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MMWS: The End– Wow, that was… something.

Hi.  Remember me?

It has been an interesting couple of weeks.  By ‘interesting’, I mostly mean ‘bad’.  I don’t want to get into the whole thing out here in the public square, but things went a little haywire.

Oddly enough, I stuck to the deal, more or less.  And, by the old clock on the wall, My [...]

MMWS: Day 9 – And with that, summer is officially, totally over.

If you’re looking at this live, you’ll see that the temperature in Portland is in the mid-to-low 40s.  On top of that it’s windy and rainy.  Any illusion of late, late summer is brought harshly to reality if you so much as look out a window.  Tonight’s garbage (and yard debris) night, and I walked [...]

MMWS: Day 8 – And on the 8th day…

OK, I know I said I’d blog about the experiment every day, but… I had a special guest come to visit today and didn’t have a chance.  Now I’m too tired.

Let’s see… sweets… sugar… corn syrup… um…

Didn’t really come up to be honest.  Probably because I wasn’t incessantly shouting about it into people’s faces.

In any [...]

MMWS: Day 5 – Chemistry Class

I’ve spent about five days now explaining to people the theory behind a) my book, and b) my ridiculous experiment.

Common objections:

“But honey’s ALL NATURAL!”
“You really ought to cut out ALL simple carbohydrates.”
“So, you’ll drink alcohol, but you won’t eat sugar.  Alcohol is made from sugar.  God, I hate you.”
“Get off my lawn!”

And so forth.  But [...]

My Month Without Sweeteners (MMWS): Day 1

This is seriously going to be tough.

Last night, I was writing until the wee hours, and I must have made a dozen failed trips to the kitchen for a snack.  Now, obviously, my Trader Joe’s chocolate covered cranberries were out.  Clearly, I could not eat Newman-Os.  Let’s see… yogurt… no… honey-roasted peanuts… pita chips have [...]