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BigOkie's Profile
A registered nurse for 29 years, the last ten of which has been working on implementation of electronic medical records technology for a large healthcare system. I play bass guitar and cook.
Real Name: James Lynch
Location: Oklahoma City
Occupation: healthcare IT
Groups: Cranky Users, Environmental Foodies, Oklahoma Roundup
Hobbies: music, cooking
Twitter: @jim_okc
Diaries published: 5 (4080 days since last diary on Sat Oct 06, 2012 at 04:30 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 4824 (635 days since last comment on Sat Mar 12, 2022 at 05:36 PM PST)
Diary frequency: seldom
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 495
Total Comment Ratings: 16195
Most Recommended Diary: What's For Dinner: Pass the Bread, Please, 203 comments, 40 recommends
People Following BigOkie: 21
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Only mildly amusing as the butt of a child's joke, chiles are serious business in many cuisines. Native to the Americas, they have managed to find their way into nearly every corner of the world ...
by BigOkie
 118 comments
on Sat Oct 06, 2012 at 04:30 PM PDT
with 33 Recommends
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" All the world is a birthday cake. So take a piece, but not too much" ---George Harrison
I consider myself a skilled and accomplished cook. Oftentimes, when discussing cooking with ...
by BigOkie
120 comments
on Sat Jun 25, 2011 at 04:30 PM PDT
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."-- J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
OK, so ...
by BigOkie
113 comments
on Sat Nov 27, 2010 at 02:45 PM PST
with 37 Recommends
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"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."
--Craig Claiborne, Kitchen Primer
Untold thousands, maybe millions, of ...
by BigOkie
172 comments
on Sat Jun 12, 2010 at 03:43 PM PDT
with 36 Recommends
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“Give me yesterday's Bread, this Day's Flesh, and last Year's Cyder.” --Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
Disclosure: I am a registered nurse ...
by BigOkie
203 comments
on Sat Feb 27, 2010 at 04:18 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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- to my commitment to non-violence. Let me explain. First the background. My exposure to Quakers began inj 1963 when I entered Haverford College as a freshman. I knew little about the religion then. We were require to attend Meeting for Worship four...248 comments 295 Recs
- We recently discovered that actor Rick Schroder—who famously portrayed a spoiled little kid in the ‘80s sitcom Silver Spoons—is reprising that role as part of the Washington, D.C., TruckNutz Convoy that’s fecklessly circling Washington in protest of...326 comments 319 Recs
- Many conservatives are in love with the idea of Sweden’s approach—no lockdown. They don’t take into consideration that half of Swedes live alone, or that they have a top-notch universal healthcare system. They just think “no lockdown” is a better...461 comments 515 Recs
- Burger chain Shake Shake did the right thing by reversing course and returning $10 million to the Paycheck Protection Program, but the parent company of Ruth’s Chris Steak House is doing the exact opposite. In returning the money, which is supposedly...115 comments 126 Recs
- A month ago, I described the pandemic of COVID-19 as a before and after time, with a prediction that, when the lead story on every newscast does not include the day’s body count, the world will be strikingly different than it was before coronavirus...222 comments 236 Recs
- Politico’s Dan Goldberg and Alice Miranda Ollstein highlight the dire situation unfolding in St. John the Baptist Parish, La., which currently has the highest per capita coronavirus mortality rate in the nation. Frantic local officials instituted an...342 comments 664 Recs
- Last time we checked in, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of a small, liberal college town, had crept up into the low teens in national polling, making a bid for top-tier status in the Democratic ...600 comments 112 Recs
- In the midst of his rather somnalistic remarks on the conflict with Iran, Donald Trump slipped in some of his standard claims to have “completely rebuilt” the American military in just the last three years. Thankfully, Trump did not wander into his...236 comments 260 Recs
- There is not much good news of late, but there is at least one development, as we slide slickly into 2020, we can be thankful for: the end, at long last, of the War on Christmas. Those of you three ...63 comments 121 Recs
- Thanks for playing, Tulsi. You were already dangling by the most gossamer of threads. And now your failure is complete. From Politico: Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that her party’s...964 comments 347 Recs
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