Chicken recipe

• boneless, skinless, Chicken breast

Batter

• eggs
• Garlic
• dill
• Paprika
  

Breading

• Corn flakes
• Mrs dash lemon pepper
  

Batter, bread, Bake at 400 for 50 minutes

Blood pressure woes

I found out that my blood pressure was 160/90. That is what I get for eating that ham and cheese. Anyway, I thought it would settle down at the end of the day, but it would settle down at the end of the day. It didn't.

So, I ran on the treadmill for 20 minutes. I was all sweaty. A couple of hours later, my blood pressure was 123/80. That is much better. I believe that the sodium I exude through the sweat helped to relieve the blood pressure.

Anyway, in my search for low sodium snacks, I found the following foods were great:

• Shredded wheat cereal
• Sweet potatoes
• Grits
• Honey mustard pretzels. (a little high, but lower than most.)
• raisins
• air-popped popcorn
• Carrots and other veggies
  

Surprisingly, the following had a high sodium content:

• Bread (especially English muffins)
  
• Chicken breast
• canned mushrooms
  

I have done bland before. After about a month without salty food, one gets used to it. Here's to bland for life. At least I won't be taking pills for making salty choices. Keeping my blood pressure down will keep my heart and veins/arteries from wearing out at an early age.

Puritan goes Hollywood

Cook noodles.

• 1 jar cheese dip
• 2 cans cream mushroom
• 1 can cream celery
• 1 lb frozen california blend vegetables, thawed and chopped
  
• 4 oz Romano cheese
  
• 2 sticks butter
• 1 can tomato soup
• 4 bay leaves
• garlic powder
• dill
• 1 lb turkey meat, diced
  
• 2 lb noodles
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 green pepper, diced
  

Mix everything together except noodles
simmer
boil noodles
drain
pour sauce over noodles

About abortion

Abortion kills a developing child. Inside the mother, the developing human depends on the mother for nutrients. This is not much different than the case of a newborn. A newborn has to be fed or it will die. He has no inkling of how to feed himself or stay safe.

Spiritually, this falls under "You shall not murder", Exodus 20:13 . The fact that a human in the womb has cells which divide classifies it as life. To stop those cells from dividing through a deliberate intervention would be considered murder. This also has legal implications. Science is clear hear. Once the egg cell is fertilized and starts to divide, that is a living organism. I only mention this because there are people who would say "so where in the bible is abortion forbidden?" However, it does not have to be in the bible. It is in the law as well.

Logically, a woman can do with her body what she wants. Every cell in her body has the same DNA. However, the developing human in her uterus has different DNA, and is not her body. The organism (whatever we decided to name the stage of development) inside the pregnant mother is, in every cell, a totally different human organism than the mother. As such the developing human should have rights. Every human should have the right to live, even if that human is dependent on someone else for survival. This also applies to people who are incapacitated.

Why isn't abortion an issue with domestic pets? We could say that a dog with an unwanted pregnancy should have an abortion. This does not usually happen because it is acceptable to kill a surplus of domestic pets. Therefore, an unwanted pregnancy is allowed to go to full term and the offspring are either adopted, or killed. This is the common practice in China for unwanted children. It is more natural and less expensive to let a child die from natural causes (neglect) than to terminate the pregnancy through surgical methods.

Therefore, I am certain that no argument on any moral or legal grounds would justify abortion. The only exception that would be permissible is if the mother would most certainly die carrying the child to term. Especially compelling would be the case where the death of the mother would also kill the developing child, anyway.

Awesome stove-top lasagna

I made some awesome stove-top lasagna today. Here are the ingredients:

• 1 lb meat
• 1 lb lasagna noodles
• 6 oz cottage cheese
• 3 oz Romano cheese
• 4 oz Mozzarella cheese
• 1 jar spaghetti sauce
• 1 can stewed tomatoes (with onion and green pepper)
  
• 1/2 onion, cubed
  
• Italian seasoning
• 1 can mushrooms
• 1/2 can black olives
• 1 can spinach, drained

Brown and drain the meat.
Break the noodles into thirds and boil for 12 minutes. Drain.
Add spaghetti sauce, onions, and mushrooms to the meat. Simmer
Liquefy canned tomatoes in a blender. Add to meat. Season to taste.

Combine meat, noodles, black olives and cheeses
Eat up. Yum!!

Also, you can add Parmesan cheese and garlic.

Ran another 5k

The weather was excellent. 53 F and calm. No sun. I got another 5k run in today. Finished in 30:04. No splits this time.

Some of the trees were a shocking shade of red contrasted with the dull gray fog. I saw and heard a crane fly by down the street.

Pedometer milestone

I reached a new milestone with my pedometer. It is a Pikachu GS, and turns over at 10,000,000 steps. This is the second time I am turning it over. Accumulated 3444 days to turn it over to 20,000,000 steps.

There were also times when I didn't wear it at all. I think the longest stretch was about 8 months.