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I host an internet radio show (the greatest) with my friends Mickey, J, and Ross. I have diabetes, they don’t. I write about my experiences in life, they don’t. Yet.

It’s easy to get complacent when you are trying to adhere to a new way of eating, or a new way of living. You are constantly assaulted by information, some wise, most silly, some outright ridiculous.

I have been told to go ahead and eat whatever, as long as it is the size of my fist. Really? Red Velvet Cake, soaked in egg yolks and rum and butter cream frosting, wrapped in a croissant? It’s the size of my fist, though!

I have been told to drink protein shakes, but I recently discovered they will straight up kill your ass dead, so I will certainly be avoiding those. Anybody want to buy 60 odd ‘Nilla and Chocolate Myoplex powder servings?

There are aisles of “diabetes” food. Funny, for a disease that is trying to “teach” you to eschew processed, chemically treated and generally modified (or “ruined”) food, an entire industry has leapt up, ready to fill our bellies with things that are not food.

Drink saccharine! That’s not food. Enjoy olestra! That’s not food. Have some flax! That’s not…

Oh.

It is?

Are you quite sure?

How… very.

I am most sad when I think the word, “beverage”.

For a guy who used to get his jollies drinking soft drinks, fruit juice, juiced vegetables, milk in all forms, shakes, mixed drinks, ales, ades, and the occasional sweet porter, it has taken some getting used to.

Water. Tea. Maybe coffee (some sites say it’s good, others say it’s bad, only the Moonies really know).

Take aspartame, saccharine, and sucralose out of that equation, and you are pretty much down to three wet things that enter your mouth. Hawt.

Of course, that allows me to branch out within tea.  Spiced tea, Jasmine tea (hooray, Zuko), Earl Grey Tea, Citron Tea, Green Tea. Sort of a smorgasboard of leafy wet goodness, sure.

But you always have to be aware of the marketing, and the buck-making. I was at our local Flea Market buying some pecans or almonds or some sorta nut, and stumbled across -

I have LONG heard of the healing benefits of alfalfa (the American Indians called it “hay”)! And yes, at the bottom, the label on the closer bin is, “Male Magic”.

Thankfully, I live down the street from a proper tea shoppe, and thus have quite a few options ahead of me.

The doctor’s news was partly good during my appointment today. More on that tomorrow, I think. Need to finish analyzing my labs. Also landed some new medications!

Can you guess which ones? Hint, I was thrilled when the pharmacist, (the American Indians called them, “jerkwads”) announced the name of one medication out loud in front of three women. Proud moment for Nurse, you betcha!

Then again, she married me. The woman has no shame.

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In this hour, we discussed geocaching, which fascinates me. Leave it to the human race to find a way to connect with other people without even being THERE!

A new listener clued me in to the facts, and I spent some time learning at geocaching.com – I think I am ready. Going to go out this weekend to do some hunts, and see what works. I’ll post on the forums my findings, so check back there.

I just got home from Ye Olde Cuppa Oolongs here in Longwood, FL. It’s a great little tea shop with more jars loaded with fragrant manliness than you can imagine.

What? Tea is manly?

You bet your sweet peco orange it is, friend. Even Alton Brown knew it – There is a reason this stuff funded wars, spawned world travel, and helped the United States to overthrow her Greek Oppressors.

Tonight I had mostly Indian ilk, some lights, darks, Margaret’s Hope, Masala, and we learned what chai means.

You know when someone walks into Starbucks, and orders a chai tea?

They just ordered a tea tea.

HA!

If you are local, check them out, and if you are not local, check out my second favorite coffee (only sold here in town at Ye Olde Cupper Feelie), Deadman’s Reach. It is rich, robust, caffeine-packed, smooth, creamy, sharp, then velvety, and always cooks up smelling like coffee should smell: delicious.

It still doesn’t hold a candle to my absolute favorite coffee. Where you at, Chrisp? I need some wawa on the backside!

Maybe I will just paint the studio with tea grounds and coffee stains.

Drink up, listener.

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SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow brought to you this week by O’boys and Curtis Earth Trivia. Two great tastes!

Ross came in a little late this week but all he missed in the notes was some talk about him…being late…

But we don’t blame him too much, after all the night before was his birthday party where trivia and beer abounded! He came in and jumped right on his job and then handed out beer. That took away a bit of the pain of him being late. Good call, Ross! Geoff, Mickey and I (not J) got him some funky beer from Total Wine which is a mecca of alcohol! Thank god for dear friends having birthdays so we could check out this place. And thank god for those dear friends sharing it with us.

Speaking of dear friends, we sure do miss the hell out of one big bastard. Come home lil doggy!

Have you ever had sun tea? It’s a tradition… or a staple… what is that word? Well, we do it here in the south! You take tea but instead of making it inside you put it outside… in the sun. My mom used to do this all the time but I didn’t like tea at the time. Why don’t northerners make sun tea? They still could, for a few weeks each August? I guess we just do it more often here since we can do it all but a week in January and a week in February. And in other things the south just does better (yes, I’m trying to rile you all up, come on Yankees!)

At Ross’s party we had a thing called a rib nibbler. They were little bite size chunks of rib (bone-in) and they were GOOD. I didn’t try the ribs but from what I hear these were better than their specialty of baby back ribs! They didn’t even need any dressing.

Speaking of dressing, Paul Newman died. I’d say it was bad that current generations knew him more for his salad dressing but he has stated that he enjoyed that more and he made more money for it so good for him! We did lose a good liberal in that man though. RIP Mr Newman.

I thought I had finally found something to pick on Ross for as there was no music listed but then I remembered from listening live Saturday from 1-4 PM Eastern, that there was no music as we had a twitter pal of Ross‘ call in! Thanks for the great call Mister32.

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