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Evolution, or Denial of Reality??

Here's the typical home remote.  Big enough to hold comfortably even after half a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.  Mmmm, so meaty.

Behold! The Apple TV remote.  So small we spend more time looking for the darn thing than using it.  It's the reason we're not watching Game of Thrones.  I hate you, tiny remote.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The predictable end product of ever shrinking remotes: Thanks Apple for phones larger than a laptop and remotes smaller than a postage stamp.

Crazy Cat Pic Thursday!

LCHF Diet Extraordinaire Update

I'm still eating LCHF and eating any kind of diet with a catchy name means I have to write excruciatingly detailed and personal posts about my "journey" and personal transformation following this new doctrine, I mean, diet.  Luckily for you, I'll be skipping the bathroom details.  Let's just say all is A-OK and on the boring side. 

From reading other people's blogs and books and testimonials though, I have to ask, "Why am I so untroubled in the bathroom department??"  It's like a rite or something on any new diet to finally be regular, stop being regular, stop everything, never have a minute's peace, wonder what the hell that is, ask strangers on the internet if they've ever seen anything like what I've described, and maybe even take pics of it to bring to the doctors.  Instead, I'm just sailing through life without purpose.

So nothing tantalizing on that front.  What is different for me on this new way of eating?  Actually, not much.  I think I eat less because the fat fills me up.  I seem to be more likely to skip meals, but then, I did before.  I do notice less energy after hard weight workouts, but I'm also still making progress and getting stronger.  I'm thirsty more often, but that's probably the kidneys groaning under all the red meat I'm eating.  Suck it up, waste strainers!  We all have our little challenges.

I have not gained any weight.  I sleep the same.  I look the same.  I spend five times as much on food.  But, who knows, I have no proof that this diet has not made me resistant to all illnesses, and perhaps immortal.  That's something.  More updates later.  If you're lucky, I'll post pictures of my fat drenched meals. Instead, I'm posting this:

Low Carb High Fat tips I've learned from the internet

LCHF tip #1: If it's a floaty, you're eating fat mostly.

(sorry...)

Housewife News Digest

Weiner - Egads.  Who wants a text of your thingy?  You have a shallow conscience and you lack integrity.  You would be a detriment to NYC. 

Weiner's wife - WTH??  Leave the bastard.  Scared he'll become mayor and you'll have missed your chance to share the spotlight?  Ewww, prostrating yourself before your husband's career, how humiliating. 

NSA spying - Mixed feelings.  We have to protect ourselves from the losers with small brains who would like to hurt us.  But at the same time, it's good to know it's being done so when conservative leaning groups start to be harassed by liberal governmental agencies we can trace it back and maybe stop it.

IRS scandal - McCarthyism, but without the outrage since it's not being done to groups on the Left.  Oh, how lefty groups wish it could be them, instead. 

Zimmerman hatred - Perceived group dissing trumps bad schools and high murder rates in the Black community every time.

I Don't Mind the Stupid People, It's the Stupid Narcissists

I have two sons who both work in different fast food restaurants.  One works for the world's largest chain.  The other works for a more upscale chain.  Contrary to what many people seem to think, fast food chain employees actually have brains and are able to size up and judge their customers, too.  And some people are dicks. 

First, my son who works for the most successful fast food chain in the world has no complaints about his customers.  His customer base is made up of people living in subsidized housing, from the homeless shelter across the street, day laborers, construction workers, taxi drivers, and locals from the recently gentrified areas (dinks with dogs).  His customers behave normally and are friendly. 

My other son, however, has a more upscale clientele; business people, upper-middle income, tourists, and so forth.  Imagine a busy street in one of DC metro's more expensive, touristy areas.  He has the most rude, belligerent, cheap, lying, pathetic excuses for customers.   Well-dressed women mock the foreign worker for not being able to speak English well.  Well-dressed men try to finagle extra meat for no extra cost, even going so far as to threaten my son with being fired if he doesn't give them the extra food at no cost. 

Wow, threatening teenagers and recent immigrants while at the same time demanding more for less.  Just who do they think take minimum wage jobs?   You want more for less?  Stop yelling at the teenagers and immigrants willing to serve your ugly mug for low pay and hard work.  Morons.

My son has been yelled at, used as a ruse for free food, lied about, threatened, and cheated out of money by apparently well-off individuals.  He has stories about middle aged women, with every appearance of being solidly in the middle classes somewhere, screeching and demanding free food for things completely out of his control.  Something goes slightly wrong, we're not talking cancer here, and some people lash out at the weakest person in the vicinity.  It's disgusting.

Whatever happened to self control?  Or of empathy?  I think these oddly mean people with their shallow material wealth haven't ever had to really work.  They must have gone from coddled child to spoiled teen to privileged adult without ever having to see the world from the other side of the counter.

We live in a wealthy area in the DC metro area.  We saved to live here.  We worked minimum wage jobs to finally work our way up to a little wealth ourselves.  And I have never lived anywhere with people so shrieky and ready to take offense.  Just today I saw a woman in an expensive mini-van lean out her window and screech at a family of non-English speakers who walked against the light. 

Yes, a crime against humanity deserving the most hateful of condemnation.  But what this ugly woman didn't see was that this family was encouraged across the street by the lead car who thought he was doing a nice thing for this small group of tourists who took the waving forward as a request to walk.  So, some idiot with a life far too important to be patient with foreigners crossing against the light let the world know how it made her feel -- ugly and mean.  As if we don't have real problems to scream at.  Pathetic. 

She probably has a nice family, lives in a nice home, gets her nails done, but she has to publicly curse out a bunch of tourists who made her wait maybe 15 seconds.  It was a disgusting scene, and I pity her.  If she could have seen the rage on her face...over a trifle. 

I don't know.  My sons are getting an education far beyond anything they can learn in school.  They're learning about people and character.  People who break down because they're out of pulled pork are not the kind of people one wants to emulate.  I tell them to learn from the losers and copy the good ones.  Because there are good customers.   Sometimes, a restaraunt runs out of avocado.  Adjust.  It's not the end of the world. 

The End of the World is the end of the world.  We all soon enough run out of time.  Let's not think waiting an extra 15 seconds is that time and treat other people poorly.  It's bad character, embarrassing, immoral, and will never lead to anything other than your eventual humiliation in front of people who work harder than you.  Have some character and use that time to think of something nice to do for someone else.  You are not all that.  Ask the women who come in to clean your house.  Ask your server.  He's watching you, too.