Did my familial duties today, visiting my dad for Father's Day (I was on-call last weekend) and dropping by my mother's house to do a little more emptying of my room. This led to two more meals out, one at a restaurant near my dad not of my choosing. (Not to say I objected, but I passed on my chance to choose.) I had a Julienne salad for lunch, with nutrition information unknown. After some time in my old bedroom I stopped for dinner at McDonald's, getting the aforementioned Bacon Ranch salad.

This follows two other eating-out incidents. Thursday I went to KFC just to get away from the house after an on-call week. Also, I had a package to pick up at the post office in the vicinity. I had two pieces of grilled chicken and a side of green beans, dutifully ignoring the biscuit. Yesterday I went in to work, so I had dinner at Wendy's. Again, it was the previously identified Cobb salad. They did give me the avocado ranch dressing, and I couldn't resist using both packets. I wish McDonald's had a decent dressing.

Oddly, I faced not getting my first choice twice recently. The KFC by me doesn't carry the grilled Double Down, which is perfect Atkins food (4 carbs) except for adding glue between the thought of that system and the thought of fat people eating disgusting food. Today's restaurant didn't have (as in stopped serving, without removing it from the menu) the stuffed chicken breast that I wanted.

I also erred in forgetting my glucose meter at home, so it's the first day I missed a before-meal reading I'm supposed to have. As a point of interest, I'm going to take a 2-hr. post-meal reading in a few minutes. The last couple days have had good numbers.

In a pathetic attempt to not have this seriously be a five paragraph blog entry about what I've eaten for three days — see the disclaimer to the left, but I'm even disgusting myself — I'll note that I'm up because I have a bit of work to contribute at midnight, finishing up my day of duties. Tomorrow might just be a lot of video games. This week I got my Windows partition running well enough through VirtualBox to run Civ3. (Yes, the 2001 release. It's what I have, and it's a good match for my 5+ year old computer even when not virtualized.) Goodbye, real world!