I never thought I’d say this, but thank God I’m allergic to sulfa drugs. I will never know what sulphur burps are like.
Jeep’s, I work at a hotel. If one of our kitchen guys had put plain hot water in one of the coffee urns, my GM’s head would spin around and there’d be a former kitchen guy with a boot up his ass. I cannot even believe someone would make such a dumbass mistake like that.
Not from a sulfa drug, from victoza - it is slowing down my digestion enough I am not getting my stomach to empty promptly and it is something about the protein breaking down from gastric juices and that causes the burps. Or so my doc tells me. sigh But on the plus side, I have lost 7 pounds in just under 2 months.
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Way back in the day place I worked would have one of the old 30 cup coffee perks that was specifically for tea water, coffee never went into it and it was labled for tea.
Can you take fiber with your medication? Psyllium husk fiber is natural and is very gentle.
This is definitely one of those cases. One day and it’s all down and everyone’s happy and no one was ever in any danger - the only reason you’re jumping through hoops at this point is pure and simple* bureaucracy. I think your Mr. Ethical Husband needed to just turn his head and not see what was going on for one day. 
*Bureaucracy is neither, of course.
Hey Flatlined - is it too late to offer it to a vol. fire company for training? That’s what we did with a ramshackle old building on our property. They sealed it up and used it for smoke training for a few days, then burned it down to the ground.
Dear co-worker,
You’re a native English-speaking, college educated adult. How the everloving fuck have you never learned to use punctuation marks?
I’ll give you a pass on semicolons and colons, but you insist on ending sentences with commas, dropping commas from places that need them, and you seem to think a double period in the middle of a sentence is a real thing.* You also don’t seem to understand that question marks end questions, not random statements.
I know it’s a weak rant, but I’m the one who has to turn your wall of text into something comprehensible.
*Are you trying to make an ellipsis? Those aren’t meant to be sprinkled in every time the mood seizes you.
I can get behind this rant in such a big way. I’m not even talking about my students, who have the writing skills of 12-year-old ESL students. I have several friends whose emails and/or posts are borderline incoherent due to an explosion of random punctuation.
At least I’m getting lots of “I told you so” points. I understand Bill’s point, and if we were trying to build something there, of course we would get all the permits and stuff. The main reason I want it gone is because I feel sorry for the neighbors.
I don’t think Tony paid his property taxes this year, he thought they should be lower because he doesn’t live there anymore so isn’t using tax payer resources. If he continues his tax protest by not paying for another 6 years, the state will end up with it. I’d just like to get that mess over with sooner.
This idea is so full of awesome that I’m going to call on Monday and ask about it. Thank you so much.
<snipped> Its a good thing you were out here helping me with the latest foster kittens when the murder happened.
I’ve had only one can of Diet Coke today. Only four cigarettes.
I’m ready to berserk.
If you pre-order pizzas to be ready at 5:30 they will be ready at 5:30.
Do not come at 5:20 and throw a massive fit, pacing back and forth, staring at us, demanding to know where your pizzas are.
They were ready at 5:30 on the dot. Sheesh lady. We want to be proud of that, not harangued.
I’m learning to tolerate it in emails because so many people are pecking on their phones to write a message, but when it’s in a Word document we’re supposed to make public my eye starts twitching.
flatlined, remind me- was that our regular foster kitten work, or our foster kitties for hospitalized orphans work?
I am one of those drivers who puts both hands on the wheel. 10 and 2. Not possible to hold a cell phone that way. I’m more wary of the person who holds the wheel with one hand and kinda slouches to the side to look at what they are texting/reading with the other hand. Now that’s suspicious.
Yup, and give the kid a cappuccino and a puppy next time. It’s on me.
It occurs to me to wonder if the Love of Your Life in his role of Evil Petro-Capitalist, has a public-facing position, which might lead to an unfair hue and cry, were he to be seen associating with an endeavor in which corner-cutting was takigng place.
Or, maybe he’s just so used to doing things by the book that it’s an ingrained habit with him.
Wait, I thought flatlined was giving away Red Bull and foster kittens. 
Sick and tired of being sick and tired. GI doesn’t work right and appetite is diminishing (have lost 11+ lbs in 4 weeks without trying), so tired I hurt at least part of most days, intermittent dizziness, etc., and if you’re not actively trying to die, the wheels of the medical establishment move quite slowly. My GP tried to reassure me by saying that GI problems are tough to diagnose and she had a patient who recently got a diagnosis after a year. I wanted to yell at her that if a freaking dog came into the teaching hospital with a GI problem, they would be offered the option of getting all the tests possible, up to and including exploratory laparoscopy, within a week, maybe two, for a tenth of the price. Sure, there are some wait-and-see things like diet trials that take time, but not a freaking year. Most of that time is not spent waiting for legitimate medical reasons, it is waiting for another appointment that takes several weeks to get, then waiting for a procedure that takes two months to schedule, or waiting because the insurance company won’t approve X unless you’ve done Z.
Aruvqan, I’ve done some reading on diet for GI dysmotility problems, figuring that I’d like to be able to eat sometime before the next presidential administration. Fiber (esp. soluble fiber), fat, and large meals slow stomach emptying. Liquids are better than solids, so some people are able to tolerate half and half in their coffee better than fat as part of a solid meal.
Bloody hell do I ever hate idiots.
I was chatting with a business owner last night who was interested in our software; we were discussing the starter package, and mid tier version. One of the main draw backs of the starter package is that it won’t track accounts payable. I explained to her that with this package, she wouldn’t be able to track her vendors and what she owed them.
She understood that part fine. Then she asked me to explain what tracking income and expenses meant.
This absolutely floored me. I literally had to explain to her that income was money people paid her, and that expenses were things she paid money out for the business.
How the hell can you run a business for 8 years and not know what income and expenses are?!?
Then there was the lady who was pissed that I couldn’t help her fix her tech issues after I explained to her that 1.) I have no tech training. 2) I don’t have access to any of the tools needed to fix her issue, even if I did have the training. I provided her with the customer support number.
She then got pissed that she couldn’t get through the menu tree, and wanted me to walk her through it. That woman nearly blew a gasket when I told her I couldn’t, as I didn’t have a phone at my station.
I wanted to tell her look honey; if you don’t have the brains to navigate a menu tree, you don’t have the brains to be working on peoples cars.
So glad I’m off today.
I don’t really need any more fiber in my diet, [as an example, I had my normal breakfast of steel cut oatmeal, raisins and cinnamon this morning. Lunch will be my normal salad of chopped cabbage, celery, onion, garbanzo beans, carrots and kalamata olives with a balsamic dressing and a hard boiled egg because mrAru was going to take it in for lunch but forgot it, and dinner tonight is going to be cod a la bretonne - fillet of cod cooked with leek and carrot flavored with thyme and lemon and some leftover apple pie from Pi day.] I tend to get around 40-60 grams of dietary fiber a day on a normal basis. I regularly work with a nutritionist, having been diabetic for some 32 years now. While I do a reasonable amount of natural fats [whole milk vice cream or skim, butter vice margarine, olive oil and what is normally present in the foods itself] and have excellent bloodwork [and an excellent cardiac stress test last summer] the sulfur burps are just a fairly well known side effect of victoza at this time. The drug deliberately slows down digestion so speeding it up by bulking up my stomach contents is really not going to work, make the burps worse and me more uncomfortable. Besides, fiber that I am not used to eating [and I don’t do psyllum husks normally] gives me new and interesting farts that can clear the room :eek: I tried psyllum crackers at my local co-op and sweet jesus the farts …]
On a fiber note, my coop occasionally carries the best damned snack food - chips made of baking hummus! I have got to figure out how to do this at home. Otherwise I would break the bank, and I want to control any additives. I normally work hummus in as one of my snacks , as something to dip my celery and cukes in.
There are **ANTS **in my KITCHEN.
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Fuck ants. Fuck them with a flamethrower.
I hab a colt. My nose is duffed up. My family is habbing a hard time undersanding my words. I plan to sneeze on them a lot in revench.
Will yur colt becaum a horsie?