This is a Yellow Pages ad for a local trucking company. The intent of the message has been lost in the wording of the message.
23 July 2011
For My Birthday...
23 July 2011 10:03For my birthday we when to the local All You Can Eat and ate all I could.
Yesterday I visited a skin cancer specialist to have some spots looked at. The doctor looked at the one that worried me -- ie the one that ws bleeding -- and went "Hmm. I need a closer look." He then pulled out a magnifying thing, attached it to his iPhone, pressed the lens against the spot and took a photo. He examined the spot on the iPhone screen, zooming in and panning about. "Hmm..."
I told him I was worried about it because it bled when I scratched it. He said it was nothing to worry about. "And stop scratching it."
He examined all the other spots that concerned me. One was frozen with liquid nitrogen -- "It's not cancer, but..." -- and I am scheduled to have a mole removed next Thursday. "It's not cancer either, but..." I told him about the "Buts" when I had my manboobs off. He said he'd rather treat a thousand possible-but-probably-not cancers than not treat them and miss one.
About half way through the examination he paused, looked at his records, and said "Wait, you were born in 1961?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"I turned *mumble* yesterday."
"But... I thought you were only 35! 40 at most!"
Anyway.
Skin Cancer. There's an app for that.
Yesterday I visited a skin cancer specialist to have some spots looked at. The doctor looked at the one that worried me -- ie the one that ws bleeding -- and went "Hmm. I need a closer look." He then pulled out a magnifying thing, attached it to his iPhone, pressed the lens against the spot and took a photo. He examined the spot on the iPhone screen, zooming in and panning about. "Hmm..."
I told him I was worried about it because it bled when I scratched it. He said it was nothing to worry about. "And stop scratching it."
He examined all the other spots that concerned me. One was frozen with liquid nitrogen -- "It's not cancer, but..." -- and I am scheduled to have a mole removed next Thursday. "It's not cancer either, but..." I told him about the "Buts" when I had my manboobs off. He said he'd rather treat a thousand possible-but-probably-not cancers than not treat them and miss one.
About half way through the examination he paused, looked at his records, and said "Wait, you were born in 1961?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"I turned *mumble* yesterday."
"But... I thought you were only 35! 40 at most!"
Anyway.
Skin Cancer. There's an app for that.
Meatless Spag Bol
23 July 2011 14:45Last night ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thefoxaroo arrives and so I cooked him foods. I wanted to cook spaghetti bolognaise, but thefoxaroo is a strict vegetarian.
I know! I thought. I can do this!
Thinly slice a bunch of firm tofu, and fry in olive oil until brown. Remove from pan
Chop up 3 large mushrooms, a medium onion, a medium-ish bunch of broccoli, and slice up 2 carrots.
Throw in the onions and fry until slightly brown. Throw in the mushrooms and all the other veges and a cup of water. Steam until the carrots are fairly soft. I use the carrots as a guide to how cooked everything is. If the carrots are done, everything is done. Turn down to simmer and let the water evapourate off to thicken the sauce.
Dump in a tin of diced tomatoes and a jar of tomato paste, and 2 empty tomato paste jars of water. Stir in and simmer. Add herbs here if you want. I did.
Open a tin of Nutolene, cut into small cubes.
Start your spaghetti. When the spag is almost done throw the tofu and Nutolene into the fry pan with all the veggies, and turn it down. Stir in the Nutolene and tofu to evenly distribute it through the sauce. Do this until the Nutolene and tofu are hot and your spag is ready.
Get it all together on a plate.
Feeds one happy vegetarian, one surprisingly pleased omnivore, and one unhappy carnivore.
I wish I'd done this whenhopeforyou, pure_agnostic and family visited. (Without the Mushrooms, of course.)
thefoxaroo arrives and so I cooked him foods. I wanted to cook spaghetti bolognaise, but thefoxaroo is a strict vegetarian.I know! I thought. I can do this!
Thinly slice a bunch of firm tofu, and fry in olive oil until brown. Remove from pan
Chop up 3 large mushrooms, a medium onion, a medium-ish bunch of broccoli, and slice up 2 carrots.
Throw in the onions and fry until slightly brown. Throw in the mushrooms and all the other veges and a cup of water. Steam until the carrots are fairly soft. I use the carrots as a guide to how cooked everything is. If the carrots are done, everything is done. Turn down to simmer and let the water evapourate off to thicken the sauce.
Dump in a tin of diced tomatoes and a jar of tomato paste, and 2 empty tomato paste jars of water. Stir in and simmer. Add herbs here if you want. I did.
Open a tin of Nutolene, cut into small cubes.
Start your spaghetti. When the spag is almost done throw the tofu and Nutolene into the fry pan with all the veggies, and turn it down. Stir in the Nutolene and tofu to evenly distribute it through the sauce. Do this until the Nutolene and tofu are hot and your spag is ready.
Get it all together on a plate.
Feeds one happy vegetarian, one surprisingly pleased omnivore, and one unhappy carnivore.
I wish I'd done this when
hopeforyou, pure_agnostic and family visited. (Without the Mushrooms, of course.)