Daily Archives: December 17, 2003

today's new thing

give me the trimethylxanthine, man.

1 Comment

that’s right, bring it on. i think that today, more than ever, i need a healthy dose of the trimethylxanthine. sometimes you just need that little bit of a pick me up and today seems to be one of those days. trimethylxanthine, whose chemical formula is C8H10N4O2, is better known as caffeine.

today i learned that caffeine is also a mild diuretic. for those not jive with the medical lingo (myself included) that means it makes you pee more. i also learned that if something is labelled as “decaffeinated” that only means that there is less than 2.5% by volume of caffeine in the product. so decaffeinated does not equal caffeine free.

general ramblings

EARTHQUAKE!

Leave a comment

[url=http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40148607.htm]did you feel it?[/url] did you feel it? i haven’t felt an earthquake in a long time. this one was a baby one. there was a little shuddering but that’s about it. the interesting thing is that my office building is a brick building. if a big quake hits, i wonder how it’ll do.

—–

general ramblings

if you could choose…

Leave a comment

if you could choose between getting one really big xmas gift from everyone, or a bunch of little ones, which would you choose?

if i had a choice, i’d probably opt for the bunch of little ones. i think that there’s just more individual thought to the gifts and it’s just more fun opening a bunch of gifts than one big one. but i wouldn’t complain if i did get just one big gift. =P

—–

rants

rude

Leave a comment

sometimes it’s amazing how rude some people can be and not really know it. it’s for those people that i sort of pity. it is one thing to be rude and realize that your rudeness is improper. it’s another to be rude and not know that you are being rude. not only does this offend other people, but you don’t have the opportunity to better yourself because you don’t realize that what you are doing is simply WRONG.

the other day, i was looking at something and somebody took what i was examining (with great interest, mind you) out of hands so that they could look at it. was i done looking at said object? nope. did i find it incredibly rude that they would just snatch it out of my hands? yup. did i do anything about it? nope. i was in so much shock that they would just snatch it out of my hands that i couldn’t say anything.

i looked around to see if anyone else had seen what had happened and to see if i was being unreasonable at being so shocked…but then my eyes locked on to someone else’s who had seen what had happened and there was this smirk on their face and a knowing nod. yes, indeed, this had happened, and i was justified in feeling the way i did.

i was pretty upset at the time, but now that i look back on it, i actually feel bad for the person. i mean, they don’t even know the bad they did…and well, that’s sad.

—–

general ramblings

insomniac

Leave a comment

man…i’m exhausted. i’ve been having a lot of trouble going to sleep lately. it’s been ongoing for the last two weeks or so. i’m not going to bed until 3 or 4am and when i wake up to go to work i wake up with a feeling of exhaustion. there’s just no relief. today, my body is aching a little, i suspect from the lack of sleep. i can’t wait until i go home tonight and go to bed. i don’t think that i can survive like this much longer.

i don’t know why i can’t seem to slumber. you’d think that it’d be an easy thing to do, but it takes quite an effort for me to be able to fall asleep.

*sigh*

—–

today's new thing

texas hold ’em

2 Comments

after being inspired from watching [url=http://www.bravotv.com/Celebrity_Poker_Showdown/]celebrity poker showdown[/url] i called in the troops last night to play some texas hold ’em. and man, let me just say that last night’s texas hold ’em was a lot more fun for me. my betting strategy has changed quite a bit and it was definitely a lot more exciting this time around. big bets all the way around.

there was some [url=http://www.track15.com]COMPLETELY[/url] [url=http://jimmy.ocliw.com]IRRESPONSIBLE[/url] [url=http://www.ocliw.com/blur/]BETTING[/url] going on last night, some of which resulted in good things and some resulted in very bad things.

what amazed me was that jimmy had amazingly incredible luck which resulted in him being the ultimate winner of all the money in the pot.