A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Body Found in East River May be that of Spalding Gray
Productive morning thus far. Paperwork in place for new contract. Finishing touches on a two day project that took 2 months. Client invoiced!
Now a lunch break and then I’ll seek some paperwork. I either have to license the Neon today or the Jeep. One of the two must have tags. Then I drive with either a busted tail light or a busted starter. I’d prefer to take the car simply so I can lock up my stuff. Driving with luggage in a Jeep and taking a reststop are challenging to say the least but I’ve learned a few tricks.
Coffee May Pump Up Work Stress
And men working as part of a team may feel less stressed after they get a jolt of caffeine, but it may make them less effective in their tasks.
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there’s also evidence to suggest that caffeine boosts confidence, alertness and sociability, along with improving performance …
Today shall be crazy
I moved boxes and furniture today. Shopped for slacks (I hate that). Helped movie girl scout cookie stands around.
Am tired.
Still have 2 dogs to bathe, dinner to cook, floors to scrub, 2 client quotes to write, 1 project to finalize, paperwork for the next contract, and financial projections to make.
Seems like everytime my relationship gets good with one of the kids I find a way to blow it. Sarah is now upset with me. She got stubborn about a shirt and we were running out of ways to resolve the conflict (in hind sight we still had many options) so I resorted to emptying her closet to the floor and yelling. Was cool dad yesterday. Bad dad today 🙁 This caused damage to Sarah and I, Cathy and I and Amy and I. All the ladies in the house are upset with me now.
Women Plan Topless Protest on Daytona Beach (link safe for work)
This Morning
Slept like a rock accept for the half a dozen times the dog woke me with barking, or the child with the smashing of a coffee mug. Other than some cat vomit we had no mess so I assume the dog was barking at the raccoons and other critters that roam at night.
I awoke paniced this morning then found calm. The wife is working herself into a tizzy over my leaving town. I’m not happy with it either but it could quickly turn into telecommuting and we need the money badly.
Last Night
Spent too much time on the computer and my wife passed out without our evening chatting. I goofed.
These pictures have not been edited, cropped, light adjusted (we had a bad lighting problem) or anything else. But to help move things along during this busy week, here are Pinewood Derby and more
Hover mouse for a description. Click for a larger image. Better quality pictures available upon request as usual.
We get some strange looking fowl in E TN.
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the sweetener in coke and pepsi is actually a neuro enhancer – makes portions of the brain race uncontrollably and frenetically. Dont switch to diet coke – its worse. it contains aspartame which breaks down to formaldyhide (formic acid) which is ant poison when store in warm places – eg warehousesm trucks etc. Do a google search if you dont belive me.
stop drinking the stuff – go away panic attacks!
tim | Email | Homepage | 03.06.04 – 11:56 am | #
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I thought to break a habit it was 36000 repetitions (I’ve heard 21 days also)
The neuro enhancing effect that Tim describes (brain race uncontrollably and frenetically) is exactly what I’ve been experiencing dramatically for quite some time now often to the point of being dysfunctal.
As for aspartame, I avoid it with a passion. Someone in the grocery store influenced me greatly to stay away from processed and artifical foods. Granted, our lifestyle hasn’t permitted the exclusion of highly processed foods but we use natural foods whenever possible.
I have not completely eliminated caffeine. I went without for 5 days and then allowed myself 1 glass of X (be it coke or tea or whatever) per day. A fog has lifted from my mind and my soul has achieved a calm not felt in a looong time!
djuggler | Homepage | 03.06.04 – 9:01 pm | #
Dr. Ashen shows us How to Build a Computer for Almost No Money At All!
I feel dehydrated. I feel buzzed. I feel a hollow dull throb in my head. My sinuses still feel like they have glue in them. But overall I feel GREAT!
Had much fun with the family and the girl scout cookie sales. My wife is so together and organized that everything went very smoothly!
The baby had too much cuteness to report. The 7 yr old said too many funny things. The 10 yr was blowing in the wind. And the 13 yr old was going a mile a minute but stayed in control and managed himself well.
