And on the seventh day

He rested.

Rainy weekend

Watching the parallel snowboard GS, they are racing in the rain and sleet.   I bet the IOC never gives the Winter Games to another low elevation, maritime climate host city.  At least the real skiing events were at Whistler.

TGIF!

But I still have to go to work.

Rushing

I have an appointment thus morning,  so just a dump & run.

3rd time's a charm

At least I hope so.  Amazingly noxious odor.

#2

Normal morning

Not much else to say:

Field work

I was out of the office doing field work today so my deposit was dropped off in a sanican.  Even if it weren't really dark down there,  nobody (not even I) wants to see that...

Round 2

Considering the amount of cabbage I ate yesterday,  I was expecting more bulk today.

Monday, Monday

That was the Moody Blues, right?

Working in the yard gets things moving

Sunny here in Pugetopolis, so I decided to get some yard work done. The activity get things moving, as usual.

Damit! Another photo gone!

Skipped a day

Production-free yesterday,  but made up for it this morning. The pressure woke me up-well,  that and the hungry cat.   Since it's weigh in day,  my first stop was the scale.   Just for the hell of it I reweighed after and was 0. 9 pounds lighter. There's a free hint for you folks on Weight Watchers, take a huge dump before you go to the meeting!

NBC Winter Olympics coverage

Not everything here will be poop related.

Am I the only one who remembers how NBC was crowing about how "Live is better" during the Beijing Olympics? Of course, that was when live was during prime time on the west coast. Now we are getting coverage that is delayed; Hell, even the opening ceremonies were delayed 3 hours here on the west coast. And FSM Bless, why do we need all the talking heads and back stories of all the athletes and their struggles in life? I miss CBC's coverage from the past - we get that on cable here, but not CTV, which got the coverage this time. OK, maybe this post is poop related; because NBC's coverage is shitty!

That said, the Canada vs Switzerland Men's Hockey game was GREAT!

Almost sculptural

And essentially odorless.

Just a regular guy

The joys of oatmeal almost every morning along with lots of salads keeps me going.

Aahhh!

So much better. The salad continues its assault; more of it for lunch today. Two flushes and an impressive skid mark on the porcelain.

Daily double

I guess the giant salad I had for lunch kicked in.

Normal morning

Nothing special, just a normal morning.

Edited, somehow the photo disappeared into the aether. Life is like that, but as I said, nothing special.

Back to work

After a long Presidents' Day weekend it's back to work and my favorite stall in the men's room. Obviously,  there was some pressure...  Not sure why,  but life's like that sometimes.

Poo Log

An iPhone/iPod Touch and Android app so you can track your poo! See,
I'm not alone.

http://iphone.avatarlabs.com/poo/

Dinner out last evening

Combine more food than usual and alcohol and we get poo piled above the waterline.

Ah, I feel better now.

Some info about me

Basics; I'm a 50-something male living near Seattle. I work for a city here in the wastewater department (no surprise there) and have been in the wastewater field since the mid 80s. I probably went through the normal childhood stages of poop fascination, I don't remember.

I grew up in a forested rural area in the midwest. That was back when kids were pretty much out of the house after breakfast and except for maybe lunch, didn't go back in until dinner, then frequently back out until darkness set in. You learned to go outside, there was always a handy tree, bush or rock to go behind. And you learned what kinds of leaves were comfortable and which to stay away from. Boy Scouts taught the finer arts of burying your scat and digging cat holes, not to mention identifying animals by their droppings. When I moved to a large southwest city in my early teens it was a major culture shock for me. While in the military I was exposed to some of the toilet standards in SE Asia and came to really appreciate the porcelain sitters that are the standard in the US.

A solid 4

Poop Report dot com

Great humorous and serious reads about our favorite subject, poop!

The actual chart

Here is the chart that you might see in a docotr's office, once again stolen from Wikipedia.

What to expect here

My stream of consciousness is highly braided, so don't expect linear thought here.

I don't think I need to tell you where I was sitting when the idea for this blog entered my warped mind. What you can expect is regular posting of photos of and commentary regarding my "production", links to sites I read, maybe other photos or commentary on anything that comes to mind. I'm relatively stable mentally, so don't expect any videos of me tearfully telling you all to Leave Britney Alone! The odds are really good that you will never see an image or video of me at all.

First post and some explanation

This blog isn't for the weak of stomach, it's not for the squeamish, it's not for those who think their shit doesn't stink. This blog will celebrate the (usually) solid effluvia from the human (mostly) body. The name comes from an aid used by health care providers to classify how one's bowels are performing. Quoting from Wikipedia (complete with Briticisms):

"The Bristol Stool Scale or Bristol Stool Chart is a medical aid designed to classify the form of human faeces into seven categories. Sometimes referred to in the UK as the "Meyers Scale," it was developed by Heaton at the University of Bristol and was first published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 1997. The form of the stool depends on the time it spends in the

The seven types of stool are:
Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely liquid

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the "ideal stools" especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass, and 5–7 being further tending towards diarrhoea or urgency."

At one time Oprah had Dr Oz on and started a period of the Oprahites worrying if their stool wasn't the perfect "s"-shape in the toilet (that would be Bristol Type 4.)