Grapefruit Pudding

Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.  Do you know?  I like grapefruit!

 

When the doctor put me on statins for my cholesterol I was warned against eating grapefruit.  It seems that the food slows down the metabolism of the medication causing the effective level of medicine to rise in your body.  IF YOU EAT TOO MUCH of it, that is.  But no one tells you about that last part; about the not eating TOO MUCH grapefruit.

 

How much grapefuit is too much grapefruit?

 

 

I asked my doctor that about a year ago — after being on statins for … oh golly… I bet I’ve been on them for 5 or 10 years now.  And I hadn’t had a grapefruit in all that time.  (Aren’t I a good boy?)  It turns out she said too much is like a liter of juice a day, but that a grapefruit a day or similar is just fine.

 

Any bets on what I did the next day?

 

You betcha…  I went out and bought a bag of grapefruit!  And I started eating them one a day for the next couple months.  I was in Grapefruit Heaven!

 

Since then I have cut down.  I didn’t over do.  I did not get tired by eating too many.  But my obsession with the tart and tasty fruit has gone back to just loving them instead of being obsessed by them.

 

Imagine my interest therefore when I heard about grapefruit pudding.  It’s not so much “pudding” in the U.S. sense of pudding as a dish with a creamy consistency, as in a baked dessert.

And it’s vegetarian (not vegan) friendly!

 

 

 

Uverse to the Rescue?

It’s Deja Vu all over again….

About this time 2 years ago our Uverse TV and Internet started flaking out for a few seconds here and a few seconds there all seemingly intermittently.  It literally took a dozen service calls — the first 9 alternating between inside and outside calls — before the linemen found a cable with cracked insulation half way down the block that would freeze and melt and freeeze again at various times during the day under the spring sun.

Turns out it wasn’t random, just intermittent.  A short caused by water in the line and deteriorated insulation.

The same sort of intermittant thing is happening all over again.

I’ll be curious to see what the problem is this time.    And how many service calls it takes to find a solution.

We’ll call this service call #1.

Related articles on the subject of AT&T Service

• Why I’d Rather Pay More (monicaricci.typepad.com)
• Outage (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com)
• Here Is Every Piece Of Junk Mail AT&T UVerse Sent Me In 2012 (consumerist.com)