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The New Purina Diet: Lose Weight & Maintain Proper Nutrition

This story was posted on a discussion board to which I belong:

A stupid question deserves an appropriate answer....

I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for my Labrador Retriever and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again . . . although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.

Horrified, she asked if I'd been poisoned and was that why I was in the hospital. I said no . . .

I'd been sitting in the street scratching myself behind the ears and a car hit me.

I thought the tall guy was going to have to be carried out the door.

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You killed it!

It's been a while . . . I hope to get back into the swing.

I have to say, though, you spammers killed the forum.

It was on its way out anyway: I had hoped to start some actual conversations among Therapists about Therapy-related topics. Nobody was interested, I guess, and so I was going to kill it anyway. The spam postings just hastened its demise.

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Another excellent & inspiring quote

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

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VoIP: What? Can you hear me?

Again, this blog is not designed to be a subjective rant, but I do have to weigh in on VoIP, or, Voice over Internet Protocol.

It seems to be the next hot thing, but I have had two very bad experiences with it. Two calls I made to two different customer service centers turned out to be worse experiences than those bad cell phone calls we've all dealt with at one time or another.

Most recently, my call to Dell computers ended up in (where else?) India. We spent most of the call just trying to hear each other, and if two people spoke at the same time, the sound just cut out altogether.

It may be that it's a problem during high call-volume times only, I don't know. But it was extremely irritating.

For more info on VoIP, the FCC has a good informational site.

Quote

Just to get the ball rolling again, here's a quote that I think pretty much sums it up:

“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
--Ken Hakuta

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