Hi. It's been a while.

 I fell into a deep, deep hole of consuming alcohol to alleviate my boredom. Luckily, I didn't get into any trouble. I'm struggling to climb out. I'm still here. I'm trying to learn how to cook my own healthier food. My loneliness and my social anxiety are at odds as usual. I finally have the best job ever in my life and I'm close to retirement in just a few years. I can't make any promises. Have a good weekend.

Disinformation or Information

 Deception is a key element of disinformation. There are those among us who can't recognize disinformation because they were not taught how to discern the difference, but eventually find their way to the truth by developing critical thinking skills.

Critical thinking requires that one does not take information at face value. What is "face value?"

"Face value" is measured by who produces the information, what anecdotes or stories support the information, and finally, evidence that supports the information.

Unfortunately, that last part, evidence, is ignored by a roughly one-third of the population of not just the United States, but the whole world. Aristotle called it the "modes of persuasion," Logos meaning logic, the actual evidence that supports the argument, Pathos meaning emotions and feelings, where the story told is relatable to the audience, and Ethos meaning credibility and ethics, or the importance and popularity of the person telling the story.

That last part is especially important, because for a large portion of our population, it doesn't take much to become popular. All it takes, apparently, is the willingness to sacrifice one's own legitimate reputation to attack fellow intellectuals. To tell lies that you know will ruin your reputation among fellow elites. But they won't call you out. They will applaud your victory over the minds of Simpletons and Troglodytes.

These days it only requires that you claim you have files that show you are right, without even producing them for anyone to see. It's hard to believe that people are really like this, yet there are those who believe that the old films like 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' are secret coded entertainment for child sexual grooming.

Films back in the day were meant to entice film studio executives to fund projects. The couch casting must have been phenomenal.

It's all totally fake. There is nothing here but fools. Disinformation affects only them. The most dangerous among us make themselves visible to society to criticize, and eventually arrest for crimes of civil rights.

The State of the World

 I'll start with the punch-line: The world isn't what you think it is. 

Reality includes an enormous variety of matter and energy that humans are incapable of perceiving and / or processing.

Your perception of the world is biologically limited only to what your species needed to survive. Some animals need more, like flying animals that must process their surroundings much faster, some animals need less, like bottom-dwelling ocean scavengers.

Your perception of the world is also filtered by your neurology, hormones and other brain chemistry. Limitations of your neurobiology determine how you make inferences and assumptions about people, surroundings and situations.

The subtle differences in our neurobiology between each-other is what makes our personalities.

What is considered a "normal" range or spectrum of behavior is managed in two ways: Natural social development, I will refer to as "Natural Morality," and arbitrarily mandated morality of edicts I will refer to as "Arbitrary Morality."

OUR THREE SOCIETIES

If a truly normal range of naturally moral behavior dominated our society, the word "law" would not exist.

Unfortunately we live in a three-tiered civilization, one of which should be incarcerated.

• NATURAL MORALITY
• EMPATHY, LOGIC, FAIRNESS
• HIGH EMOTIONAL SELF-AWARENESS
• ABSTRACT REASONING WITH TIME, EFFECT & EFFICIENCY
• HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE
• HIGHLY ACCURATE INTUITIVENESS
• MIX OF NATURAL AND ARBITRARY MORALITY
• MODERATE GREGARIOUSNESS AND TOLERANCE
• COGNITIVE BIASES AND LOGICAL FALLACIES
• MODERATE SELF-AWARENESS BUT EMOTIONAL
• SOMEWHAT SKEPTICALRIGID, ARBITRARY MORALITY
• DOGMATIC UNREALISTIC BELIEFS
• EXTREMELY DISTORTED PERCEPTION OF REALITY
• EXTREMELY VULNERABLE GREGARIOUSNESS
• HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO CULT MANIPULATION TACTICS
• RESORTS TO BIGOTRY TO MAINTAIN SELF-ESTEEM

The bottom tier was once considered Paranoid Schizophrenic and were incarcerated and treated. They've since been released and exploited by the mass media for profit and politicians for votes.

They are manipulated by Dark Triad Personalities - self-serving megalomaniacal narcissists. Cult leaders, politicians, preachers, anyone seeking a permanent throne of power over anything, even a book club.

They are driven by such political rhetoric as "Take back America" and in the attempted process on January 6, 2021, nearly destroyed the U.S. Constitution's authority and destroyed Democracy, the very thing they are constantly told to be afraid of losing.

Covid-19 Propaganda

I can't stand by and watch the gullible fall for this B.S. floating around on Twitter, so I have to put this to rest once-and-for-all.

Reported on Marc 31, 2020, Mitch McConnell, according to Salon.com "blames delayed coronavirus response by President Trump on impeachment." Trump supporters are jumping on this bandwagon by connecting Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's work on the impeachment proceedings, claiming that Covid-19 arrived in the U.S. on January 21, 2020, according to ABC News, but the World Health Organization only issued a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" on January 30, 2020. On February 28, Politico reported:

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to cast the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a liberal conspiracy intended to undermine his first term, lumping it alongside impeachment and the Mueller investigation.

On March 9, 2020, the World Health Organization tweeted:

"Now that the #coronavirus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real. But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled. The bottom line is: we are not at the mercy of this virus"-
@DrTedros

 #COVID19"

NPR reported that it was officially a pandemic on March 11, 2020. 

The New England Journal of Medicine documented the timeline of the first U.S. case in great detail. The patient arrived at a Snohomish County, Washington urgent care clinic on January 19, 2020 but he disclosed that he had been coughing for the previous 4 days, following his flight from Wuhan, China. All the people on that flight plus everyone including the attending health care providers were potentially exposed.

Mitch McConnell's claims about the impeachment being the culprit behind the slow response to the pandemic is not enough to cover up the fact that the Trump administration disbanded the U.S. Pandenic Response Team in 2018 and then according to Business Insider on February 25, 2020: "Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak"

Adapting to Springfield

After four years living in the Puget Sound area north of Seattle and moving back to Springfield, I had a whole new appreciation for the sparse population of the area, the clean air and light traffic. That was in October of 2016.

Now it's the end of April, 2019 and I find myself once again talking out loud (not yet yelling) to other drivers on Wabash, MacArthur and around town, as they linger too long at green lights, fail to use their turn signals, decide to turn left from a parking lots onto busy four-lane streets with no traffic lights, hesitate to merge into my lane in front of me until I'm forced to almost stop even though they have plenty of space, and so on. It seems my memories of near-death experiences and traffic jams on Interstate 5 along Puget Sound and through downtown Seattle are fading from memory.

My health

No eggs or bread of any kind for breakfast
anymore. It should have been like this
for my whole life.

I had my annual checkup last week and things seem to be going about average for me. My test results are permanently posted in the upper left corner of my blog page, but here's a link anyway.

Within the docs there are links to articles that explain what each particular test concerns.

• My A1C was 2 points over the top margin for normal.
• Vitamin D was low by 4.2 ng/mL
• Glucose was 5 mg/dL over the top margin for normal.
• HDL Cholesterol was 1 mg/dL below the bottom margin for normal
• LDL Cholesterol was 2 mg/dL above the top margin for normal
• RBC (red blood cell) count was low by 0.09 
• HGB (hemoglobin) count was low by 0.3 g/dL
• MCHC corpuscular hemoglobin concentration) was low by 0.4 g/dL

So this means I'm Anemic with Pre-Diabetes. I was told as a child that I had an iron deficiency. It was also revealed to me after I was forty years old that when I was a child a doctor told my mother that I might have Celiac disease. If it was the case it was never treated. Now I know why my stomach hurt and I was so sleepy during my first two hours of school each morning.

I was always falling asleep in class. It was just written off as being lazy and shiftless. My whole f*ing life spent in a fog of deficiency. It's no wonder I never achieved much. If your kids complain at school of being hungry and very tired despite having a large breakfast. They need medical attention.

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Follow-up on 01/27/2019: I started taking Iron supplements and noticed a change right away. My energy level is more stable now and does not crash right after eating a meal. I'm no longer feeling exhausted all the time and climbing the stairs doesn't leave me tired either.

Irritation this morning 12/21/2018

My left knee swelled up over the last couple of days. It does that every few months. It's from an old vollyball injury I got while I was unemployed in 2002 with no insurance. Now my left leg bends out at the knee slightly. Anyway, it kept me awake most of last night and I was feeling irritable while reading the State Journal-Register this morning. I left a few comments there.

I'm especially annoyed that the main-stream news media barely mentioned that the 2018 Farm Bill has legalized Industrial Hemp with less than 0.3% THC across the nation.

We may switch to growing hemp instead of our usual corn and soybeans, so I bought thousands of shares of stock in various micro-cap hemp startup companies, which cultivate, process, and produce products such as cloth, paper, biodegradable plastic bags, CBD oil, bio-diesel fuel and even hemp-based car parts.

Despite the markets falling, these stocks are buoying themselves. Some are even climbing because they represent a whole new economy. This crop has the potential to save the American Farmer.

Senators Ron Wyden and Mitch McConnell have been working on legalizing hemp nationwide since last April. I didn't hear about this until the farm manager mentioned the possibility in October,

I'm hoping CBD oil will help my knee, my gout, my psoriasis, and my anxiety.

Typical Me Late Invention Idea

Suddenly it dawns on me, of course in the twilight dusk of FM radio, to come up with an idea for a car radio that continuously scans for signals in the background and then automatically programs presets.

There might already be something like it but I can't find it. I got the idea while driving through Michigan. Now I just listen to podcasts.

Home cooked meal

I'm cooking at home to save my money and my health. I made the following yesterday and it turned out pretty good.

1. Preheat the oven to 425°
2. Cutting board
3. Large mixing bowl
4. Press-n-Seal
5. Aluminum Foil
6. Large casserole dish
7. Kitchen knife
8. Measuring Spoons
9. Small bowl to mix the following seasonings:
1. 1/2 teaspoon of Oregano
2. 1/4 teaspoon of Garlic Powder
3. 1/4 teaspoon of Coriander
4. 1/4 teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper
5. 1/4 teaspoon of Black Pepper
6. 1/4 teaspoon of Salt
10. Cut into bite size pieces, the following:
1. 5 stalks of Celery
2. 1 large Onion of your choice
3. 1 large bell pepper
11. Add a medium container of sliced mushrooms
12. Add a regular bag of Coleslaw Mix
13. Add 2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
14. Add 2 Tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar
15. Add the seasonings
16. Cover the bowl with Press-n-Seal and tumble the ingredients in the bowl until everything is evenly covered with the seasonings. By turning the bowl on it's side and gently spinning it, the contents actually seem to mix more thoroughly than by stirring.
17. Coat a large casserole dish with a thin layer of Olive oil. I usually drop in a Tablespoon and spread it around with a paper towel.
18. Pour the contents of the mixing bowl into the casserole dish.
19. Cover with foil
20. Bake for 30 minutes.
21. Enjoy hot or cold. I like to add Chow Mein noodles.

Letter Published in SJ-R

Riding the Lost Bridge Trail on 10/28/2018
A day of extreme wind across Central Illinois

Finally, my letter made it to the online edition last night so it should make it in tomorrows paper, but here's the link: http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20181027/letter-questionable-social-media-crackdown-on-propaganda

The mug that came with the Magic Bullet mixer was exactly the correct size to make a full portion of Hidden Valley Ranch butter milk dressing with the powder mix. That worked out. No need for a mixing bowl or hand mixer.

The bike ride to Rochester was nice but windy. The leaves seemed to change color by the minute. Then a lunch of Crustless Quiche and Home Fries at the Lighthouse Restaurant.

I'm going to start making quiche again. The last time was in Old Mission about 25 years ago or more. I usually start with a basic recipe like this one on The Food Network, but then I take it off the rails with my favorite pizza toppings instead of the usual ingredients. I wonder what shrimp or crab meat with mushrooms might taste like in a quiche?

Autumn Thoughts

As the leaves turn and the air begins to bite, I'm stirred by memories of Halloween masks dripping with freezing condensation from my breath as I reach out for candy. My depth perception disabled because of the poorly fitting mask, I knocked the bowl out of the old woman's hands. No explanation mattered, everyone around me assumed I was being greedy.

That was over forty five years ago, yet it's one of the few memories I have from my childhood. It seems our hormones serve as connections to the memories we keep. I was blessed with chronic anxiety, probably from a shortage of dopamine receptors, or dopamine, I'm not sure which, so the memories of things good quickly sink into oblivion, unlike the oily negative experiences.

My most recent bicycle ride along the Lost Bridge Trail was pleasant, I met another distance cousin connected through Ancestry.com. We always stop at the Light House restaurant for brunch in Rochester then head back to Springfield.

The ride itself was harder than usual. It was cold and I noticed on the trail before me, moss was gradually encroaching from the sides, cracks became more pronounced and more leaves and twigs were obscuring the pavement. Ahead in the distance, a Coyote limped onto the trail and saw us approaching and limped back toward the trail side facing the highway, disappearing in the thick brush.

The only sounds on the trail that day were cars rushing by on the nearby highway, the clicking of my bike and the cold air rushing passed my ears. My mind cleared for a moment and the realization of my crushing loneliness flooded in. It's just my hormones again. It's not anybody else's fault.

When green vanishes from the landscape, leaving endless jagged, leafless branches in hues of brown and black, howling against a fast, slate-colored sky, the snow becomes pocked with foot steps, dog poop and soot from traffic; icy, muddy sludge fills my shoes from doorways and pot-holed parking lots. I'll look up and see people appearing to be enjoying something called "holiday spirit."

Those smiling, laughing faces engulfed in their opulence, showing me what I can't afford, reminding me how much of a failure I am for not being able to afford the best Christmas gifts, the newest car, the biggest house, or literally my own place to live.

Ancestry DNA Update

Click on the image to enlarge it.

My DNA has been processed at Ancestry.com. It appears the closest relative I have is a either a first or second cousin who actually participated in Ancestry's DNA analysis. There might be more out there.

According to Ancestry, I have thousands of close or distant cousins. My genetic heritage is mostly centered on north western Europe and England, with a little Ghana and Ivory Coast.

I messaged my closest relative once. I'm not really expecting to hear back from her, but I did get a message from three other people, one of whom I've already been cycling with for just over a year.

Ancestry has a family tree app, but since I was adopted under seal, I have no way of knowing who my genetic parents are. The fact that I was given up at birth in secrecy would bring embarrassment to them and probably anyone else within two degrees of separation.

I shouldn't expect to hear from close relatives but I'm not going to judge them for the circumstances of my conception. At least I wasn't aborted. I'm just glad I was at least adopted.

Ancestry DNA Test Sample Received

Ancestry DNA received my sample yesterday. I should know in about a month, my true origin. I was adopted as an infant and it was a closed adoption, so my race is a complete mystery, other than of course the way strangers treat me. Apparently I don't really make a great first impression.

My Attitude and The Gallary of Grim News

The Gallary of Grim News: Progressive?

Since 2003 I've been following progressive media. They don't hesitate to report on the real issues that the main-stream media ignore at the behest of their corporate masters. You can find them on my Sources Page under "Alternative Media."

If your life is going well and you have achieved the American Dream, there's a chance you might not keep it for very long. Most of us have already lost.

I hear that my only recourse legally is voting, but I also hear that voting has been rigged. I hear the call for rallies and protests, but rallies and protests are met with violent opposition and police action.

I hear that outspoken activists get death threats and are potentially blacklisted from employment opportunities. I hear about all the things corporations get away with at the expense of their own workers and the taxpayers. I hear how politicians are legally bribed. I hear about possible threats to protected classes of people.

All I can do is cast a vote, crawl into a hole and pray. Listening to these people fills me with a sense of hopelessness. I was being ground into the dirt, but then I realized something. These people make a living doing what they do. They have an incentive to make things seem as bad as possible, not necessarily as bad as things really are.

They may be telling the truth, but are they exaggerating? Is most of it hyperbole? Do they spend as much time reporting the facts as they do speculating about the outcome? Not really. Many of them make all manner of extrapolation.

I'm cutting myself off from this clutch of Chicken Little Lefties, but I'm not going to join the Pollyannas on the right either. How many times over the last decade has some politician claimed there was a constitutional crisis or an eminent economic collapse? Too many for me to listen anymore.

Learned helplessness and civic participation

When I wrote my letter to the editor at sj-r.com I was sitting at my computer, typing it up like I do when I post on social media. It felt less serious and dour while I was typing it than when I saw it printed in the actual newspaper.

It struck such a blow to my own expectations of our political system, I feel as if I planted seeds of discord that would evaporate any motivation for civic participation. This is what I get for paying too much attention to politics in the news. So do I blame the news media?

I'm beginning to realize the old saying "don't kill the messenger" points toward the tendency for humans to attribute feelings of helplessness and fear onto people who talk about negative situations all the time, without balancing their contributions with any solutions or positive outcomes.

In this case, I'm that guy: Buzz Killington.

When he hear enough bad news from the same sources, we tend to get triggered into a sense of helplessness and hopelessness when we hear or see the mere presence of those sources. It's a form of Operant Conditioning. Sometimes called Misattribution of Arousal.

It becomes second nature to be angry at the news media, because their subjects are too far removed from our reach both physically and intellectually to do anything about it except vote, but voting isn't even a real choice, because as Donna Brazile best tweeted "We are still in the room and very much capable of setting the menu."

The frustration is real, but is it rightly placed on the media? They are supplying us with information so we can be educated voters, but what difference is that going to make? 

 

Why do I surround myself with such negativity?

I stopped watching television in 2012 with the exception of Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, PBS News Hour and BBC World News. But since early June I stopped watching that as well.

Now I choose my news by following specific journalists on Twitter, subscribing online to the local newspaper, browsing Google and Reddit news feeds. I follow alternative news some like to call fake news, but is still somewhat factual but distorted, with hyperbolic misleading headlines, and a lot of opinions filled with visceral hatred, name-calling and parroting of talking points from circular-citing ideological echo-chambers.

I just discoverd https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ which checks the bias of a news source, not only for left or right bias, but also pseudo-science and conspiracy prone sites. I found it while googling Zero Hedge, which according to Media Bias Fact Check is high on the conspiracy meter. But this is really beside my question: Why do I gravitate to these sources?

Validation, but not really validation of my own preconceived beliefs, but validation of my hormone imbalance which creates chronic anxiety. I'm literally searching outside myself for reasons for why I feel the way I do.

What happens inside me emotionally is in me, and not caused by anything outside myself. So when I try to enjoy myself with a distraction like Reddit's r/aww, gradually I get a gnawing feeling that I'm missing something important, which seems normal on the surface, but I still get the feeling that the news I browse through every day is a distraction from what's really going on behind the scenes.

At this point some would say it's the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati,  the Koch Brothers, or George Soros, Anonymous, Guccifer 2.0, or whom ever.

Every day in fictional media and in advertising we see lifestyles and relationships that are perfect, and unreachable. A near constant reminder of our lower social status. When we see other people who we believe to be lesser than us, enjoying something we cannot, it induces a silent rage. But remember what I wrote in paragraph 5. Some people are on a hormonal edge that can be triggered by outside stimuli, especially if they lack the knowledge to understand and articulate their own emotions.

This is why we need mental health or basic psychology education earlier in school.

Office Politics and Extra Training in the Navy.

One of my shortcomings is that I don't like to brag, so when I'm in a job interview I feel like I'm bragging. But special qualifications need to be reported here.

When I was in the Navy, there was a period before each deployment overseas where we train in the Caribbean, stopping occasionally in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. It's very hot down there, but the sunrises are spectacular.

We were only there for a week when I received orders to fly from GTMO to Norfolk, VA, for a special training assignment. Everyone was pissed off that I got to fly out of there early. I felt some guilt.

Because I was the Deck Department Yeoman, my duties included maintaining 1st and 2nd Division's department safety training records, so now they designated me the Deck Department Safety Training Petty Officer. I was schooled in Navy Occupational Safety and Health (NAVOSH) with several other personnel from various departments.

We learned how to inspect spaces for safety violations, proper tag-out procedures for equipment, how to use Material Safety Data Sheets, and more I can't remember now because it was twenty eight years ago.

But, what really prepared me for the life after my military services was the EEOC training. We were instructed about discrimination in the workplace, including what constitutes a toxic work environment, sexual harassment, and racism.

You see, unlike a few people I know, I'm keenly aware of people's attempts to bait me into a situation where I might be accused of sexual harassment. All those lurid questions in an attempt to elicit a scandalous response, the loud, lurid conversations near me, in an attempt to draw me into frank, explicit discussions I might later regret, had I fell for it. Yeah, I know office politics.

This is where I was then designated the Deck Department Command Assessment Team member. You wouldn't know it from looking at my DD-214, but if they documented every little responsibility, every service member's record would be enormous.

I am an ally for the #MeToo movement, and and ally of the #LBGTQ. #BlackLivesMatter, Why? Because I'm a #Beta, #Incel.

Oh, did you just get a queasy feeling in your gut?

Big shoes I probably shouldn't try to fill

Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Illinois College, The Springfield Civil War Round Table and Shewe Library rededicated the P.B. Thomas Civil War Memorial Library collection.

Months went into planning for this and I was nervous about giving my own three minute speech in front of my family members, friends, and historians.

My grandfather had the honor of giving the commencement speech at my mother's school, Ferry Hall Prep. in Lake Forest, Illinois, in June of 1953. At last week's library re-dedication, my mother read from that speech. Everyone I spoke to agreed that those words still resonate to this day.

When I was in elementary school and middle school, years before there were such things as personal computers or cell pones, the rote method of learning names, events and dates, was so tedious it made my head hurt. Most of my teachers in District 186 were so close to retirement they were mostly mentally checked-out anyway. So, I developed an aversion to history education.

I never met my grandfather, Benjamin Thomas. Not until long after high school I finally learned the significance of Ben Thomas' impact on the history of Abraham Lincoln. I still haven't read his books.

Yet, here I am, writing pitiful blogs, blurbs, vlogs, tweets and memes. Nothing worth fawning over.

Quest for Food

The Light House Restaurant, Rochester, IL

Yesterday I crashed hard after breakfast. I ate two pieces of whole wheat toast and drank some Orange juice. I think it was the carbohydrates, so this morning I had some unsweetened juice concentrate I found at the Vitamin Shoppe, some Beet Root, Tart Cherry, and Cranberry. Then I followed up with coffee and four slices of Bacon.

I'm sitting here now, a half-hour later, and I'm not feeling the weight of the world washing over me. That wave of inexplicable exhaustion, like an invisible weighted blanket. Maybe too soon? Maybe other circumstances?

According to Nutritiondata.self.com, bacon has a one star rating when it comes to weight loss, but only a two star rating for weight gain. One might think they should be diametrically opposed. 

I heard recently that dietary fat and cholesterol were given a false bad rap by the sugar industry. I did a little research and posted the links at the Cringing Consumer blog.

So, this morning before I go workout at Planet Fitness, I'm looking up foods that are highest in Protein and Potassium, and lowest in total Carbohydrates and total Fat. Here are just a few of the "999 results:" Spoiler alert: Mostly Pork, Poultry and Dairy with fresh fruits and vegetables.

• Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, raw 
• Cheese, mozzarella, nonfat 
• CAMPBELL Soup Company, V8 Vegetable Juice, Lemon Twist V8 
• Watercress, raw 
• Margarine, vegetable oil spread, stick/tub/bottle, 60% fat 
• Cowpeas, leafy tips, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt 
• Cabbage, chinese (pak-choi), cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 
• Cabbage, common, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt 
• Radishes, raw 
• Tomatoes, red, ripe, cooked 
• Beef, cured, pastrami 
• Pickles, cucumber, dill, low sodium 
• Peppers, sweet, green, raw 

The trouble is with making sandwiches, pizza or including pasta. Healthline.com suggests there are ten viable substitutes for "conventional wheat bread," I'm going to look at the Carbohydrate content of each to see which is the lowest. I'll just look at the three most easily accessible:

• Corn Tortillas - 8 grams of carbohydrates. Tend to fall apart raw, shatter, 3.5 star rating for weight gain.
• Rye Breat - Nope. 15 grams of carbohydrates.
• Sourdough Bread - Nope - 18 grams of carbohydrates

Normal wheat bread has 12 grams of carbs, and white bread has 23 grams if carbohydrates!
Then there is Rice Bran Bread with 12 grams of carbs.

It's been over an hour and I still feel pretty darn good.

Meanwhile

While I wait to hear back from potential employers, I do some minor odd jobs to fill the void. Cleaning a basement following a sewer backup, for instance.

I'm currently drawing up designs for a multi-purpose closet system. It's been a few years since I used my 3D software, so I'm relearning things. I just upgraded, so I must learn more about new shading methods.