You were inside your truck!!! Its not the same as going outside.....

Dear diary......we have another palliative person at work. Its weird watching death......it made me think of what its going to be like when I finally kick the bucket. Its not pretty.....but its pretty amazing how the body can live so long and then finally quit.

I know........sounds gross.

whoaaaaaaa seriously fake profiles going on tonight. Like.....we cant tell just because you have 14 pics up???

<----this is me swimming on my bed.........

This is me outside.

And you wonder why I enjoy sport adventure touring outside so much.

your bike would be better with a computer attached to it!!!

Yada yada yada

My laptops on satellite. Where you been with that ancient paperweight?

blah blah blahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

omg you reminded me of one of my patients!!! I can do him perfectly!!!!!

My impression of ***** is

"ya ya ya ya ya ya ya!!!"

I call him grampa!!

this dinosaur has been with me through....a war, a trip to Oz, 1 marriage, 1 divorce, a move, college, and 2 years of celibacy!!!

9 months of celibacy.

Diary of a mime? Interesting!

Dear diary.....do you ever wonder what EXACTLT is gruel??? grewl?

Gaaaaaaaawd I have to google immediately!!

except first I have to read all of my mail from another website!!

Gruel is a type of preparation consisting of some type of cereal, oat, wheat or rye flour, and also rice, boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk than eaten and need not even be cooked. Historically, gruel, often made from millet or barley, or in hard times of chestnut flour and even the less tannic acorns of some oaks, has been the staple of the human diet, especially that of the peasantry. The importance of gruel as a form of sustenance is especially noted for invalids[1] and recently weaned children.

Gruel consumption has traditionally been associated with poverty. Gruel is a colloquial expression of any slop that is of unknown character, e.g. pea soup; soup is derived from sop, the slice of bread which was soaked with broth or thin gruel

Fake profile........interesting!

Gruel was the staple food of the ancient Greeks, for whom roasted meats were the extraordinary feast that followed sacrifice, even among heroes, and "in practice bread was a luxury eaten only in towns" Roman plebeians "ate the staple gruel of classical times, supplemented by oil, the humbler vegetables and salt fish",[3] for gruel could be prepared without access to the communal ovens that baked bread. In the Middle Ages the peasant could avoid the tithe exacted, usually in kind, for grain ground by the miller of the landowner's mill by roasting the grains, to make them digestible, and grinding small portions in a mortar at home and, in lieu of cooking the resulting paste on the hearthstone, simmering it in a cauldron with water, or, luxuriously, with milk.

In the Western Hemisphere, maize gruels were once one of the main food sources for many Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya and Aztecs. Atole was a preparation of ground maize that was often flavored with chili and salt. It could be consumed or drunk both as an important calorie source and as a thirst quencher.


[edit] Etymology
The OED gives an etymology of Middle English gruel from the same word in Old French, both of them depending from a source in Late Latin grutellum, a diminutive, as the form of the word demonstrates, possibly from a Frankish *grūt, surmised on the basis of a modern cognate grout.


[edit] In fiction
In the Western world, gruel is remembered as the food of the child workhouse inmates in Charles ****ens' Industrial Revolution novel, Oliver Twist. The eponymous character asks the master of the workhouse for some more, and is struck a blow to the head for it. Also, in The Simpsons episode "Kamp Krusty", Bart and some of the other children are forced to eat "Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel" as their only meal, punctuated by the comment "Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference." Martin, who spent the episode in fat camp, later remarked, "Sweet, nourishing gruel!" Gruel is also mentioned frequently in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë as a daily staple meal, even amongst the largely middle class families featured in the novel. Gruel is also a recurring joke on the show Charles in Charge. Lead character Scott Baio often referenced the fact that he would rather "eat gruel" then be in the particular situation of the time. The joke peaked when Charles friend Buddy crashes Stan's car into the pool house, upon hearing the news Charles proceeds to eat from a bowl. Buddy asks Charles to bail him out of this situation whereupon Charles replies "This time Buddy, I'm actually going to eat the gruel". Another reference is in the movie Meatballs, Bill Murray awakens campers with the announcement that gruel will be served for breakfast.

A counter example of literary reference to gruel can be found in Jane Austen's Emma, wherein the title character's well-off father, Mr. Woodhouse, is depicted as most fond of it for sustenance, health and good character.

Gruel is also mentioned in another of Charles ****ens' works, A Christmas Carol. He mentions this to emphasize how cheap Ebenezer Scrooge is, due to the fact that gruel is a cheap and easy meal to prepare.

dear diary........I cant believe I now know so much about gruel!!!