I thought he looked a little like Chef Boyardee.

I did some work for em a while back. I used to be in the material handling biz.

Also, they allow for a certain % of bug excrement and rodent particles. Just so you know that that stuffs not not in there. MmmmMMM good.

What was your position in the industry?





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I worked for a consultant firm that did engineering studies and subsequent product handling for a number of food and other product manufacturing. Remember Butter Finger BB's? That was us.

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Back in my pre-veggie days I used to love Chef B's Spaghetti & Meatballs and Campbell's Spaghettios & Franks. Something about the sweet sauce paired with the savory meatballs/franks appealed to me. i've always liked sweet/savory stuff.
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Well then they use some nasty oregano.

There's just something about the texture of the noodles with the sauce that just makes me happy.

Whoa, I remember those! What a blast from the past.

Best thing you can do to any traditional pasta sauce recipe it to add extra sugar! I do it with most jar sauces too.

I mean I feel like that's probably true of everything we eat? Chef boyardee is trash though. Whatever it is they put in that ****ing awful sauce is the kind of **** that you use a plastic bowl one time and it will taste like remnants of Chef boyardee for years after that.

They gave me an entire case. lol

I had it backwards, it's bug particles and rodent excrement, but yeah. There's variations of percentages based on the product.

They being the FDA, right?

Yarp. It's been a while since that job, so I got curious and went digging:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/healt...0rodent%20dung.

I'm suffering severe insomnia. I haven't left my bed much in six weeks save for bowls of cereal and a bit of tidying. Waking up for the day at midnight is awful, as I'm alone and trapped inside my mind.

A brief visit from some friends was great medicine for melancholy, but these long stretches of weeks without human contact and days bleeding into nights wreaks havoc on my ability to sleep. I try to go to bed at 7 every day and take as much melatonin as I can stand, but sometimes that's just not enough.

I'm going to try taking 100mg of melatonin to see if that gets me some rest. I've been googling insomnia treatments but can't find anything that works. :(

If anyone has a tip of what works for them I'd love to hear your ideas.

I’ve not suffered from insomnia, but I imagine some of yours is caused or exacerbated by anxiety, in which case I recommend progressive muscle relaxation. It can be as a guided meditation, or just an internal dialogue, but it works to relax the body and mind, and is one of the techniques used in the military to train themselves to sleep anywhere, anytime.

That's excellent advice, WWP; thank you. I have a severe anxiety disorder and am medicated for it. My daily strategies to combat anxiety include the prescription drugs, plus 10mg melatonin just before bed at 7, nightly chamomile mint tea, several hours of drone music meditation daily, and more drones at a low volume with sleep headphones through the night. I also verbally coach myself all throughout the day, and start each day with a positive mantra recitation to try and start on a good note.

Despite these efforts I still often wake at midnight and am trapped in my head until I can get to sleep the following evening.

I recognize that one of the challenges is, as I mentioned, that I haven't really gotten out of bed much in 6 weeks. That may be making it difficult for my body to know when to go into sleep mode. I live alone and seldom leave the house so I have very little human contact each month, but at least that way I'm not disturbing anyone with my restlessness. I am free to pace the house at any hour I wish.

I've searched local community event calendars and have come up with at least one event to explore each day this week so at least it breaks up the monotony of laying in bed all day until I can pass out. Maybe those events will help.

This is awful. :(

Exercise really helps. I know it's easier said than done, but there's nothing better for general wellbeing.
Try to get out more, especially somewhere with a lot of green. Seeing daylight, especially in the morning after waking up is important and helps setting your inner clock.
Also limit the time you stare at screens or at least use blue light filters.

I find it helps to read. If you actively try to keep yourself awake to, say, finish a chapter, I usually end up having real trouble staying awake. Music worked for me when I was a kid; I used never to be able to sleep then I bought a radio and listening to the music lulled me off to sleep. Doesn't happen any more, so maybe that's just when you're young. Karen often has the same problem - and she's taking zoplidem tartrate, which we're told is the strongest sleep medication available here - and I tell her it's something that's on her mind which is keeping her from sleeping, coupled with this self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking she won't sleep, and so she doesn't. Can't do it for you, ISB, of course, but I have her toy cat Millie talk to her and promise she'll sleep, and that usually works. Not a lot of help, I know. There's also the old remedy of going for a small hours walk to tire yourself out. Hope you manage to get some sleep; I remember what it was like not to be able to just close your eyes and drift off.

We also have stress relief tablets here called Kalms, and a thing called Rescue Remedy, which seem to help her. I don't know if you have them where you are?

12 Mg Melatonin and 2 Benedryl about 90 mins before bedtime. Been doing this for years now.

And most importantly - if you decide to try reading, Bradbury is a poor choice.:rofl:

I'd suggest something much 'lighter'.

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all your suggestions. I'll research and try everything you mentioned. The last book I tried in bed was Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. I plowed through all 652 pages in two sittings. But perhaps the utter transformation of humanity to an AI hyperconsciousness isn't the best "wind-down" reading before sleep.

I might sleep better if/when the state ever gets back to me about unemployment benefits.

Thanks again.

You could take comfort in knowing people out here care, if that helps. I really do hope you get some sort of resolution soon.

All good advice for what must be a very uncomfortable situation, ISB.

I "times two" on grindy's advice. Perhaps it's difficult because of your anxiety issues, but I think you should try to make your days as distinct as possible from your nights, so congrats on finding some community activities. If you can, use your daytime to be in the sunlight, moving around.
I once had mild sleep probs and found this piece of simple advice: only use your bed/bedroom at night.
I also learned that some people don't need many hours of sleep, which is why I'm surprised to see that you go to bed at 7. If you are actually a 5-hours-sleep-a-night person, trying to get 8 hours sleep a night is not going to work. Perhaps instead, try adapting your lifestyle to accomodate more waking hours: reading at the end of the day as TH suggests, but mainly in a chair, with just a last page or two in bed. Personally, I don't listen to much drone music, but I do like drone videos: have you ever watched those on Youtube? I find bird's-eye view footage of the Norwegian coast very soothing when my mind is exhausted but not yet sleepy.

(Also Chula says, don't read Bradbury - try reading one of our political discussion threads; you'll be asleep in seconds ;) )

innerspaceboy, hope you get some sleep. I bet some exercise would help

If you get desperate, ISB, I can send you some more of my stories. They'll send you to sleep for sure! :laughing:

Keep an eye on him, Elph. My cousin's best friend drowned in my cousin's swimming pool when he was going through the DTs. It wasn't pretty.

I don't understand people who only **** once a day. I take three ****s just to start the day.

I take three shits in the morning
I take three shits at night
I take three shits in the afternoon
It makes me feel all right
I take three shits in time of peace
And three in time of war
I take three shits before I take three shits
And then I take three more

Not only do I only take one ****, I don't give two.

Funnily enough, I do too.

idk why, it never happened a couple of years back

I'm pretty insomnia-prone if I'm not careful. One thing that was really helpful for me is treating my bed as a sacred space only for sleeping and ****ing. No reading, browsing, or chilling in the bed so that your mind gets accustomed to falling asleep there. If I need to lay down but don't want to sleep, I'll hit the couch or do floor stretches instead.

Really? You never skip a day?

Die on a hill: silverware in a dishwasher - handle up or down?

Down.

Why would I grab a fork by the dirty side? Handle up.

Do you mean not pooping three times in a morning or not pooping all day? Cause if the former then mostly no but if the latter then Wtf.

Handle up.

I'm sure handle down gets them cleaner but when I'm putting them away it's faster with handle up, I'm not putting my grubby hands on the part that directly touches food and goes in the mouth and it's dangerous, especially with knives, to have a bunch of pokey things sticking up. With young kids around you definitely don't want to risk a toddler reaching in and grabbing a knife by the blade. And I did watch the first season of Chucky.

Handle up - the only time its a pain in the ass is when you need a spoon or fork from the dish rack, and it takes like 5 tries to get what you're looking for

Knives go blade down but everything else is handle down.
I want the dirty water dripping down the handle at the end, not down the part that goes in my mouth.

Ever taken a look at the bottom of those little silverware bins? Gross **** lives down there.