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Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'll definitely spend some time on the website that LouisEly recommends, especially for evaluating recipies. And I'll grab the Kindle book that hawing has mentioned. Someone mentioned Penzey's to me previously, but I forgot the name of the place, so I'm glad that logan82 brought that up. I see that there's a location that's very convenient for me. And I'm glad that Baldkin mentioned Mrs. Dash. I had seen those products mentioned, but they kind of slipped my mind. I see that besides being sodium-free, their products aren't loaded with garbage. Because this is a widely recognized brand, I'd bet on the products being easy to find. nate82's corn tortilla suggestion is a good one. The idea definitely appeals to me, but this person is set in his ways and may take some convincing. I may come up with something that'll appeal to him, though. I'm also intrigued by rwa12's Greek Yogurt suggestion. I'm not sure that I'll be able to get this person to smear it on a sandwich, but I'm definitely going to try it in chicken or potato salad. Going back to what RoCoBrewfan says about the taste of salt becoming undesirable, I definitely think that lightly salted potato chips taste better than the "standard" product. And LouisEly makes a good point about times where sodium can be beneficial in situations where you might be encountering with dehydration. If you're dealing with diarrhea, for instance, and there isn't a lot of appetite to begin with, a can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup might be appropriate and would fit within one's daily limit. On most days, however, that'd be a total waste as you'd rather allocate your sodium intake to something else.

If TF has any fillings in his teeth, one of them ought to do for a radio.

Tonight I made up a recipe tonight that my mom used to make. In its original form, it would have been fairly high in sodium. I skipped the 2 teaspoons of salt and did some substitutions: Herb-Ox® Sodium Free Beef Bullion (available at Sendik's) for the standard beef bullion cube No Salt Added Canned Corn (available in a lot of places) for the standard can of corn No Salt Added Diced Tomatoes (available in a lot of places) for the standard can of diced tomatoes I thought the net result was bland, but the patient was OK with it. (I didn't mention that I had conscientiously reduced the sodium from the original recipe.) With the leftovers, I might try adding more of the spices called for (chili powder, black pepper). Or in this particular recipe, I could always add cayenne (which definitely becomes noticeable once one uses enough). Apparently it's common to put potassium into products where sodium is removed or reduced. The Herb-Ox® Bouillon falls into this category. Depending on the individual, additional potassium could be good, bad, or irrelevant. Most of the medical gurus have told us to try to stick to 1500mg in a day as the limit, although some have said 1500–2000. 2000mg would be a huge improvement for a lot of people, though. I'd bet that many people routinely consume 5000mg or more in a typical day. So far, with restaurant food, the only thing I can think of is to not take home the leftovers and to be extremely conscientious about skipping sodium during the rest of the day. I'm not a great cook, so substitutions don't come natural to me. I don't necessarily know which herbs and spices are appropriate to a particular dish, nor do I know how much to use. Some stuff is kind of surprising. We "fit in" BLTs recently. The bread was worse than the bacon. Mayonnaise is something I'm working on making better. If someone has a recommendation, I'd be glad to hear it. One trick that I hear people use is to eat open faced sandwiches. That's be a pretty sloppy option in some cases, though.

I've been trying to help a family member with a reduced sodium diet. It's not an easy task. The first thing that becomes obvious is that it's pretty wild how really, really bad many foods are. One really obvious thing is to not add salt at the table and to avoid it if at all possible while cooking. A teaspoon contains more sodium than anyone at any age is supposed to consume in a day. Some of the basics that one learns right away are that processed foods suck, bread sucks, and restaurant food sucks. It seems that processed foods should basically be eliminated. With bread, it looks like one should look for the lowest sodium alternative and limit its consumption. Restaurants apparently need to be avoided as much as possible. I feel like I've made quite a bit of progress, but there's still a long way to go. When I buy something, I check the sodium content on all competing alternatives and go with the lowest. Often, I'll come home and say "This isn't too bad, but I think we can do better." One thing I've noticed is that a product's definition of a "serving" is often ludicrous. You have to look at the amount of product that's likely to be eaten and go from that. I'm hoping that people here have suggestions that they can share, e.g. products that are reasonable alternatives and where they can be purchased, easy recipes, what to do when you're forced to eat at a restaurant, etc. I have a few specific products that I've found that I'll come back and post later.

I just used a store locator that included Muskegon in locations within 100 miles of Milwaukee. Of course, that assumes that you'll take the ferry to get there.

It'll probably work out, but wondering in the meantime will be a drag. Keep tracking the thing if you want to know what's going on. I recently did something similar (sent to the wrong address), but I didn't catch it until it was too late. Amazon refunded the first order and said they'd re-create it and send a new order to the address I wanted. They were also going to expedite shipping at no extra charge. That sounded good to me. So I got the e-mail and found out that the re-created order was also going to the wrong address. When I called Amazon back, the second techie told me that the person who handled the problem the first time didn't have the authority to send to a different address. At least this time, I had the lead time to change the delivery address through UPS. The first package must have been lying where it was originally dropped off as there was no difficulty with Amazon getting it back. The bummer is that Amazon always assumes that your billing address and shipping address are the same. Previously, the last address you shipped to was the default for the subsequent order. That's problematic, too, which is probably why the system was changed. It'd be nice to be able to choose a default shipping address and not have to worry about changing it when you order.

No game thread in the 6th inning. Brewers trail 1-0 thanks to an awful error by Francisco. Actually, there was another topic started. They're merged now.

I felt like a surgeon, as one tiny slip and the brand new hose would be punctured. Or your hand would have been punctured.

Yeah, I understand that some of this inconvenience amounts to theft-prevention. I'd rather pay more for companies to risk theft and offer packages that can be opened. I don't do this often, but I've been known to make store employees open packages for me before I walk out. I've actually returned products because removing the stickers ruined them. Recently, I returned some coffee mugs because removing the stickers was too much work. The stupidest place I've seen stickers was on the front side of pieces of poster board. Time Warner knows which box they want to reset, but I don't know that. The box could be running adequately and in use by someone else in the house. Or maybe it's recording something. If I knew which box they wanted to reset, I'd know whether I wanted to take them up on their suggestion immediately or do it later at my convenience.

As a parallel, I frequently think that businesses and marketing departments are continually making an effort to purposely annoy their customers by selling lousy products, putting the lousy products in packaging that's impossible to open, sticking stuff on the products that's impossible to remove, rearranging stores, etc. After thinking all those accusatory thoughts, I ultimately chalk this stuff up to people simply being stupid. Chances are that these pedestrians are simply stupid or oblivious too. Re the gifts, maybe the thing to do is agree not to give them to nieces and nephews. I think my mom did that with her siblings. The only gifts I recall my parents giving to cousins were to the ones that were their godchildren. I never received gifts from my aunts and uncles, and I don't recall them being around for birthdays. I was just happy to see them when I saw them. Re Time Warner, what I hate is calling them, getting the message that the cable box needs resetting and offering to do it if I press a key on the phone, and wondering which cable box they want to reset. And re George Kottaras, I don't recall what he looks like, and I had kind of forgotten that he was still on last year's team.

The Fantasy Football forum at LambeauLeap is probably a good place to look for players. http://forum.lambeauleap.net/viewforum.php?f=62

The kids made it across fine due to a lot of careful drivers.

I almost never iron if I can help it, but I've had to do it a couple of times recently. The last time I ironed (about six months ago), the iron was spewing out black garbage, so I replaced it. Today, I took the new iron out of the box. The dial with all the settings is obscured by cloudy translucent plastic. The instructions for the unit are actually a brief summary, and the diagram labeling the parts is in Spanish. (There are Spanish instructions and English instructions, but both diagrams are in Spanish.) Actually, you shouldn't need instructions at all for an iron if the controls are designed to be clear to begin with. Moving right along, yesterday, two kids under ten years old on bikes crossed Loomis Road at the Ramsey-Southway intersection against the light. This is a 45 mph zone on a four-lane divided roadway (plus paved shoulders and left turn lanes). There were a lot of cars; it wasn't like there was a break in the traffic. Making it worse, they did this separately. One kid crossed, and all the cars stopped. When traffic started moving again, the second kid decided to cross. EDIT… Here's the intersection:

It bugs me when medical professionals use the word "pee."

You have ask your friendly board admin to do it for you. That would be hawing or me. Send me a PM with your preferred username. I'll make the change and e-mail you confirmation once it's been done. I prefer to use e-mail at the point of confirmation because your login name will change. E-mail will eliminate any guessing as to whether or not the change has been completed.

Yeah, I heard that on the radio. I was on the East Side and I saw a couple of raindrops on the windshield. As I drove across the county, I never saw actual rain, though. When it's warm like this, I think the Brewers and their fans can stand the risk if the team ends up being a little late in closing the roof.

Some of the teasers are as bad as the breaking news. They completely misrepresent the actual story. Of course, once the actual story is "reported," that tends to be a misrepresentation too.

Actually, I don't personally consider it to be rude… or maybe a better way to say this is that it's technically rude but it doesn't offend me. Or an even better way to say it might be that one way is more polite than the other without getting into rudeness at all.

That's not what I was saying. While "me and Davey" is grammatically correct in the sample sentence, it would be less polite than "Davey and me." Mixing up "I" and "me" has nothing to do with politeness.

Yeah, taking the other person out is the easiest way to handle this one. Once you try it a couple of times, handling this situation quickly becomes second nature. Of course, I wouldn't have the same "I vs. me" expectation for everyone. Craig's a professionally trained broadcaster who should be getting this right. Because he doesn't have professional training, I'd be a lot less bugged if Davey said "That'll do it for Craig and I." You see TV and movie characters making this error all the time. I try to convince myself that the writers are picking this language because they feel it's appropriate to the character (like they would if a character says "ain't"). However, if the character's grammar is impeccable otherwise, I think the writer is likely dropping the ball. I'm certain that this goes back to parents (appropriately) correcting their children when they say something like "Me and my dad went to the Brewers game." "My Dad and I" ends up being generalized to all situations. Actually, "That'll do it for me and Davey." would be grammatically correct, but in most situations, it'd be awkward, impolite, or both. There are infrequent times when "me and whomever" would be the right choice, though. Yeah, it annoys me when people consider stop signs to be suggestions. I actually got honked at a couple of weeks ago by the car behind me before I even came to a complete stop. Try driving in Mexico. In addition to stop signs, traffic lights are also suggestions that are frequently disregarded. Likewise, painted lines dividing the street into lanes are only suggestions. I recall a street that had three painted lanes accommodating five lines of vehicles.

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We could opt to serve up ads on Tapatalk and make money from them, but we don't do that. Part of the reason to stay ad-free is to provide a nicer user experience; the other reason is that the ad service they use has a lousy reputation. It bugs me when people talk on their phones during games, but checking on baseball-related stuff seems reasonable. Keeping score on an iPad sounds way cool. And using texts or e-mail to meet up with Brewerfan.netters certainly makes sense. I know I whined about this before, but once again, Craig Coshun ended the telecast by saying "That'll do it for Davey and I."

Yeah, I heard a newscaster say "guy" on WTMJ radio too. That's unacceptable. May as well say "dude." It'd be different on a talk show where it's reasonable to be less formal. I tried looking on channel 6's web site to see if I could single out the guilty party's name, but I couldn't find any page for their news team. She's a bit older, probably around 50. CTRL-0 (that's zero) on a pee cee or CMD-0 on a Mac will reset the zoom preferences for a single site. To clear all site preferences, go to "Clear Recent History…" in the History menu, and in the box that comes up, make sure "Site Preferences" is checked before hitting the "Clear Now" button. In that window, make sure that the "Time range to clear" dropdown at the top is set appropriately for what you want to do.

The woman on Channel 6 just said "He started to lay on the ground" in reference to the incident she was describing.

Any help with lineups and that would be appreciated.