There are more microbes in your body than cells at any given time, they’re that plentiful. There are microbial colonies on the bottom of your mouth and colonies of completely different microbes on the roof of your mouth....they’re THAT specialized!

Hell, half the time it’s cheaper to buy a used physical book than it is to buy an ebook.

Do you ever put nails in your potato? Sometimes you can buy specially packaged “potato nails” but you can get a good-sized framing nail, wash it well, and it’ll be just as good for a fraction of the price. The nail heats up in the oven and cooks the inside of the potato faster. (Or is it all hooey?)

Now I can’t wait for a freezing cold Sunday afternoon in January to make this! Because really...this is exactly what you want on a freezing cold Sunday afternoon in January.

Friends tease me for still buying CDs, until some of them lost music from their collections because of licensing issues. Screw you, I have my backup!

I have a bottle of mushroom ketchup a friend gave me. That would probably give a good kick. Or even a few drops of mushroom soy sauce, which can be found at Asian grocery stores...

I used to use a recipe for tomato sauce that called for a single anchovy to be added while it cooked down; the anchovy would eventually disintegrate. But it did add to the flavor, rather impressively so, which surprised me when I left it out of one batch. I wonder how garlic and basil would do in that sauce above.…

I used to make my own tomato sauce, when I had a neighbor with overproducing tomato plants. I would peel and seed...but I would put the gel in a sieve over a bowl, press it out, and then add the resulting liquid to the sauce. Made a great sauce, I thought.

The same irony applies to Republicans who railed about Bill Clinton’s womanizing, me-too activities, and using his position of power to his advantage, but bend over backwards now to excuse (or ignore) Trump doing the exact same things. Especially the vocal Evangelical Christians who are now seen by over half the…

To be fair, it’s not as much as iceberg having “less nutrition” as it’s about having “basically zero” nutritional value. You get about as much nutrition by breathing. And an issue is that I’ve known people who basically eat iceberg lettuce salads and think, “Well, that’s my vegetable for the day.” And iceberg can be…

I rarely use EVOO, largely for the high smoke point that makes it unsuitable for sauteing (as noted elsewhere), but also because it’s so damn expensive.

Crunch is all iceberg has going for it. Research has shown it to be the least nutritious vegetable out there, consisting of cellulose and water. It’s pretty much worthless as a food item except for crunch. I haven’t bought iceberg in years. Sadly, it’s also the most popular vegetable in our country.

I keep a plastic grocery bag hanging from one of those peel-and-stick hooks in my kitchen, and stuff it with whatever plastic wrap/film that pops up. When it’s full, I take it with me to the grocery store. 

I have an array of old pickle jars that I use for storing in the fridge. Also for storing beans, rice, macaroni, etc. in the pantry. Glass jars are great.

Oh...and I need to add...he gave me grief for not being “focused” but also demanded that I “multitask” constantly. In that infamous performance appraisal he told me, in the same sentence, that I had to focus and multitask constantly and simultaneously. I tried to point out that they are mutually exclusive concepts,…

My horrible boss fired me, for BS reasons (someone told him I was heard being rude to someone on the phone....no discussion, no investigation, I was fired based on hearsay). I look back on it and considering the relentless negativity and hostility I got from management in my last couple of years there, it’s not crazy…

I should add....about 8 months after being fired from there, I got my foot in the door at a MAJOR corporation, that actually values older people. I started off as a contract employee but now am official full-time with benefits. They have a real HR department. I put up with a lot at that old job because I somehow…

My last job. The boss was someone I had actually been halfway friends with when I started, but as the years went by, he moved up the organization ladder and got a couple promotions. His authority went to his head and his personality changed.

I know a fellow whose girlfriend basically moved in when he wasn’t looking (he’s a little slow on the uptake sometimes). She basically moved in one thing after another and he never caught on until he realized she’d been around for over a week and he asked if she needed to go back to her place to take care of stuff.…

Anxious and fearful. Yeah, that’s me pretty much, when it comes to dating. I think I’ll crawl under my desk and sob now.