This entry began on May 14, 2007 1. I have decided to start to do a three day waiting period before I publish anything on this site and any time I will have anything available to the public in written form, I will give it three days. I won't do it all the time such as I have just put up something about the German POW Karl F. Baatz up and I feel okay enough with that to leave it up. It could be said it's a better idea but I'm going to try to have some faith as well. Sometimes it may be necessary to get something published as soon as possible or something though. I actually am doing it with this very entry as well. I label in "Word pad" the heading "A. Three day waiting period tool for writing". I put an "A." in front of it so it's the first document listed when I open it. I also put a "NOTE" at the beginning that says: "This is also a holding place for notes of writing." I recommend it for all writers (whether it be blogging or something or professional writing) for one because it lets one assess if it's really something one might want to say and it also makes the article better because one finds other points they may have missed and it just helps to perfect the article. About a day later I wrote this: I feel okay enough about this entry and what I will put below that I'm going to put it up now because for one thing, I'm going to be gone for an undermined amount of time tomorrow. 2. The email is a great resource for saving documents in case your computer crashes. Just send your self the document. Title the document something unique so you can search the e mail for it. I know Yahoo allows you to search email. Also, Yahoo has a tool that allows you to look at the e mails you've sent so you won't have to go through as many e mails to find it. Yahoo allows one to send themselves e mails anyway, and I'd say if someone else doesn't then just get a Yahoo account and use it specifically for this purpose! 3. I'd like to see an electronic book holder, like a ipod, that you could store books on that you can read So then this could also be used as an electronic organizer. It would also have a light to read at night. There is only so much one can hold in the pocket but if you had a combination of an IPOD and an electronic organizer and make it thin and about the size of something that would fit well in cargo pants or pants with additional pockets, I think it would be great. This particular gadget could also fold open like a book and you could enter a number to go to a certain page so you could kind of flip through the book. If this happened, it would seem to me one could work on an electronic organizer that stores books and music easily enough. You could probably have a cartridge, like on Play Station2's for storing more. People also need to asses what they most need and there are only so many pockets and also should determine if they need a backpack and when. 4. Having pants with the additional pockets is a great thing and I hope it doesn't go out of style. They just really make sense and I feel like if I can have enough people hearing this, then more people will use pants with additional pockets. Just make all pants have additional pockets. 5. I'd like to see pants that have velcro on the normal pockets and also the back pockets. Some have it on the back but not normally on the normal pockets. Maybe even better would be little zippers on the pockets with those tiny zippers that wouldn't get in the way much. This is because things fall out of my pockets and I get kind of in a state of hysteria when I think about if I'll loose something and it's just the only thing to do to keep things from falling out of the pockets. I'd say if this doesn't happen, somewhat deeper pockets are the way to go and normally it happens with certain pants I have with less deep pockets. You'd think clothing manufacturers would test clothing for comfort and such but sometimes it seems they don't do as good a job as could be done. This is understandable because it all seems like a hard process to me but some clothing manufacturers are pretty good at it, it seems. Being a minimalist, I don't like having uncomfortable clothes or clothes that have some kind of problem and I'm not about to wear uncomfortable clothes nor have things fall out of my pockets and I'm not going to give them to the poor because why then would they want them? I think I'll even go to the dry cleaners and see if they can sow a zipper on some of my pockets and then I'll be able to salvage some of my clothing. 6. Electronic organizers are great for writers but everyone should have something like this. I've found I need an organizer to remember to do things. You never know what you might need to make a note of something. If you use pen and paper (as I currently do), carry around at least two pens because they stop working. 7. You should always have an awareness of when you need to go to the bathroom. If you're going on a ride somewhere, try to asses if it might be well to empty your system. This is a problem that more people need to be aware of. If everyone recognizes this problem, there will be less self inflicted victims caused by ignorance. This attitude can be applied to many situations you may find. This has been a message from the Council Against Self Abuse 8. When's there going to be enough technology that I'll have an enormous library of movies, old shows, and such while even incorporating music possibly that are all by my television so that I can rent them out once and a while with some cable box or something?
9. I have just invested in a small voice recorder. I keep this in my cargo pants and now carry around my digital camera. Digital cameras are great because you can keep all your photos on the computer and it helps the environment as well as reduces the amount of labor. Both of these are great gift ideas and if you've never had a voice recorder, you might not know how cool you might think they would be. I mainly got a voice recorder for making notes. Also, the notes save, even when you change the batteries. I keep a couple of triple a batteries in my pocket incase any of these devices run out of batteries. Updated: Apparently some cell phones have both features already. 10. I have never really realized that the emergency brake (sometimes called the parking brake) will stop the car if your brakes aren't working. Of course I'm not sure all emergency brakes are this effective at stoping cars, but I tried this out today, and it just about stopped the car entirely. I'm sure it would have stopped it entirely, but I didn't want to come to a complete stop. I suppose this is why it's called an "emergency brake." 11. Have you ever bought coffee and then realized it was unground beans? Well if you have a blender you should be fine. Just put the beans in the blender and push the "grind" button. I actually used the "blend" button, but I think the "grind" button would work just fine too. So push the "grind" button, and be patient. Eventually it should cycle through all the beans, and you'll have perfectly ground coffee. I was actually amazed to see that it cycled through the whole bag. Again, I accidentally used the "blend" button, but I'm convinced the "grind" will do the same thing. If it doesn't then just use the "blend" button. It has a little more coffee grinds at the bottom of the pot, but it's not all that big a deal. (I will update when I try this again to state how it goes). 12. Maybe they should charge 25-50 cents per e-mail so we don't get a bunch of crap. It would basically be like postage so you'd get a few junk e-mails, but it seems to be a better system. Maybe they should even have to pay you to send you an e-mail (or at least a percentage of the profit). 13. If you use a nonelectric shaver, it helps to remove the hair that's in between the multiple razor blades with a thin sowing needle so you can get more use out of your razor. I'm currently on the 5th use. I'll let everyone know how far I get with this. There is also this thing called a styptic. It's a white thing that you rinse a little bit to get it wet, and when you cut yourself shaving then you rub it on the cut. Then you lick your finger a little after a while and wipe off the excess white stuff. It not only provides a sealant for the cut to stop bleeding, but in my experience it has always stopped the bleeding after you remove the excess white stuff. I've put toilet paper on cuts, and it's taken up to an hour for the bleeding to stop. I've heard these things last for years too. I think it's the best deal I've ever gotten on anything I've bought, especially considering that they sell it for like 2 bucks. 14. I would think deaf people realize this be just to make sure. This is for the deaf and those who know deaf people but everyone might be able to pass this information of to the deaf someday (actually this will tell you how to pass this information on to them): So I was at this place and there were two deaf people (who might have been a couple) and they were asking me for some spare change. I couldn't quite understand them (although I suspected they might have needed a quarter or something) so I wrote something on a piece of paper to ask what they wanted. I didn't have any change, but after that they then asked other people through (via) the paper. So it is kind of strange to me, but if anyone who's reading this who's deaf or knows someone who's deaf, you should let them know about paper communication because it opens up a world of communication that otherwise would not be known for you or them. 15. Here is a link which keeps toilets from overflowing: http://www.plumbingsupply.com/toiletoverflowmanager.html. It's about $85 bucks per toilet (+ shipping probably). 16. A DIET PLAN At the bottom of this article, I give my thoughts on what they say about calories. The heading is in bold. NOTE: I continuously use the number 2000 for this calorie diet plan. I just use that as an example. You might find out you need to start with 3000 calories (or more or less) and work your way down from there. NOTE #2: I was having a little trouble with weight gain recently due to a medication I'm taking called Seroquel. This diet plan is not at all designed for only those who take Seroquel. I will tell you what might help you if you take Seroquel; the best way of reading this for those who take Seroquel is to first read everything in this entry #16 (which is an entry within an entry) and then read what the end will talk about which is what works for me with Seroquel. Before I say anything in this article: the most effective diet plan I've ever come across involves eating foods that don't taste good. If you're committed enough: when you look at food which is tempting, you might already know you're not to eat it- then you don't even consider eating it. By doing this (in my experience), you're stomach adjusts and quiets down. My personal example was simply eating rice and oil. For health reasons, I got too concerned and couldn't continue to do it although I wonder about what they tell me. What they were telling me was that I was not getting enough protein. I'm sure they would say there were many other problems with this diet. Anyway, I was losing serious weight with this plan. Now to the rest of the article. I'm convinced the most effective diet plan has everything to do with calories. This diet can be summed up by simply finding out how many calories you eat on average and reduce the calories at a pace that fits for you- slowly or quickly but simply reducing the calories. I will just give useful information which will help you to do this. So what you need to do first is track how many calories you eat on an average day. The way to do this is by looking at the nutrition facts on food under calories. Beware because you need to also look at how many servings are in a certain food and then you need to multiply the calories by the amount of servings. For instance, if there are two servings in a microwave sandwich you bought and it says there are 350 calories then there are 700 calories: 350*2=700. So the first thing everyone needs to know is that these sweet foods like donuts might quite likely be what is causing you to be overweight. Consider that it is not uncommon for calories in donuts to be 300 calories. So if you eat seven donuts then you've just eaten 100 calories more than someone who bases his or her diet on 2000 calories which is listed on the bottom of the nutrition facts. So what will really help you is drastically reducing those sweets. I look at it like this: a microwave meal tastes good, and a lot of foods taste good so it's never been hard for me to stop eating sweets. Of course, you need to know that if you eat a lot of sugar, then you might have a bit of an addiction so when you stop eating sugar your body might have some cravings. One thing you can do about this is taper off the sweets. But you can eat other foods other than sweets so I don't really believe it will be all that hard. If it is, you must be determined to stop eating sweets, and after you do, you will be free from these things which might give you so much problems. Another thing that cause a lot of calories is fast food and restaurant food. I personally rule these places out. One reason is because I can't keep track of the calories. And yet a Big Mac is 550 calories so you might find you could work a Big Mac into your diet. One thing about fast food is it isn't the most filling of foods, but you should just do what works for you. Health and money should factor in when eating fast food though. I'm not sure what kind of calories a restaurant has, but I kind of suspect it has more calories than fast food. That reminds me, a lot of meats don't have calorie information of them. I really think they should, but you can get an idea by researching calorie information on the computer. With restaurants, some places have a phone # you can call such a Little Ceasars. I looked into a large cheese pizza which turned out to be about 2000 calories as I recall. So I think sweets will always need to be dramatically reduced if you a lot of them. Then you should be cautious with fast food and restaurants. Now Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, and Smart Ones t.v. dinner type things are great for losing weight. So here is a diet plan for someone trying to reduce their diet to 2000 calories: you could eat 1 donut which consists of 275 calories or what might be a better way to go is to eat a healthy bowl of cereal which might be about 400 calories. Then during the day you might choose to eat two of the Lean Cuisines (or healthy choice or Smart Ones-whichever you prefer) which consists of 400-500 calories total (some are more calories than 200-250 but I try to pick the ones which are 200-250 a piece). So then you're at about 725 or so. Then you might realize that you still have 1275 calories left. Now you might very well be a little hungry every now and then so you might want to eat snacks or something. So now let's say you have 900 calories left. One way to go is to eat a Tony's Pizza for dinner which is about 900-1000 or if you need less calories then you still could eat a Totino's Pizza which is about 700. So I've thrown out some suggestions which you might want to do. The best thing to do is to mix around with all kinds of foods and see what works best for you. One thing that is important is to make sure you time your eating habits in a way that works best for you. You might find you get hungry the most at around 4:00 p.m. or something; don't worry about when you eat although I would think it's best to space it out, but worry most about what you eat and how much of that you do. It is worth noting that you can eat 10-200 calorie Lean Cuisines each day on a 2000 calorie diet if this is what works for you. You could also get an eight pack of mini donuts (I'm not sure the brand, but it has "sun" in it's name) which is 520 calories. Then you could have a big mac at 550 calories for lunch. That would leave you with 930 left on a 2000 calorie diet. One thing that I find is not a bad way to go is eggs. Eggs are about 80 calories a piece. I like to make about 6 eggs with 100 calories of cheese. Then I put 75 calories worth of salsa in. This is about 650 calories. So that should give you insight into calories and I hope you find it useful. It is also worth noting that if you exercise, you will need more calories. There are only two things that are different I can think of if you exercise. One is that you will eat more calories if you exercise, but it is all the same in that you need to find out how many calories your averaging and reduce from there. The other thing is that you might not exercise every day though so you might find you need to eat less calories some days and more other days. Now I will talk about a couple of things you can do to make your diet as easy as possible. The first thing involves a key mentality which is ACCEPTANCE and eradicating anything which causes you to entertain the possibility of eating more than what is on your diet plan. If you do not do this then you will probably be continuously entertaining the idea of eating which will make you deprived, and you will dwell on eating more. If you refuse to go over your planned amount of calories (your diet plan), I think it will be easier for you; I know it has made things easier for me. So after you eat what is on your diet plan then proceed to do something such as drinking a cup of coffee or going on the computer. I recommend going on the computer instead of watching t.v. because there is less temptation from commercials. One way or the other, walk away from the kitchen and try to forget about food; refuse to dwell on things. What you need to do is accept that you will only eat at certain times of the day. You must not dwell on not being able to eat. Sometimes all you need to do is get out of the kitchen. Another thing I've noticed is what happens if you eat a something and then wait 5-10 minutes. Then, if your anything like me, you'll find the food has set into you stomach and your no longer hungry. The best example I know of which demonstrates this is from ordered pizza although it continuously is 100% effective for me with other foods and not to the extreme of what I am saying as ordered pizza well also it is more useful. Have you ever eaten a whole bunch of pizza and then, afterward, felt like your stomach was about to tear open (or that your stomach felt twice as fat as it appeared)? While you're eating it, you might feel hungry at the time, but after your done you realize that you ate to much. This seems to be because the food has not made it to your stomach so you still feel hungry. Whatever it is, often times with me, if I eat and then wait five to ten minutes then I become more satisfied. If your still suffering from hunger after all I've said in this diet plan, you might try to look at the pain with a more positive attitude. Try to say to yourself that you can beat it and that it's not that bad. Concentrate on identifying what the pain is, and instead of dwelling on it, try to overcome it. I haven't had much experience with this one as it has never quite reached that point (it's just been noticed although I've never been able to do it myself), but I still feel that dwelling on the pain will make it harder, and looking at it positively will make it easier. Even try to convert the painful feeling into a happy feeling. One way or the other, I think it will help if you have a positive attitude. Hopefully and prayerfully, you won't need to be concerned with this paragraph because everything before this paragraph works great for you. I know it did for me. Sure, it's a little hard sometimes, but I'm telling you, the acceptance and trying to not worry about hunger really works for me. One reason I know this is because I decided I would only eat rice and oil at one point in my life (which was not healthy), and I was loosing 4lbs a day because I accepted that I wouldn't eat anything else. One thing you might need to take into account is if you're one to wake up at night and eat. You simply have to plan your calories so you take eating at night into account. If you get hungry right before you go to bed (as I do sometimes) then you might want to leave something to eat on your nightstand. I simply eat my big meal right before I go to bed. It sometimes helps to just accept that you can't eat during the night, but the problem is you might not be able to get to sleep; that's why I eat at that time. Nobody wants to deal with loss of sleep because their hungry, and nobody wants to deal with forcing themselves to get up and get food so it helps to leave food on your nightstand. I eat at night and when I wake up every once and a while, I'm not hungry, but before I did this I was entirely hungry. I've done some limited research about eating before you go to bed. It appears it's not true that it will affect your weight and/or health if you eat right before you go to bed. I know that in my experience, I have consistently been losing weight even though I've been eating right before I go to bed. They call eating before you go to sleep being bad "an old wivestale". I also forgot to mention that as with all things, prayer can help. Just a simple prayer to the Ultimate Powers & the Powers to help this to be easy and effective for you can help. Maybe it ought to be included in a blessing. So this all leads up to what to do if you take Seroquel. What works for me is to do what I've been talking about and eat most of my calories before I go to bed. I used to wake up at night, and eat more than I usually ever have in my life in one sitting. Now it is no longer a problem. If you take Seroquel at a time other than right before you go to bed, I would think all you need to do is plan to eat at the times when you are hungry. Amidst it all, I used to have to get up while almost being ready to faint because I was so doped up so this helps for weight loss and for what matters most which is a life without suffering. Reiteration and conclusion: I also forgot to mention that as with all things, prayer can help. Just a simple prayer to the Ultimate Powers & the Powers to help this to be easy and effective for you can help. Maybe it ought to be included in a blessing. My thoughts on calorie intake and how this diet has worked for me: They tell you that a certain amount of calories are needed for energy. Don't worry about what they say; worry about how you feel. I started my diet with basically eating about 1600 calories because this was not hard for me. I have gone from 153 to 147 rather quickly. I am trying to get to 140 or possibly less because I'm trying to be a minimalist. I am not at all active, but I'm sure I'm not what they call "sedentary" (inactive to a substantial degree). They say you need so many calories, and they say it's unhealthy to be underweight. I think that as long as I don't notice any problem with energy, I'm getting a fine amount of calories. I tell you: forget about what they say about calories and use them to lose weight. I also know weight loss centers sometimes tell some of their clients to get 1600 calories and I even think they really said 1200, but I can't remember; it was no more than 1600 though. 17. You can find non-nicotine cigarettes to help you quit at http://www.quitsmokingcigarettes.net/. I quit with these things. Buy as much as you need to last two weeks. They say your "out of the woods" after that. It's important that you don't smoke regular cigarettes after you commit to these. You can feel the nicotine's grasp leave you while you smoke these. Then you have to get used to not smoking anything which is a bit of a struggle. The main thing with that is cravings will come and annoy you a bit, but you've just got to keep resisting and the more refuse to smoke, the easier it gets. All I know is smoking these made quitting smoking far easier than it ever was without them. 18. I do not feel prisoners should not be allowed to write books. What do you have to be afraid of? Truth? I personally believe it is very hard to convince people to do the wrong thing. Not impossible though considering the media often times seems to have done just that. So then, unless it's the part of the media who try to make rape look much worse than it is (probably to cause vengeance)* or say death is the worst thing in the world or who make you concerned about anything but pain etc. (which consists of powerful, prayerful Christians) people are not going to be led astray by wrong words. *Try looking at it from a virgin's perspective. So unless rape causes creation, it is poetic justice to me. Even at that, Christians condone creation even if rape caused the insemination... and they are the connotations of "gayation*"... and this is a sick nation... just ask Charles Manson. *They wish they were as cool as the gays. They never were though and got angry. Due to their anger, they cursed gays and humiliated them... one reason being that they were made fun of by the gays originally (in a place far away and long ago) so they made fun of them for liking to be happy* *I'm not ecstatic about happiness myself, but I don't really care and sometimes it helps so...* *So you all can take it in the a**. * *Which is one thing you'll be destined to do* *Especially when you go to Heaven.* *Especially you, Mafia. (actually, I'm referring to the corrupt police forces (not to say all cops are corrupt either). If you like the corrupt police whom cause pain and torture then you can know I'm talking to you, also. I think the Catholics and Christians tricked the original Mafia into thinking it was wise and knew how to handle things. Of course, everyone wants to trick the Mafia. I'm not ascared of you neiths, bloods and crips. The self appointed and newly appointed king of the universe with limited power, damage, and liability has invisible and clear protection. I am the ultimate king of you all. Whom else, who cares. No one can mess with me's. Irish and Mexican Mafias don't know anything eiths (probably because the "CIA" cencors me). Take Care. PS: I'm not afraid of you, but you know by reading the above what I am (the leader of the crips, bloods, mafias... and any of you really suffering ancient before the earth ones. I'm also the failing leader of the Catholics (soon to be Nocrosslikes) and the rest of you. Signed: Rightness.* *Your starting to turn me on actually. * *And I'm not even gay anymore. (Update: this might be more in referance to cops, and possibly to the Mafia.) Yeah, we all know you wanted to be cool. Too bad people only thought you were cool when you were killers. Now you've come out of the closet and showed yourselves to be corrupt cops. You think people will like you, but not even you can convince people those people are cool. You really don't have any idea, do you? I got you by the testicles (and not even in a bad way). You just don't know why. What are you gonna do, make a "saint" out or me or just kill me and make me a "martyr". 19. Alright, that will do it for the above one. It's a little of a problem cause it takes away from my agenda of classification on this segment so I will try to not do that anymore. So here is an imperative thing people need to know: you need to keep a key in your wallet. This is how to have access to unlocking your car so do it as soon as possible. (I do support keeping keys under the engine if you would like to though (also). Go out to the key place at your convenance (unless your one of the ones out there who need to get it sooner), and make a new key (it's like $5). I learned about this from stealing a wallet when I was younger. It had a key holder. You don't need a key holder; just put your key in one of your wallet pockets. Then keep your wallet upright at all times. Teach yourself to do this and you will. It will still fall out twice a year on average; but only that if you keep to this rule: always carry your wallet. Transfer your pockets and keep stuff you need in your pockets (when you need them; you always need your wallet). 20. Give everyone a computer. Stop wasting paper (idiots) I'm not an idiot 'cause have come to almost entirely not waste paper over two months ago). Give all prisoners a computer. The Ultimate Powers will determine the fun they have. The reality is some of you don't like where the Ultimate Powers are directing things towards nowadays, but you better not try to work against them (unless your right). I shouldn't have to tell anyone why. You don't have faith, you know. And give all prisoners access to all law books (in electronic form) ,and someone write them in ways that are understandable. A computer is everyone's right. If you have to be the ones to do this, government, then do so. Stop trying to keep groups down (let people be able to defend themselves (one judge told me that was enlightening); you ever notice the way people rise from suppression. No, this idea of suppressing yourselves (Christians) won't work. You're stupid enough to think so though. Let's be honest because I know that and you know that. It's just about common knowledge that the average Christian is an idiot beyond belief. 21. I find that that 3 Ramen noodles a day is a great diet (3-6 dependant on what you need). I had to experiment, but this seems to be the best way to go. Think about it: it's like a dollar a day. Every time you buy something, you give it to the corporations. If you buy from a family restaurant, they give it to the corporations. It's like we're recycling ourselves into the wrong types of theft and slavery. We should be doing better things with our time. If we have more money from Ramen, at least we can progress out of the vice (intentional or unintentional) of restaurants. We should do better though. I recommend to wait until things become easy enough before proceeding with this though. Even if you've convinced yourself you're the only one alive, still make sure to fix everything until you KNOW you're the only one alive. We should buy from small businesses because we all know the corporations have too much money. Small business should buy from small business, also. This is a pacifist war (I don't think it is quite a contradictory term) against corporations and also a peacful form of protest. 22. You say you're pro-life (I'm pro-death but abide by laws currently; I hear there will be the final war of contemplation (the war of justice) which is about life or death), but pain brings about abortion AND SHOULD (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). If you want life, try to end pain. And if you stop thinking about your G**D*** selves, then some others might be able to live one day, but until then, you are (dare I say it) murders in spirt. Trust me, I got you (them) blocked and there is no G**D*** way our ultimate plan will fail. It's a very intricate system. After all we've had to deal with from you f***s, you can bet we got that set up and eternally ordered... yes eternally ordered, and no, you kill yourselves by not submitting to my demands (or could?) all the while (all the while) you somewhere know it's not life but vengeance you want (or some of you anyway). You won't get eternal Hell, idiots; you won't even get Hell. High pains have been turned off (I'm not sure how recently this happened). It's funny the way we're continually dying (past selves separate from future selves), and yet you cringe like it would matter if someone came in substitution of you... even if it was a recreation of yourself (which it is for all practical purposes) lol. 22. Giant, skyscraper wind energy machines where the it's more windy where it's higher? I wrote a letter, recommending this to just about all wind companies. Fields of solar energy. Rivers with as many generators as necessary. Lines and lines of electricity generators through the many rivers. A country run by nature? 23. Can we build rivers? Is this a natural salt eradicating procedure? MMM, they need evaporation, huh? 24. I am working on a political agenda. 25. If the blesed Ramen is currently too hard for you to eat exclusively, here is a simple recipe (1 hour, 15 minutes or so of preperation time required): Zesty Meat Loaf (American recipe) My Dad said this was the best meatloaf he'd ever had. Actually, he just agreed with me when I said it. -This recipe can be doubled, tripled, halved...etc. I recommend buying bulk meat in quantities similar to the amount you will be serving. What I mean is that they have those giant ground beef things efficiently wrapped in plastic. Ingredients: 2 pounds (lbs.) ground beef 2 eggs 3/4 cup bread crumbs 1 somewhat small chopped onion 1 can diced tomatoes 1 fairly rounded teaspoon garlic salt, one well rounded tablespoon of pepper + a touch more (this is what makes it zesty) 5 pieces of bacon torn into bits after cooled down (see directions) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. 2. Put all ingredients except bacon in a casserole dish or large bowl . If you don't have a bowl, put the ingredients in a pan with sides elevated at around an 1.25 inches or more. Of course, you need to make sure the pan is not hot when you are mixing it in something other than a bowl. Make sure to assess the bowl and/or pan so as to see if the ingredients will fit inside before mixing. You also need to make sure there is extra room in the bowl or pan when mixing because otherwise, the ingredients will run over the top which would make it painful/strenuous to mix together. That is just the way mixing things in a bowl works. 3. Place in the oven, and cook it for an hour. 4. Well waiting for the meatloaf, cook the bacon*. Once it is cooked, place it on a plate with a paper towel underneath and let stand until cool enough to tear with hands. Tear up bacon into small bits WHEN IT IS NOT HOT. After serving, sprinkle bacon bits on plates. -Makes 4 to 5 servings *To cook Bacon in Microwave: One way of cooking bacon is to place a paper towel on a microwavable plate and put the bacon on top; then proceed to put another paper towel on top of the bacon. You need to cook it one minute per bacon slice. After that, you need to see if it needs more time by estimating how cooked it is. Usually, I need to cook it a couple of more minutes in my microwave. In this case, crispier bacon takes longer to cool but is easier to tear up. Add patience by occupying your time while waiting by reading the newspaper or something (laptop plus internet is recommended). If your time is "easful"/peaceful by doing this then I recommend to wait until the bacon is crispier before tearing the bacon up. | 