Observations

[Diane Amberg]

Mine is  1.2 cu ft. and 1100 watts. It took a few minutes to get the functions figured out as they were a little different from the last one. I lke it a lot.

[Warph]

Forget the microwave, Larry.  A pharmaceutical company has introduced a new convenience food for 2013 in the form of injectable meals that require no cooking at all.  Responding to consumers' criticisms of current microwavable meals, the company have developed a unique method of delivering the wholesome mix of chemicals, salt and fat that ready-meals provide... ie: Stouffers, Lean Cuisine, Hungry Man, blah, blah blah.

If you watch MS/NBC, CEO Patra Sonitpur Pattanayak Chinnamalai told a news conference yesterday: "Today's consumers don't have time to spare in their busy lives... in the 6 minutes it takes to microwave, they could be at a gym, watching a DVD or watching pedestrians crossing the road."

The new meal, already packed in its own syringe, can be injected into any prominent vein.

"Chicken and Ham Pie"

The nutritional elements can then be delivered to where the body really needs them.  At the same time, fats can be cemented to artery walls, thus reducing the time it takes to induce coronary embolisms.  The product can also be injected into your tongue and, in a move aimed at the fashion conscious, between the toes to avoid tell-tale scars.  P & G hinted, too, at a variation of the product that could be inhaled by heating it over tinfoil.

Reacting to accusations that the new product would further reduce the image of an already low-value meal, Chinnamalai suggested that "many would have said the same about dog-fighting, but people still do it." 

He did warn, however, against the sharing of meals which might increase the risk of hepatitis C and HIV infection.

[larryJ]

I am still amazed at technology these days although I shouldn't be.  Years ago when we bought our last microwave, we went to Sears, stood around looking at them, decided on the one we wanted, had the salesclerk fill out the necessary paperwork for our charge card and then went to the customer pickup area to load it into the car.  All of this took about an hour or more.

Yesterday, I went to Sears, third floor appliances, saw the microwave I wanted (same as the one we have, only newer) and the sales clerk was standing right next to me.  This was a young lady carrying an tablet on a shoulder strap.  She entered the microwaves numbers, swiped my card with a reader on the tablet and went to the printer to get the receipt.  In the meantime, another young lady showed up with a dolly and took it down to the pickup area.  My phone dinged with an e-mail message from Sears thanking me for my purchase and a printable receipt.  I went downstairs to the pick up area.  I had parked right next to it.  I went inside with my receipt.  There was a scanning machine which read the bar code on the receipt and the machine thanked me for my business.  My name went up on an overhead TV screen which started counting down the minutes that I was waiting.  It got to 2:42 before a young man showed up with the microwave and put it in my van.  Total time.........less than thirty minutes and ten of that was me walking around looking at all the microwaves. 

I'm waiting for the day when I can just order on the computer and it is delivered within 30 minutes.

And, Warph, I will always still chew my food as long as it is available to chew and I still have my teeth.  No injectable meals for me!

Larryj

[Warph]

Larry.. Larry...(sigh) Larry.  You wasted your time, gas, money... and most important... your health on the purchase of this very dangerous contraption.  Some info you might be interested in:


This from the Public Health Division of the FDA on microwave therapy and household devices:

Since 1996, we have received reports of 16 thermal injuries related to microwave thermotherapy systems. Of these, 10 resulted in fistula formation and 6 resulted in clinically significant tissue damage to the penis or urethra. These injuries may not be apparent at the time of treatment, and may take hours or days to develop. (Note that the original labeling for these devices did not list fistula formation as a procedure-related complication.) The reported injuries have required colostomies, partial amputation of the penis, and/or other therapeutic interventions.

We have identified several factors that may have contributed to the injuries noted:

*Incorrect placement or undetected migration of either the treatment catheter or the rectal temperature sensors;
*Failure of the physician to remain with the patient throughout the entire treatment duration;
*Failure to pause treatment when the patient is communicating serious pain;
*Oversedation of the patient, which compromises his ability to communicate pain;
*Treatment of patients who have undergone prior radiation therapy to the pelvic area;
*Treatment of patients who use microwave ovens which cause serious problems to the whole body system;
*Treatment of patients whose prostate sizes are outside the ranges specified in the labeling; and
Leakage from the balloons used to retain either the urethral catheter or the rectal temperature sensor in the correct anatomical position.
This on Microwave ovens:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The US FDA has banned the use of microwave ovens since food which is heated in a microwave inevitably causes cancer as the molecular structure of the food, and even human blood is changed, FDA Deputy-Chief Ralph Roachman said at a well-attended news conference here on Monday: fda.gov

Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health," Roachman stated. "People are often killed by a simple blood transfusion when some nurse accidentally warms the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven."

The ban of microwave ovens and microwaving was advised in FDA notice WTF/OMG-5678-9145625.

A great many scientific studies have looked at the effects of eating microwaved food and their impact on human health.

Top FDA researcher Dr. Felix Minderpinder has confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients into toxic chemicals, even during large-scale food processing in industry.

"Blood samples taken immediately after eating shows that microwaved food lowers human hemoglobin levels," said Dr. Minderpinder. "These results show anemic tendencies. The poor bastards in my study continued to eat microwaved food until they had no more red blood cells left and had turned white. This was particularly alarming since several of them were negroes."

"People who ate microwaved food for a year or more also become extremely violent and psychotic and joined the Obama Administration who, in a matter of days, learned to lie, cheat and screw the American people, or until they entered the cancer ward or joined the army or the CIA," added the noted researcher.

The Minderpinder research at FDA labs also found that besides destroying hemoglobin, DNA and other complex molecules, microwaving causes food molecules to form new life forms called unique radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. These poisons then cause deterioration of sexual responses, blood and immune systems.

In addition, Dr. Minderpinder found that the number of leucocytes increases then falls dramatically after eating microwaved food, something which hematologists take very seriously as it is a sign of severe poisoning.

Eating microwaved food also causes cholesterol levels to increase.

Dr. Minderpinder said "Common scientific belief states that cholesterol values usually alter slowly over longer periods of time. In this study, the markers increased rapidly after the consumption of microwaved vegetables."

After World War II, Russians had experimented with microwave ovens, and found that meat heated in microwave ovens created
d-nitrosodiethal-globulomonoparaparamono-monodianolamine, a well-known cancer-causing agent. There was also destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds, creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosulphulated compounds in milk and cereal grains, as well as alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside and galactoside elements within frozen fruit, pies and pizzas when thawed by microwaves.

Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods, and cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables and microwaved popcorn.

Those ingesting microwaved foods showed a statistically higher incidence of stomach, brain, nasal and intestinal cancers, plus a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues and higher cortical functions combined with a gradual breakdown of digestive and excretory system function.

As a result, microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976, although the ban was lifted after Perestroika.

"Overall, ingestion of microwaved foods causes a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood and other human tissues and organs, due to chemical alterations within food substances, as well as malfunctions in the lymphatic system, causing hyperdegeneration of the immune system's capacity to protect itself against cancerous growth," warned Dr. Minderpinder.

"Thus the entire human blood, molecular, immune and digestive system tends to breakdown due to microwaving," Dr. Minderpinder concluded. "Anyone who consumes microwaved food is doomed. Thus this FDA microwave ban is entirely justified and should have been done years ago. We have never allowed microwave ovens in the FDA cafeteria."

[larryJ]

It is fast becoming the end of the school year here, only two more weeks.  Consequently, we have attended #1's Open House this last week and #2's last night.  Award ceremonies will be coming up soon as well end of the year parties. 

I say this because, as I have observed in the past........living in SoCal, I have seen just about everything there is to see.

Except......

The street that takes us to the pre-school passes by the police station downtown and then we turn right to go two blocks to the church preschool.  Behind the police station is where they park the patrol cars, etc.  And it is also the entrance to the jail.  I guess when someone is being bailed out, the person doing that has to have some papers notarized.  There is a bail bondsman and notary directly across the street, open 24/7.  Maybe he wasn't there yesterday because when we made that right turn, there was a "last-minute mobile notary" van parked behind the police station.  This guy pulls up to the gate of the police station and people meet him there to have documents notarized. 

Well, why not?  Everything else is mobile these days. 

You just never know.

Larryj

[larryJ]

addendum........After the open house, my wife, her cousin, my daughter and her family and I went to Islands restaurant for dinner.  Those not familiar with Islands restaurants.........the theme is south seas motif and the big screen TVs show surfing scenes from around the world.  It is basically a burger place, but they do have salads and fish dishes.  They also have macaroni and cheese for kids who want it.......which #2 granddaughter did.  We sat in a booth with my son-in-law, #2 and my daughter on one side.  My wife, #1 and myself on the other and the cousin in a chair on the end.  Remember these seating arrangements.  #2 is directly across from #1 and Nana.  She stuffed her mouth with a big helping of mac and cheese...........

AND SNEEZED!  Mac and cheese went all over #1 and Nana who got the worst of it. 

I thought it was hilarious...........Nana didn't.

Larryj

[Diane Amberg]

Oh My! That reminded me of a similar story about my little sister...it was tomato soup.

[larryJ]

Observations on the way to the beach yesterday......

A pickup truck with two pallets of plastic wrapped water bottles in the back........with one case of water bottles perched on top ready to slide off and the retaining strap that was supposed to be across the back was dragging along hooked to just one side of the truck.

In SoCal, it is not uncommon to see people standing on corners with signs advertising different services.  During tax season, there are those who wear green robes and sport statue of liberty hat rings near tax preparers offices, or teenagers holding up car wash signs to fund a school project or something.  There are the old fashioned "Eat at .......s" signs.  One time I saw a teenager standing on a corner of a busy street, and the small street where he lived, holding a yard sale sign.  I wondered if he was really in the spirit or being punished for something.  He didn't look too happy.

But yesterday was a first. 

As we entered Newport Beach, there was a young man on the corner holding a sign that said...........

"URGENT CARE!"

The impact of seeing this prompted the cousin and I to speculate on this one.  Was business so bad at the Urgent Care that they needed a guy to stand out there with a sign?  Or, although I really didn't see the building, maybe it was located away from the main road and this guy was there so people seeking urgent care wouldn't miss it.  In reality though, we arrived at the conclusion that given the great volume of people who hit the beach cities on the weekends, especially this weekend, many may not know where they could go for minor injuries, etc.  It made sense to me after that.

I am going to have to stop saying......just when I thought I had seen everything!

Larryj

[larryJ]

Didja ever have a time in your life when you went from 100 to O in 24 hours?

Yesterday, at 8:15, arrived at #1's school for a second grade dance recital, then took #2 to her preschool at 9.  Off to the doctor for a 10:50 appointment, back home by 11:30 to see that the new furniture for the living room had arrived.  The living room looked like a maze with the combination of old and new furniture.  Wife picked up #1 at 11:30 from school.  It was her last day of school this year.  Then she went and got #2 from preschool at 12:30.  Ate lunch then began sorting out all the furniture or at least making a plan on how to put things where they were supposed to be in the easiest way.  One couch, two love seats, a rocker recliner, two end tables, a coffee table, two lamps, a throw and a rug.  A friend arrived at 2:30 to help.  He moved the old couch to the family room.  Then he took the old couch in the family room into pieces and carried some parts out to the street for pickup.  Son-in-law arrived at 3:30 to pick up the girls and he helped carry the rest of the couch out.  Put the finishing touches on the room.  Ate dinner.

Today, woke up early.  Ate breakfast...................................

sheesh.

Larryj

[Warph]

The other day as I was lounging on my Pool Lounger at Tempe Town Lake, it sank and I washed up on a small, uninhabited island.  I prayed feverishly for someone to rescue me.  Every day I scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.  Exhausted, I eventually managed to build a little solar-hut out of what driftwood I could find to protect me from the elements....

.... and to store my few possessions I had left... pocket knife, two Werther's coffee carmels, three used kleenix tissues and a one-years subscription card to the Navy Times.  

One month later after scavenging for food, I arrived to find my little solar-hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky.  I felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost.  I was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger.  I cried out, 'Lord, how could you do this to me?!'  Early the next day, I was awakened by the sound of a row boat approaching the island!  It had come to rescue me !  'How did you know I was here?'  I asked of my rescuers.  'We saw your smoke signal,over there on shore' they replied.

Moral of This Story:
It's easy to get discouraged when things are going badly, but we shouldn't lose heart, because the Lord is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering.  Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground.  It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.