Lunctime Life Collection

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It was hell out on I-55 today. Cold frozen and I expected to see Brutus and Judas being chewed on somewhere on the horizon. It's only getting worse overnight. I'm running Monday.

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Tonight's Wolf Moon is the biggest, brightest moon of the year. Good luck seeing it from places other than Memphis. And look for the reddish object just to the left. That's Mars.
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Domestic Terrorist Scott Roeder found guilty. Who wants to bet that gun will turn up as a Holy Relic among the Control-the-women crowd?
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2009 worst year on record for wages abnd benefits. Records go back to 1982 and cover a period when we had 11% unemployment.
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Six Health Mistakes. Diet soda, second opinions and other stuff.
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Radio talk show kills J.D. Salinger. OK, this is an inside joke. I listen to a show called "Freewheelin" on the trucker channel of my satellite radio. Every time a host takes a vacation, someone famous dies. Last week, we were playing "Dead or Alive" where the host names a famous person and the callers compete to see who can answer correctly whether that person is still alive. Salinger came up and everyone said he was dead. Until Meredith looked it up and announced he was still alive.
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Comments

[cyren-2132.livejournal.com]

To me, the diet soda leads to over-eating because you 'spend the calories you've saved' seems like it's less a fault with the soda and more a fault with the drinker.

I'd heard that diet soda was "bad" because the artifical sweetener didn't curb your craving for sweets, but I know in my case I'm not drinking it for a sweet-fix, I'm drinking it for it's (entirely different kind of) sweet, sweet caffeine. Plus, I just prefer the flavor (it's LESS sweet than regular). But the notion that it may actually whet an appetite for sweets is new to me, and something to be observed.

I'll say this though, I DO think a lot less about the "zero" calories in a diet coke than the 200 or so in a regular coke, so it's a lot easier to not really pay a lot of attention to how much I'm drinking. The next thing you know a full work day will have passed and I've drank three cans of Diet Coke and not an ounce of actual water. But again, I think that's more of a problem with me than with the soda. Keeping track of what I drink is my responsibility.