I'll give you this video link, too, off Japanese tv, and then I'll quit because I don't want to be too disaster porn about it. But these pieces of media affected my understanding of events. [link]

my gnome likes Duke too, so there.

Given the choice between something sugary and something savory, I will almost always choose savory. Good when I'm eating a giant pile of spinach. Not so good when it's a giant pile of french fries.

Apropos of the protein/cholesterol conversations, The Daily Mail offers this article featuring 10 non-animal protein sources.

That article talks about combining different proteins within a single meal to get complete proteins. I'm pretty sure that most studies have shown that that's not necessary -- getting some of the amino acids at one meal and others at a different meal is fine.

Liese. your link took me to my Facebook page.

while I eat plenty of sugar and I am not sugar adverse - I refuse artificial sweeteners because that taste off to me. So the only way to deal with diabetes and not completely give up was to wean my self off a lot of the excessive amounts in processesed foods. It took getting used to peanut butter with out sugar. But that means I can find apple pie in my diet more often . so I will give up sugar in peanut butter. But if skippy peanut butter was my all time favorite food -- I'd find a way to work it into my diet.

and a bowl of oatmeal isn't going to hurt me , but I might choose a different way of serving it . Or expect that lunch will be something that is veggies and protein -- but then again if i am going on a walk of more than a couple of miles, it might not make much difference over the long run. So it is complex and sometimes tiresome. Esp if you are trying to lose weight. of get in shape for the 3 day walk for the cure

ION, I went to one birthday celebration and now I am resting for the next.

msbelle, thanks for that link! That could be very useful (though I am unsure how I feel about a purple toilet.) Does give me options on non-vintage sinks.

Combative swim. So much so that at the end, instead of stopping, I pushed through to a full 2 miles without stopping because I FINALLY had a peaceful lane. I was so pissed off, I kept losing count, and based on the time, conservative estimate is I probably did closer to 76-78 laps. Summary: lane crashing adults who didn't ask if the other parties were doing circle swim, or even tell the others they were joining the lane (there were collisions,) getting called rude when I shortly told a crasher that a) it is safer, not to mention POLITE, to ask to join a lane and let people know (I was basically bugeyed at that point and said "Whatever, dude, you are insane" and went back to swimming,) all the goddamned kids I had to literally THROW out of the lanes (lifeguard was working it too, but they kept doing it,) and all their fins and shit floating into the lanes and colliding with that. And because of kids, kept hitting the lane marker and my hand is bruised and swollen.

I hate people sometimes.

I, too, prefer savory. When it comes to oatmeal, I usually don't eat lunch on days I have it, so the calorie count can bite me.

I hate the taste of artifical sweetners, and never add sugar to tea or coffee. I'll have a vanilla latte or a Coke every couple of weeks.

What I need to watch is fat. I love fat. Gimme some chicken skin, don't trim that pork chop or pot roast, fry that bitch in duck fat -- lay on the grease!

Poot. I was thinking about starting dinner, but my nails are still wet. Maybe if I can chop the vegetables very carefully...

OMG, Leonberger puppy. I've only seen pictures/video of the adults.

We saw one of those at the dog park recently. Like an ewok.