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  1. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    Just broke fast with a red onion, roasted red pepper, hot Italian sausage, and muenster cheese, 3-egg omelet.
  2. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    I too enjoy eating (and cooking) immensely, hence the girth I have attained. Fasting hasn't been so hard. Like depression and anxiety, I have found, distraction (which allows for time) is the key. (See, "time heals all wounds" IS true!) Intermittent fasting works with an eating window. Mine is...
  3. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    Thank you, but why the unlike? Intermittent fasting is the latest greatest thing, and it is quite effective. I'm basically not eating between 7pm and noon/1pm, and my meals are healthier. My problem to begin with has been that I'm not a fussy eater. There is very little that I object to. There...
  4. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    I (and my Dr.) have decided that I'm too fat for my own good, so I have taken to doing intermittent fasting. This means that I've cut my eating window down to about 6 hours a day which basically allows for a late lunch and an early dinner. So I don't do breakfast anymore (just A LOT of coffee...
  5. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hear, hear. If you can find them that is. Sadly for many things, modern versions pale in the kind of quality and sturdiness that originals inherently had. Though certainly in some cases authenticity is pretty awesome. That's a tough place to visit. The last time we went, we seemed to burn out...
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I blame Antiques Road Show for instilling in people a falsely inflated sense value to their stuff. Sure, your trinket is worth $$$$, good luck finding someone to pay that. In the end, that kinda makes it worth nothing now doesn't it? It's all arbitrary. Surely high-end things excepted, but how...
  8. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just a few years ago I worked with an older lady (in her 70s at least) who referred to scotch tape as "magic mending tape." I had never heard that term before. Interesting woman - quite the night owl and, for whatever reason, she always smelled of mothballs. Lovely lady nonetheless.
  9. Hercule

    You know you are getting old when:

    That's funny! And here I thought I was the only one thinking that.
  10. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Seemed like a good idea at the time. What could possibly go wrong?
  11. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Some people just are that way. They naturally seem to talk louder than most. One has to wonder if they have trouble hearing. My wife can be that way sometimes, though I suspect she's compensating for me not listening. I've met the opposite too - those who talk very quietly or, rather, they're...
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Before our son came along, my wife and I used to walk down to our local park for the fireworks display on the 4th of July. We'd bring along iced tea, a bag of cherries and honeyed sesame sticks, and stake out a blanket sized bit of real estate among the throngs of people who had been there all...
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When we lived on the west side some of the neighborhood fireworks on the 4th of July seriously rivaled that of some municipalities. As I am wont, I just saw it as $$ going up in smoke. But to each his own.
  15. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Aggravation du jour: (more like self-loathing, really) the amount of time I spend on YouTube. - in my defense I work as a librarian and sit in front of a computer all day. What else am I supposed to listen to while I’m working? Unfortunately, that excuse doesn’t cover time spent on my phone...
  16. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Have you tried a "thundershirt" for dogs? I understand they do work.
  17. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I may be crazy but I think Zippo lighters have a very distinctive smell about them. Probably a combination of the lighter fluid and (reacting with?) the metal of the lighter itself (if metal can have a smell). Regardless, I somehow have a fond memory of it from my childhood. I had a fun aunt...
  19. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Keys, good god, I sometimes feel like a janitor: car fob, 4 house keys (deadbolts and knobs for 2 doors), son's bicycle lock, a skeleton key (personal, can't explain), strongbox key, 4 work keys (I keep another set of 3 work keys on a lanyard in my briefcase, and there are several more loose...
  20. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    No, no, no, not at all. Think nothing of it. Before buying a house a year ago (just about exactly) I was an avowed renter who thoroughly enjoyed no responsibilities for external maintenance. But now that I have no neighbors above below or other side of the wall, I'm sold on it. My only problem...
  21. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Capital idea! (yes, I had to look up whether it was an A or an O). Warm sunny day here, and I'm debating whether or not to mow the lawn before I start dinner (Turkish chicken Kebabs and roasted dill potatoes with Tzatziki). ... ... Meh! The lawn will be there tomorrow. I'll have a beer and...
  22. Hercule

    What are you listening to?

    I've been listening to quite bit of Russian folk music of late, both "archival"-like presentations and modern adaptations. For the former see the Youtube channel VEK. It's quite striking how similar the choral music is to 19th century American-vocalist / tunebook music. For the latter I've...
  23. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agree, though it seems that more often than not I have no cash on me. Otherwise I do like to keep a $20 and a couple of $1 on me for a hair cut. I am still of an age/situation where I still get birthday money. I'm very quick to stash it in the deepest recesses of my wallet where I hope to...

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