Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

floaters, duh

I just made it up. I imagine a series of posters, each with a character (various ages, genders, races) with a balled fist against each eye.

Uh-oh!

Because floaters or flashes can be an indication of a serious problem, you should our doctor when:
You see floaters for the first time
You notice an increase in the number or size of floaters
You experience the sudden onset of flashes

What movie was it where someone threw a snickers bar in the pool?

True story: first grade show-and-tell, my show-and-tell was telling everyone to close their eyes and dig their face into their arm so that they could see all the little colorful fireworks flashes.

xpost Caddyshack!

and it was actually a Baby Ruth

http://www.docsteinmetz.com/low_vision/floaters_flashes/images/2smallani.gif

argh nebbishy people

"My daughter has come home from her year in Japan and I have all these squiggles in front of my eyes when I look at her."

Caddyshack has philosophical implications as well.

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

http://sseizure.ytmnd.com/

argh nebbishy people

-- dan m, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:45 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Just to continue to bitch for a minute, a coworker of mine is stuck with some file problems, and instead of going the sure-fire, low-impact route of getting new files, he is hemming and hawing and being all indecisive, which is starting to cut into my time and resources... and making me BATSHIT INSANE.

What kind of file problems?

Images that may or may not be f-ed up in a number of ways.

I have been making smoothies lately. The first one I made was mango/banana/OJ and was probably too thick. Not enough OJ, in retrospect. The second was raspberry/blueberry/white peach/OJ and was pretty good, although the peach wasn't ripe enough. But the one I made last night, strawberry/banana/OJ, was the best. An unfuckwithable combination.

Toss in some peanut butter, srsly!

That never occurred to me!

Also recommended: milk, plain yogurt.

It's a great excuse to buy fresh fruit that I'd forget about in the fridge otherwise.

See, I was thinking these kind of files
http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pictures/standard/xqx01486.jpg.

Throw some skim milk or yog into those smoothies!xposts

It's also fun to have some frozen fruit on hand for said smoothies (or to throw in muffins).

MUFFIN SMOOTHIE

Wasn't someone on ILX talking about a chocolate-cake smoothie recently?

you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on the muffin

Reminds me of the time at Perkins that some of my bandmates convinced the waitress to make a chocolate shake and then grind up a chocolate chocolate chip muffin into said shake.

xpost!

Oh yeah: Milkshake/Smoothie Suggestions

man, i just ate this quiche from trader joe's that was good but small and now i'm hungry still AND it was pretty high in the ol' calorie department.

I made curry lentils but I put them in a vintage glass bowl that I had at my desk and it broke in the microwave. So not only did I have to throw away a beautiful bowl that was a gift I can't replace, but my lentils turned out to have tiny shards of glass in them so I can't even eat them out of a paper cup. And of course I discovered the tiny shards of glass with the roof of my mouth so now I have a cut.

I hate today.

This article put a smile back on my face, even though it's not terribly sophisticated or terribly well-written. I just like the "just plain folks"ness of it, and the fact that a SMRT message reached exactly the person who needed it most (as opposed to the already-converted fringe).

http://practicalpedal.com/summer2007/daughter.html

Ow, that sucks three ways, Laurel.

Where'd they put Trader Joes in Mpls., Kelsey?

I'm eating some roasted eggplant/artichoke/tomato/onion stew WITH INJERA.

I had leftovers from the awesome dinner Sarah made last night: couscous with vegetables and craisins and chickpeas, and homemade harissa to put on top. I also had a faux-turkey sandwich.

I had leftover chicken makhani last night and it was awesome.

I had a bunch of carrots.

chicken makhani is the best ever.

Way better than carrots.

in India they give more things the makhani treatment than they tend to in Indian restaurants here. I don't much like dal, but I unwittingly ordered a dish that involved dal makhani when I was in Jaipur. it was AMAZING.

I had a haircut for lunch, and now I am going to go see if I left any food in the fridge. I think there's a yogurt in there with my name on it.

xpost oh indian food, how I would eat all of you right now

That sounds great. I feel pretty healthy when I'm eating makhani, but it's probably got a lot of butter & cream in it, right?

it's not really healthy. makhani means butter, basically. if you're making it yourself, you can make it reasonable, but in a restaurant...you don't want to know how much butter's in it.

but whatevs. just don't eat it three times a day, you know? life's too short to go without makhani.

"makhan" in hindi/urdu means "butter"

Ahh, it would, wouldn't it. :>

I don't think I've ever had makhani. I hadn't even heard of it until just now. Do vegetarian dishes ever get the makhani treatment?

GO TO INDIA, JAYMC. DAL MAKHANI=TO DIE FOR

but yeah, I can't recall ever having seen vegetables given the makhani treatment in the US.

I also think dal makhani is maybe a rajasthani specialty? so maybe if you found a rajasthani-owned restaurant?

seriously. I had no idea dal could be such a pleasurable experience.

Ain't nothin' wrong with a good dal.

EZ: st. louis park. there's also one in coon rapids, i believe, but i have never been to that one.

so sorry about your glass mouth, laurel!! yikes!

good dal gone bad

leaf & I are toying with going to india next summer. we're trying to plan a post-bar/pre-job trip. it's probably the last time we'll be able to go anywhere for any significant amount of time.