FOOD SAFETY EXPLAINED Neither my wife nor I have ever experienced food-borne illnesses. Maybe that is pure luck, or maybe it isn’t. We know people who have gotten sick from bad food and they may have made some preventable mistakes. For instance, my niece got sick after eating cookie dough. It had raw eggs in it and people aren’t …
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GUEST POST from Don – I Want a Car
I WANT A CAR Driving home after dark from Tennessee recently, my wife touched a button on the steering wheel by mistake and exclaimed, “I don’t know what I just told the car to do.” Nothing showed up on the dashboard, but if you change a radio station a light on the dash tells you. Why would …
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GUEST POST from Don – Reversible Dementia
REVERSIBLE DEMENTIA Although never mentioned in articles about “scientific ways to reduce the probability of dementia,” here are some ACTUAL scientific ways…found in weird, unheard of places like the government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Springer.com websites. There is a moderate list of correctable physical issues which can cause dementias or symptoms of dementia. It …
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GUEST POST from Don – Shopping Carts
SHOPPING CARTS I’ve a bit of concern about shopping cart etiquette. Having been a business owner I know the value of maintaining quality equipment. I took care of my tools and experienced over a decade of use with one daily-used hand sprayer. Techs couldn’t seem to keep theirs functioning longer than 2 years. An average well-cared for shopping cart …
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GUEST POST from Don – Wisdom Is Smart
WISDOM IS SMART I admit that sometimes I agree with what others write, perhaps not often. I saw an article by Darius Foroux “Lessons I Learned the Hard Way.” His lessons have been experienced by many and usually lead to failure. It isn’t that his ideas are wrong, they just aren’t terribly right. It is my wish to improve …
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GUEST POST from Don – It Ain’t Meat
IT AIN’T MEAT + The Supreme Court of Switzerland, I believe, recently made a common-sense ruling. If something is NOT meat, then you can’t refer to it as meat. That is false advertising, they said. As a result plant-based proteins sold in that country cannot be called “Soy Chicken.” It isn’t chicken at all. That’s smart. Improbable Burger …
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GUEST POST from Don – Gas-lighting (pt III)
GAS-LIGHTING (part III) Hopefully you are getting better at identifying when writers are attempting to gaslight. We have been needled into changing our lifestyles because of “man-made global warming.” We have been told we must buy more efficient cars. We have been told we must “upgrade” to all electric. Tax money has been given to organizations which install …
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GUEST POST from Don – Emotional Stability
EMOTIONAL STABILITY “Do not drive or operate heavy machinery” is the warning after sedation or anesthesia for surgery. Excellent advice! Anesthesia discombobulates one’s senses. I read up on the anesthesia from my last medical event. The half-life of the anesthesia product was 10-20 minutes. Two hours after waking I was still under its influence. I just wish they wouldn’t wake me …
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GUEST POST from Don – Ineffective Action +
INEFFECTIVE ACTION +(DOING “SOMETHING” ISN’T WORKING) Hey! We’ve all done it, right! A fly lands on the edge of the counter (its almost always an edge) and being a “professional” fly killer you swing your arm and slap the counter with your hand…and the fly is already gone. Instead of finding a flyswatter you try “something” less effective. …
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GUEST POST from Don – Cream of Something
“CREAM OF SOMETHING” That’s what a 106 year old nursing home resident called her lunch. When you’re 106 you should get a good lunch, don’t you think. Every meal should be presented as if it were her last. Nothing says, “You lived this long for nothing” like cream of something soup. I happen to now know several …
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