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Empty Cafe

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

There’s a little ‘hole in the wall’ cafe not too far from me, well, 5 miles or so, but that’s nothing to us country folk.

Anyhow, we rarely go there, because all they take is cash.

Who carries cash all the time anymore?

You have to be prepared if you’re going to eat there!

When asked about ‘why’ they don’t accept credit cards, they replied that they couldn’t find any Restaurant Credit Card Processing that wasn’t crazy priced. They didn’t feel that ‘not’ taking credit cards hampered their business.

Well, they’re wrong.

We’re proof of that.

In order to be successful, especially when you’re the only restaurant around, you need to be able to accept all forms of payment, including credit cards.

What were they thinking?

empty-cafe

empty-cafe

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Chili-man on a Diet

Monday, September 19th, 2011

EVery now and then, more now than then, we start Chili-man up on another diet. He’s supposed to be low carbing it.

His blood sugar fluctuates and I know that a low carb diet would immensely help him.

He wants to go the easy route though. He’s researched top diet pills but, in my mind, they’re more focused on women.

It has seemed to me, from past experience that men tend to loose weight much easier than women, that is, if they focus on their diet.

That’s part of the problem ladies, we are the grocery shoppers. We are the menu planners. We need to plan all our meals, and ‘goodies’ in the house around the dietary needs of our family members.

That can certainly be hard, especially if your household has different types of people. Active teens need carbs. Husbands sometimes don’t. You might have a vegan in the house, and all those different family members have to be taken into consideration.

Tonight, the menu is salad and soup.

I’ve bought several different salad dressings and an abundance of different veggies to make the salad tonight different from the last salad he ate.

Here’s crossing my fingers that he can stick to it!

small-salad

small-salad

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