TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

I have been invited to become a Twit-ter-er.  Now, as you know, I am shirtless here and therefore am not opposed to this whole social internet thingy-mabob-doohickey.  however, I aleady 360, facebook, tbd, myspace and bodyspace.  Not to mention ultimate guitar, bassmasta and youtube.  I think one more profile might be tooooo much.

The flip side is, if I get in now, TDetroit might still be available.

Then there is - who wants to be a twit.

But of course I might meet new people.

Or I might get confused.

then again, everyone I meet there will just become friends in all the other places, so it will be like a progressive party

but I have to upload a whole new set of images.

To Twit, or not to Twit.

I started my pushup workout.  There I am with my feet on the chair, the perfect pushups in my hands, I get to number 13, and here comes the dog. 

She’s right in my face.  these pushups are hard enough without bobbing your head.  So at 19, I let her have it. 

bitch didn’t care one bit.  she tried to kiss me.  GET OUT OF HERE!!!

I know it’s around here somewhere.  Let’s see, I was making up Easter baskets, and I put them out.  Then I did a pushup workout.  then I made the 14 year old go to sleep - I only had to tell him 5 times.

Now I am on the computer, bb.coming, and facebooking and tbd-ing, and looking for a romantic location in Bloomfield Hills for a coffee date, where they will also let a guitar player in for a few minutes.  Or a place to get coffee and a glass of fine wine.  hmmm…. there is such a place, but…. she doesn’t like Italian food.  this is very complicated. 

Ok, using Goggle Earth, I think I can do this.  I will have to use two places.  Starbucks (coffee for people who don’t know what coffee is supposed to taste like), and my cousin’s bar up the street. 

Now, to decide how this will work.  I think the bar first and the coffee for a night cap.  Or the other way around.  does anyone out there remember how to date?  Hell, I wasn’t good at it when I was 20, I am lost at 41.  I need to make some phone calls…

How much processing is too much?  i don’t mind pasteurized milk, on the whole it is a good thing.  Ture it does get rid of some enzymes that are important, but I am Italian and I eat enough cheese to pick those up.  I am not a fan of juice concetrates.  I know it is the same, just dehydrated for transport and rehydrated locally for sale.  It just seems that I should be able to get the juice without any funny stuff.  Don’t get me started on the OJ pulp.  There’s, no pulp (only good for vodka), some pulp (what?) and high pulp.  what about regular pulp - as in we squeezed the juice and put it in a jar.  does anyone even know what real OJ looks and tastes like anymore?  This whole shell game with the pulp, it’s like 3-card Monty.

 Then there is the other end of the spectrum.  HFCS.  Yes, there are commericals telling us it is just sugar or honey.  Really?  There is one huge difference.  It is estimated that each of us will have cancer in our bodies 10 times during our life time.  Usually we will kill with our own body.  Here is the secret, HFCS is pure cancer food.  It is the one thing cancer craves, it is the ingredient that changes cancer from a passing ailment dealt with by your body without your knowing about it, to a deadly disease requiring chemotherapy or worse.  How "the same" can it be?  Cancer loves pure concentrated sugar.  True, cancer can get that from white sugar too, but in the average food stuff, there is less white sugar than when you use HFCS.

What about white bread?  They tell us the bleach is washed off of the wheat after the wheat turns white.  OK.  so let me get this straight, you dehydrate the grain, rehydrate - not with water, but with a deadly chemical - and then dehydrate again, all with no residue.  Oh, and don’t let me forget, this process was invented using 1920’s technology - a far more advanced technology than our current 2000’s tech.  I simply do not believe it!

How difficult would it be to just turn off the bleach switch and not do that part of the process.  True, the bleach guy would lose his job, but I am ok with that.  And why does it cost more to get unbleached flour.  I would think firing the bleach guy, not having to maintain the bleaching machine, not buying the bleach, not paying the insurance costs of having a hazmat chem on site, not conducting bleaching quality testing, not waxhing the bleach out of the wheat, would all be cost savings that translate to the price of the procuct.  But then again what do I know, I am just an economist.

 Well, running long here, I could bring my laptop to the grocery store, but BB.com doesn’t have the servers to handle that long of a blog.

I was walking past my TV, there was a commercial for the chopper thingy.  You put thihngs on a cutting board and put this thingy over top and then push down and it chops.

Anyway, for a topping for icecream, he put peanuts on the cutting board and said, "your going to love my nuts."  …. Now, I don’t want to be accused of having a dirty mind, even thought I do, but it seems to me the writers of the commercial should have predicted that someone like me would see the commercial. 

I won’t be buying that thing.

Some other favorites on the list of things men shouldn’t say:

-2 men on a green, one is lining up a put and the other says, "don’t come inside me." 

-mom says, "Johnny where were you?"  Johnny says, "I was playing with my stick."

Great!  Another problem.

My mother in law is staying here this week to help me with the kids while I transition to the new firm.  she heard a noise at 5 am.  Kind of a wining noise she said.  I thought it was my water softener.

she called me a little later and told me we had no water.  so I told her where to find the repairman’s number for the softener.  He came over and told her it was not the softener, but he turned it off to protect it.

So I told her how to find the well driller’s number.  He came over.  It turns out the saddle came unseated and I’ve been pumping water into the swamp via underground railroad for a few months.  In the spring there would have been a sink hole in the yard.  He dug up the yard and fixed the problem.  the well was flooded with dirt, so he had to pull the pump and clean it.  Then he bleached the well and here we are - no water for 2 days, a garden hose running in the frozen night to empty the bleach, and $865 poorer.

tomorrow, we have to run the hose for a few more hours until there is no longer a bleach smell.  then run it a little longer.  then maybe thursday we can drink the water.

We could drink it now, but bleach makes you have diarhea.  no one wants that.

hmmm.  they put bleach in white flour.   hmmmm

On another site, someone told me about using cranberry juice for protein shakes.  sounds good to me.   It’s just another flavor to try, and those poor saps in MA who don’t know much about anything else, need the jobs.

So, at the grocery store today, I’m looking for the cranberry juice.  They have organic - not necessary, just an excuse to charge a higher price, plus it’s probably not organic anyway.  They have cran-apple and various other - really, I am looking for just cranberry.  They have cranberry fro concentrate - now, if I wanted diluted cranberry juice, I would have gone to the store looking for diluted cranberry juice.  They do not have plain cranberry juice.

It’s the same problem with Orange juice.  High pulp, some pulp, no pulp.  What about just squeezing an orange into the carton?  No messing with it.  Is it too much to ask to get just orange juice with no modificcations?  Just freakin’ juice.  Squeeze the damn things and drink it.  And then we all walk around asking why there are so many sick people.  Because no one eats food.  It’s all processed with something.  What a pain in the ass it is to get just food.  Why can’t people with no taste buds be the ones to suffer, and I get to have my normal food?

so I had to start an account on Youtube.  Can you believe some dillweed stole my moniker?   I had to defend myself by calling myself RealTDetroit. 

Who steals someone else handle?  what kind of low down dirty dog that?  What if I changed my name to Hacksqaut?  Geesh!  What the world coming to.

Oh wait, what if I went around telling people I am Barak Obama?  Then I could tax everyone and get all the money.  hmmmmm.  A plan is forming.

You would thnk sitting around all day eating carbs and watching football would cause a person to gain weight.

That’s it!  I am starting on a diet of strick potato chips.  Morning noon and night.  6 meals a day, just chips with salt, keetle chips too.  6000 cals a day.  artery clogging trans fats.

Unless someone says something inspirational to talk me off the ledge…

since vacation, I have had more complications from family and work then ever in my life.  this has been a real pain.

I am getting it done at home though.  lot’s of pushups and situps. 

work, we’ll let’s see.  GM is making retirement offers to eveyone with a pulse, and everyone wants a financial plan to see if those numbers work.  the stock market is haywire - nothing makes sense.  and you should see the bond prices.  the junk bonds are paying 5% and the investment grade are paying 8-20%.  it’s an easy choice, but then I have to check every account to see who needs the bonds.  so i work 24/7

 my accountant just e-mailed me to get some sleep.  what?!?  sleep?!?  what’s that?  pass teh espresso and get out of the way…

tried to go to the gym today, but client appointment got in the way.  can’t go tomorrow meeting until late.  I am not sure where I am supposed to be on Thursday.  Maybe Friday.  Poswsibly Saturday.  Definitely not Sunday.  to big events that day.  oh crap!  I have to present 3 scholarships.  I hope I still have the certificate paper to print the awards.  I hope the club treasurer wrote the checks.  I hope the club president remembered he is not the committee chair and therefore he (and his ego) is not presenting the awards, I am. 

I think I need another shot of espresso, my thoughts are all scrambled…  brb