I Feel a Rant Coming On

Has anyone else noticed that jars are getting more difficult to open; not that I’d admit to losing my grip. I’m nostalgic for the good old days when everything you bought didn’t come with layers of security devices one has to fight through to get to the good stuff. And who was it that invented those child-proof medicine containers that only a child can open?

I abhor the blister paks everything seems to come packed in these days. Thanks to MP3 downloads one no longer has to fight one’s way into a CD without breaking the jewel case that holds it. Opening a DVD is quite another matter, especially those ones that come with a strip across the top. Fighting one’s way to most electronic devices requires more tools than I presently possess and a college degree in engineering. The violence involved in getting to some devices belies the often fragile nature of the contents.

Anyone who counts calories, has to watch their cholesterol, or avoid salt had best avoid prepared foods. I just noticed that one serving of the spaghetti sauce I just fought open contains 1/3 of the recommended daily consumption of salt, guess I’d best start reading labels more closely. The serving size is 4 oz meaning the bottle contains nearly twice the daily recommended intake of salt. Iced tea mix and lemonade mixes seem to be flavoured sugar; they may not contain the 12 teaspoons in a can of pop but sugar is still the principle ingredient. If anyone can advise me on an affordable microwave popcorn that is not loaded with both fat and horrors palm oil plus salt please drop a comment. Alas I find unsalted tacos tasteless but a recommended serving of the salted variety that contains an entire day’s recommended intake of sodium is about 8 chips, who stops at 8?

Just finished watching disk 4 of the eighth season of X-Files including the one in which Fox Mulder comes back from the dead. Only on network TV would a character be resurrected because he finally settled the contract dispute he had with the show’s producers. As I remember he complained about the dampness of Vancouver and separation from his wife. The show of course got moved and his wife got a show produced in Vancouver.