, apparently, most of them) have eliminated their salad bar. Makes me want to go a little further to go to some other place that might offer more gunk. Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt, from his Recluse series
Post #28,647 by nking 2/16/02 11:41:17 AM Reply	I could but everytime I eat a salad my colon gets clogged up, my doctor told me to avoid lettuice, tomatos, and other stuff that seems to upset my stomach and colon. Nothing like spending over 7 minutes in a bathroom trying to make a bowel movement. :( "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #28,719 by Silverlock 2/17/02 2:32:36 AM Reply	7 minutes?! Is that all? Jebus! I've actually fallen asleeep in there waiting for something to happen. That's why I always take a book. The lavatory at work is now known as "Don's Library". The lavatory at home is not mentioned in polite company. With this much manure around, there must be a pony somewhere.
Post #28,743 by nking 2/17/02 2:43:11 PM Reply	That is usually how long my employer would give for a bathroom break. Most of the employers in the St. Louis area seem to give 7 minutes for a break, any long than that and they write you up for it. At my previous job, some coworkers had actually taken a stopwatch when they saw someone head for the bathroom and if it was over 7 minutes, they reported it to the boss. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #28,753 by pwhysall 2/17/02 4:27:27 PM Reply	Aren't they all? I call my bathroom "The Reading Room", because that's what it is. I'm half way through The Code Book (third time of reading). I've been known to spend 45 minutes in there, because I've got engrossed and just HAVE to finish the chapter... Porcelain Thrones are places of learning, used properly :-) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #28,755 by Andrew Grygus 2/17/02 4:49:02 PM Reply	What in hell are you guys eating? Sheesh! 30 seconds tops - takes longer to clean up. I can't imagine reading on the can. You're all going to get hermroids. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #28,756 by pwhysall 2/17/02 4:53:59 PM Reply	Some things can't be rushed ;) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #28,765 by nking 2/17/02 6:12:02 PM Reply	Colon problems, IBS/IBD No matter what I eat, it takes a long time to pass it out of my colon and into the toliet. Sometimes at work I need to stop in the middle of a BM, because of their 7 minute rule, and hold it until my next bathroom break. It is not easy at all. Hemroids, I had them before, took two weeks off on short-term disability after the surgery. I had internal hemroids, not external as most common hermroids are. My colon also has bumps, redness, and polopys on it that hurt when the waste is pushed past it. Feels like I am passing needles or something at sometimes. I stick to a very bland diet, with lots of fiber, but still have a hard time going. Sometimes it hurts so much, I always wish I were dead. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #28,790 by pwhysall 2/18/02 3:34:54 AM Reply	Woah, woah, WOAH! Time out, dude, TIME OUT! WAY too much information there, Norm. I feel for ya (in the figurative sense) but... There are some things that a guy doesn't EVER need to know about another guy. This is one of those things. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #28,804 by nking 2/18/02 10:24:06 AM Reply	You will have to know to understand the pain and suffering I go through, and why suicide actually sounds good to me after I feel that way. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #28,793 by Silverlock 2/18/02 9:29:20 AM Reply	Norman "too much information" King strikes again. :( With this much manure around, there must be a pony somewhere.
Post #28,812 by boxley 2/18/02 11:24:59 AM Reply	drink lots of lime juice, guarrantie to help flush that gut Mike Doogan "Then there's figure skating and ice dancing and snowboarding. The winners are all chosen by judges. That's not sports. That's politics. And curling? If curling is a sport, pork rinds are a health food."
Post #28,813 by wharris2 2/18/02 11:27:47 AM Reply	Speaking of eating When you go to most restaurants, even their spiciest dinners are usually reasonably hot but unless you actually go to, say, a wings place and as for the Nuclear Meltdown Wings (or whatever they call their particular wings), the food is just that - reasonably hot and spicy but tasty. On the recommendation of a coworker, I was trying a new Mexican restaurant and noticed on their menu an option of "Habanero Chicken". Now as you may know, Habanero peppers are one of the hottest on earth. And I like hot stuff, so I decided to give this a try. But one bite of this stuff and my eyes and brain almost exploded. That may have been the hottest restaurant entree I've ever eaten, and might even surpass some of the chili concoctions I made for myself in my younger years. Either the cook was having a bad day or this place actually has a Habanero chicken covered with and sitting in a pool of very hot sauce. Oh man. Now, as it makes its way through my system, the bathroom break is... uh... interesting. Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt, from his Recluse series
Post #28,817 by Andrew Grygus 2/18/02 12:03:15 PM Reply	The risks of ordering stuff "spicy". Back in the days when I was an employee, I used to have lunch at a Thai restaurant. I was considered a special patron because I was there on opening day when the priests from the local temple were blessing the place. Most days I ordered the same soup, always ordered as "extra spicy". One day the kitchen crew apparently decided to see just what I could take. It was quite an adventure, but the bowl went back empty. If you eat a lot of hot stuff, the body adjusts and the "stinging asshole" effect goes away. I haven't experienced that for at least a decade. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #28,819 by wharris2 2/18/02 12:47:20 PM Reply	That's okay when I say extra spicy There was a ma-and-pa Chinese joint just down the road from where I worked, and I always ordered extra spicy there. Eventually, after I'd been there enough, they started to really load it on, which was fine with me. But I didn't expect volcanic power by default. Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt, from his Recluse series
Post #28,858 by Ashton 2/18/02 7:08:10 PM Reply	re 'spicy' and health (?) I notice that several alternative approaches to 'taking back control of your own health' found some value in occasional piquante stuff. Note that this is not about "no pain / no gain" - perhaps the penultimate stupid mantra - nor about contests in personal masochism. Ex: A simple 1-week diet for flushing the system, and esp. the liver, consists of: Limes / lemons + maple syrup, water. And more than 'a dash' of cayenne. You drink this as and when you want - and that is All you eat! I tried this. Was amazed to find that it indeed satisfied the 'hunger pang switch'.. and in fact, became so natural that I extended it to 10 days. (Was also an excellent way to drop nicotine for quite a while: you Cannot ingest any alkaloids etc. 'during' - as this diet cleans out your system so thoroughly that you'd be hypersensitive to the kinds of toxins we daily become inured to. A drag on a cigarette would knock you Flat. Remember your first one (for the smokers)? Real bad shit, that.. There are a couple of initial things you do too.. and you cannot immediately go back to - say, a big slice of blueberry pie? - but gradually take in solid food over some days. Etc. Point: the cayenne is essential. 'Why' I need not and didn't ask - it was enough that it Worked. Ashton
Post #28,868 by nking 2/18/02 9:13:01 PM Reply	Thai food My wife makes it, but has to make it unspicy for me to eat it. I used to like spicy, but due to my health problems I have to eat it without the spice. Thai food mostly uses curry peppers, usually red or green. Same kind found in India and other areas nearby. Thai resteraunts usually have two kinds of hot, Thai and American hot. Thai hot is very very hot, if you didn't grow up eating the Thai hot food, you will break a sweat and might get sick. Otherwise American hot is mild to the Thai people, but very hot to American people. Ever notice a Thai person or Chinese person gets less meat and stuff than an American person? They changed it to American's tastes to add more meat, more rice, and stuff. Try the Musteak at a Thai resteraunt, it is pork on a stuck. I think the chicken version is Gaisteak? Mu is pork and Gai is chicken. Pad I think stands for rice, if you see Pad in some Thai dish's name it means that rice comes with it. Nam is water, if you order water and the waitress looks confused, just say "Nam" and she might understand. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."

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