Intellectual Poison

The Freakonomics Blog says...The next time your daughter brings home a new boyfriend, be sure to ask his middle name because circumstantial evidence indicates that having "Wayne" as a middle name may make him more prone to the commision of violent crimes.

And he probably drives a Camaro or a Trans-Am. Cars we grew up calling wifebeaters which isn't especially funny in retrospect but it made us feel cool at the time.

Republican Rep. Foley Resigns because of some really creepy emails and IMs he sent an underage male page working for another congressman.

Which has given rise to a new word that could have gotten lots of use in the last couple of years, GOPerv - pronounced Gop-erv or, possibly, Go-Perv as that rolls off the tongue much more easily. Easy to figure out what this one means, eh?

And Mr. Foley? You need to really sit and think about your entire career being shitcanned because you got a boner for a 16 year old boy. Nice work. I'm glad I never voted for you.

or....Were You Just Holding Your Junk? Then Go Wash Your Freakin' Hands!

Ever since my post detailing the crap habits of the office building I work in, I've been noticing more tendencies and trends.

Among them are that there's a decent population of people in my building that don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.

I don't think I'm going to ever shake hands with anyone ever again because that's just gross to think about. I don't understand how someone could be holding their cock to take a piss and then just put 'er away and get back to working without bothering to, you know, wash up some.

But its all good, I've got a tube of hand sanitizer from Purell (now with moisture therapy!) that will kill off the poo and pee microbes that are teaming on their hands. Eww, it gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. I'm glad I don't share an office with any of them (that I know of thus far) because I'd be wiping down my keyboard every five minutes.

Tags: handwashing, bathroom, nasty

The good news is that I finally ordered an upgrade hard drive for my Tivo from Weaknees. I noticed a week or two ago that I have, at best, one show saved on the Tivo. The majority of our hours are spent on kid's shows and my wife's shows.

And that's not right.

So I ordered an upgrade drive to add 180 hours of storage to the unit. That should help quite a bit. Now I just need to figure out why the damned thing is running so slowly these days.

Anyone got any insight into that?

And if you're considering a Tivo I would just recommend getting one. It makes television so much better. The replay is good, the pausing is good and it just works without hassles (unlike other PVR's I've read about). The only bummer I know of now is that there are no lifetime licenses for sale anymore, they want a monthly residual payment. I knew that was never going to last so I bought the lifetime subscription and it is paying for itself now!

Tags: Tivo, upgrade, hard drive

I found out today that inhaling secondhand smoke can exacerbate allergic symptoms for up to 4 days afterwards.

Secondhand smoke causes a shift in the immune system that results in higher levels of antibodies that trigger an allergic reaction.

So, aside from lung cancer, you can use allergic reactions as a reason to ask the stink stick smokers to take it elsewhere.

I'm always amazed when we travel to just to see how many people smoke. Everywhere. Its awful and sad. When we were up in Reno a few weeks ago, it felt like I was the only one who wasn't smoking. Casino's with bad HVAC systems stink too.

And, oh yeah, people who smoke just outside the door to my building, the smoke drifts right into the building and down the hallway which makes people have to walk through an entire hallway filled with your second hand smoke. And that look I give you on the way? That's the look of someone who'd like an excuse to kick you in the nuts.

I understand the desire to be famous for something but being famous for the longest fingernails on record is just gross and tells me that you don't have to work, you don't have to actually do anything with your life except grow your disgusting fingernails.

And, truthfully, you have churned my stomach.

And it raises lots of questions. How do you go to the bathroom? How do you eat? How do you dress yourself? What in the hell compelled you to stop clipping your fingernails? What in the hell compelled you to permanently stop clipping them? What does your family have to say about this? I'm guessing the majority are saying "Nobody cares, now cut your disgusting fingernails, they're totally creeping everyone out, you crazy leather-pant wearing old lady!"

Just nasty.

HP executives are in Washington right now "testifying" about the spying in the boardroom scandal that's already knocked several high-fliers out of the skies, including Patricia Hurd (who was just inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame which makes for an interesting contrast to this current idiocy).

And the coverage has been positively awful. What interest is it to hear these folks exercise their 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination? That's not hot and sexy and bad.

We want to hear the dirt. We want to hear who told who to do what. We want to know who authorized the pretexting and under what grounds they did so.

Or, actually, not really. The HP scandal is interesting stuff but there are plenty of other more interesting and farther reaching stories going on right now.

The continued attempt to dismantle the US's adherence to the Geneva Conventions on the torture of POWs is a big one. The Clinton getting all pissed off at the Fox News reporter who asked Clinton questions about 9/11 he wouldn't even ask the sitting president. And I think that was a brilliant response by Bill Clinton, why haven't you asked President Bush these same questions?

There is news that the number of US deaths in Iraq recently surpassed the total number of dead from 9/11 which has a sort of somber signifigance.

There is the news that my brother and his family are moving to Texas as he accepted a new position. But since he doesn't respond to email anymore its hard to offer congratulations.

There is the big bummer news that my cousin's converted barn burned down under some suspicious circumstances (or at least it seems suspicious but will likely end up being a shorted wire).

There is the unsurprising but still annoying news that my unemployment appeal was denied and the bitch I used to work for has, for all intents and purposes, won. That sucks and it rankles me but I do believe in karmic payback and I'm certain I'll read about her getting run over by a bus anyday now. (No, not really but its a nice thought for a moment. I don't wish her any real harm.)

Oh yes, and there is the news that Barry Bonds will not sign any contract for what will likely be his final major league season if the contract contains any incentive-based payouts. I.e. he wants a huge paycheck no matter how gimpy and useless he is next year. Which means that he'll likely go and play in the American League to run out his career as a DH since he's a liability in the field now.

And I can understand his perspective but I don't think he's being fair. He's a huge salary and if he's not producing or even playing (which brings in bigger crowds and larger gate revenues) then he shouldn't be getting full-sized paychecks. Look at what an incentive-based contract has done for Frank Thomas this season. He's a leading candidate for comeback player of the year with his monster numbers in September. And he's having fun playing.

Anyway, that's my news wrap for this morning. Time to get cranking on my tasklist.

Tags: HP, 5th amendment, news, Barry Bonds

How many cups of coffee do you have on an average morning?

I usually have one when I get up and watch Sesame Street with Graydon. And then I bring a thermos full of coffee with me to work which gives me another cup and a half to two cups.

So I generally have about three cups of coffee everyday during the week (I try to cut back to just a single cup on the weekends as its much harder to loaf and nap with a bunch of caffeine coursing through one's system).

Last night, as I was stirring my glass of malt Ovaltine, I had a thought of switching out the coffee and switching in Ovaltine. Coffee has no nutritional value and the creamer is generally sugar, fat and cream so no help there. Ovaltine has a whole crapload of vitamins and nutrients and comes slathered in milk, which has its own host of nutritional goodness.

And Ovaltine is really good warm too.

I think I'm going to give it a try next week and see how it goes. Of course, I will report in here. But this means I will have to seriously work on not pounding the entire glass or mug of Ovaltine in one prolonged chug as I usually end up doing. The stuff is tasty!

Tags: coffee, Ovaltine, health

You didn't know you could be all green and still have your tech widgets, did you?

Well, be the envy of the coffee shop when you plug the wooden memory stick into your solar-powered TreeHugger 5000 notebook.

But I think I prefer these sushi-styled USB drives.

Really, all I need in a flash drive is high speed and to make sure the connector is protected. That's why I really like my SanDisk Cruzer Titanium, the USB connection retracts into the cool Liquidmetal case. Now I just need a much, much larger drive as the 512 MB gets filled up right quick.

And then there is the incredibly lame Office Espionage Kit that includes a listening device, an invisible ink pen and two mirrors to peek around corners. Whoop-de-friggin'-do. How about some real tools? Like a pen scanner, proximity alarm, bombs disguised as CD's and a Dictaphone that converts into a bar? Now we're talking!
Tags: USB drive, SanDisk, wooden USB, sushi, form over function

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores.

Here's another installment from the Cheddar X, another lifted post but its better than a kick in the teeth, I think.

11. Last Christmas: doesn't count anymore.
12. When I turn my head left: I see my in-box piled high with papers.
13. I should be: sitting out by the pond having lunch and not looking at a computer screen.
14. When I look down I see: a blue carpet with chair wheel marks all over it.
15. The craziest recent event was: probably on the morning commute but I've already moved on.
16. If I were a character on "Friends" I'd be: the one who killed himself out of shame.
17. By this time next year: we will have moved alot closer to my work.
18. My favorite aunt is: way away on the east coast with the rest of my family.
19. I have a hard time understanding: why non-rich people support George Bush, he's not your pal.
20. One time at a family gathering: I saw my uncle use a ladle to corral his nuts (yes, it did scar me for life).

It is now possible to send someone a springloaded ass.

I'll let that sink in for a second. Yes, an ass in a box, on springs that sproings out at the recepient.

I can think of one person who deserves one for good reason and another who deserves one for a bad reason. Is it possible that the same thing can mean opposite things to two different people? Sure.

Anyway, here is Ass in the Box (um, maybe nsfw, ya think). Who would you send one to?

Tags: assinthebox, springloaded, ass

Americans Skeptical About Gas Price Drop and, in my mind, rightfully, correlate the sudden and substantial drop in the price of gas to fears of the upcoming elections that will see some of those record oil company profits eaten up by pissed off consumers.

How much did the oil companies make last year in profit? Try $78 billion.

To answer Tony Snow's quote "'It also raises the question, if we're dropping gas prices now, why on earth did we raise them to $3.50 before?' Snow said."

Um yeah, Tony, how about I give you 78 billion reasons.

Stay the course, folks. Kick these crooked fucking bums out in November, restore the natural checks and balances on our government and eventually this Bush-era will seem like a bad dream that happened a long time ago instead of the never-ending nightmare it has been.

My neighbor had a visitor over who said we shouldn't ever question the president and we should just get behind him. Which I ably refuted by asking him how long he would work for a moron who continually screwed up the company. It astonishes me that people are still not willing to call a moron a moron and cast Bush into the gutter like the trash he is.

And then I explained to him about Bush's latest attempt to remove the US from subscribing to the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of POWs and the use of torture upon them. It sickens me to think of Bush and his cronies dismantling everything our nation stands for and then trying to cast the Democrats as the louts who have screwed everything all to hell.

I love the morning after a good workout the night before. I feel stronger, tell myself I look better and am just all around more suited to hit the ground running (or rolling as the case may be).

I'm not as "built" as I used to be but then I've got two kids, a wife, a dog and a full time job so you'll excuse me if I don't have the six pack in effect.

But I am riding my bike at work during lunch again and have continued to stay away from fast food (nearly two months now) and I do feel better. Though I am still struggling with getting enough sleep. If I go to bed early then one of the kids will wake up screaming at 4 in the morning. Or something else will impact my desire to get a good night of sleep.

But the new mattress is helping and, though the steps are small, we are making steps to get back into a positive and healthy lifestyle.

Now if I can only find a house that doesn't cost $600,000 and needs about a $100,000 worth of repair work. Another few months of a softening market ought to get us there though, I hope.

Tags: workout, effect, exercise,

Blasphemy you say? Blasphemy to not worship at the Temple of Google? Especially when they host the engine to run this blog?

Bah. Google is not God, yet.

And I've been trying to use GMail for months now and I have pretty much concluded that I need folders to store my email in, I need a way to look at all of my unread email easily and at once and to mark it as read if I so choose.

As is it, I have an in-box with a couple hundred messages in it, about 60 that are unread and sprinkled throughout the in-box. There's no simple way to view just those and deal with them. Its stupid and annoying.

The labels are a waste of time to me. Give me folders to stash my email in, labels just add clutter and don't actually move things out of the in-box, they just add crap.

And yes, I do think I've posted about this before, I'm getting a distinct deja vu going on.

Take a look at the MLB - New York Yankees/Tampa Bay Devil Rays Box Score Monday September 25, 2006 and witness a team with a payroll above $200 million walloping the piss out of a team with a payroll of around $40 million (if that).

Now is the time, yet again, to suggest and support a way to level out the playing field in baseball without the affrontery of a salary cap. Its called, payroll weighted scoring.

What it means is that, in today's game, the Yankees would have to score five times as many runs as the Devil Rays to actually win the game. Thier payroll is more than 5 times higher, that's the divider to arrive at the final score.

Which would mean that an asshat like Steinbrenner would actually have to build a baseball team instead of just blank-checking his way into the playoffs.

[Update: So yeah, the Yankees won the game 16-1 so they'd have won this one pretty much hands down either way. But still, the concept has merit, if only to piss off King George.]

Did you know that upwards of 80% of the "dust" in your home isn't dirt at all? Nope, its dead skin cells.

Nice, eh?

Of course, in my house, 90% of what the vaccuum sucks up is dog hair.

Or whichever foot you want to get hit by a freakin' javelin! Look carefully and you can see the tip of the javelin sticking out the bottom of her shoe.

Isocyanide - smells that are so bad they can leave mental scars. Yep, that's them.

And that's just what they'll do.

Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds

One of these days these laws are gonna break all over you (you meaning Shrubya, Ducky Dicky and Big Al the Torture King, and of course, the rest of the band of hooligans).

Tags: breaking the law, wiretap, Bush

You don't want either of them to know what your home address is. In Scientology's case, they'll bombard you with really creepy hand written letters from people who think you've gone "astray". In Ann's case, she might just camp outside your house to wait until you go out so she can sneak in a boil your rabbit alive.

Seriously, could she look any creepier and more deranged (ala Glenn Close just before she hurls into the hedges in Fatal Attraction)? Maybe if she had some excrement across her forehead but the look pretty much says it all. "If I could get away with killing you and everyone you know, I'd do it, in a New York minute."

Fear Factor - Anti-Coulter Writers Write Anonymously

Actually, it makes good sense to not have your name attached to something that will infuriate the Coulter-corps by slinging reality and truth and ethics at the shrill harpy. How dare people expect this toxic butterfly to subscribe to yours and my reality. Maybe she's really colorblind and there really is only black and white in the world?

You know what I learned? I learned that if you use a set of lenses that invert all the images you see, eventually, your brain will just disregard the inversion and you'll see things right side up as normal. Until you remove the lenses again and your eyes have to readjust to the un-inverted world. Why is this interesting? Because people that view the world through such brutally ugly lenses as harpies like Coulter and Michael Savage (though he's just a freakin' dingbat for all I can tell) is that, eventually, their world view becomes standardized for them. They think its how things really are. In other words, they start to really buy into the mockery of the universe that they "see". And that's kind of sad. Except when you remember that they've gotten quite rich by substituting their own reality for the one the rest of us more commonly share.

But maybe I'm wrong, maybe my reality is nothing at all like hers. Or yours. Maybe every reality is its own private universe?

Arizona Diamondbacks/Los Angeles Dodgers Recap Saturday which shows Eric Byrnes getting four hits and the Dodgers dropping thier 12th in 20 games. Even if they limped into the playoffs now, they're low-hanging fruit.

Not that the Giants did any better this season and seem to have quit a bit early in this last series against the Brewers.

Seven games left, they're a half out in the wild card and a game and a half out in the NL West (which shows how weak the west is and has been for a while). But its nice to know that the Dodgers will be watching again soon too.

So will the Red Sox who flamed out a week or two ago.

One of the best stories from this season is the Phillie's Ryan Howard who's brushing up against 60 homers in his first season in the game. That's pretty cool.

And Frank Thomas, of course. Putting up monster numbers in September is always a way to endear yourself to your fans. And being on a team that's 27 games over 500 doesn't hurt either.

And its Sunday morning football time now so that's all good.

Porn sites exploit new IE flaw.

Yes folks, this is exactly what it looks like. A mouse pad that lets you rest your wrist right between Alyssa Milano's boobs. And who says there's nothing good about the internets these days?
Tags: Alyssa Milano, boobs, mousepad

This November you must cast your vote for Elmer Fud or the terrorists will have won. Elmer Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That's pretty much who is running against the Democrats. Why? Because the only message they have is the same tired bleating we've been hearing for years.

Here's some more...Bush on Democrats: 'They will raise your taxes'

Bush warned Democrats will say they have to raise taxes to balance the budget. "They will raise your taxes and figure out new ways to spend your money," he said. "The best way to balance the budget is to keep pro-growth policies in place."
Which makes me ask a pretty simple question. Just what in the fuck would this fool know about balancing a budget? He took a budget surplus from Clinton and turned it into the biggest deficit in the history of the freakin' world!

The best way to balance the budget is to not engage in a pointless and unwinnable war in Iraq (hmm, like your daddy knew and all your military advisors told you). The best way to balance the budget is to not rubber stamp nearly every proposal that crosses your desk (except for stem cell research, we've gotta to think about the pre-babies!). I don't think Bush has ever had to balance his checkbook let alone create or live within a budget.

Get out the vote and vote for Elmer "Osama Who?" Fud.

Tags: Bush, FUD, economy,

What's your favorite new word?

The one I keep repeating to myself alot is secrutiny, its got a nice flow to it once you get your head and mouth around saying. Seh-crew-tinny. No, its not a real word. Yet.

Secrutiny - scrutinizing your security or securing your scrutiny but that makes less sense.

So it seems that I'm coming up with five or six new words a day lately. Some I lose because I come up with them while lane splitting traffic on my motorcycle on the way into work and its somewhat inconvenient to take notes. But most come to when I'm working and have pen and paper handy to scrawl them down. Have I mentioned that my handwriting varies from reasonably legible to scratches in nice patterns?

Anyway, back to the point at hand. I've got a bunch new words and I don't feel like slow doling them out since my days have shifted so much with this whole working thing. So I'm going to blast out some invented words.

Glerrors - glaring errors. Also could be spelled glarrers but that makes the root words a bit more obtuse.

Circurse - cursed to be stuck in the circus forever. Or a cursed circus. Or a circus for cursing.

Cursious - curious about curses.

Delivious - so delicious that you become oblivious to the rest of the universe.

Internity - the length of your (unpaid or really low paid) internship

Externity - presumably the time after your internity but I'm not sure that makes sense.

Simvility - simulated civility, feigned niceness or the frenemy act.

Tags: secrutiny,glerrors,circurse,cursious,externity,delivious,internity, simvility,fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

A site called Moo has teamed up with Flickr to create sweet, beautiful minicards that can be personalized into business cards or many other cool uses.

The neat part is that you can select a whole bunch of photos to be converted, not just one or two. And the best part? The first ten are free for Flickr Pro users! Oh yeah, not even shipping!

My batch is on their way now and I can't wait to see them. Got a Flickr Pro account? Go and get started on making your free batch of cards!

Tags: flickr, moo, minicards,

Today is my father's birthday, he would be 69 years old today. Except he passed away several years ago. Some days I miss him more than others but I always miss him. And I really wish he'd been able to see me get married and to see my two wonderful little boys that both remind me so much of him.

I'm not much for heaven and hell thoughts but there are times when I'd like to think that he's somewhere watching and enjoying the continuation of the cycle. That and I imagine part of him is enjoying watching my little boy push my buttons to drive me crazy, just like I did with him when I was a sprout.

I miss you, Dad, everyday. But you are here, in so many ways, I see you in both of my children and often catch myself thinking how much you would enjoy something I'm doing or seeing.

I've got a note taped to my monitor that contains nine guidelines that my step-mom sent to me after he passed away. Yes, I've posted them before. But I'm going to post them again because they're excellent guidelines and a good reminder of the kind of man my father was.

Things to Try to Bear in Mind
1. If you don't like something (situation/policy/etc), don't complain; do something positive to change it.
2. Compartmentalize if needed to get through a tough time.
3. Always remember to ask the basic question, "What is it we are trying to accomplish?"
4. Respect and try to understand different perspectives.
5. Find a way for everyone to save face.
6. Gather as much information as possible before making a decision, and base decisions on facts or the best information available.
7. Laugh and encourage others to laugh with you. It's okay-even desirable-to play and be a little silly as an adult.
8. Gain the respect of people you admire.
9. Make a contribution to the world/community/neighborhood using the skills you have.

Not bad advice at all. Somedays I'd really like to be able to ask him what he would do in whatever situation is vexing me but I suppose I can use these guidelines and figure out what he'd do. But it would be nice to hear his voice again.

Tags: happy birthday, dad, guidelines,

Wednesday is Bagel Day at my office. Though maybe it should be Bagel and Odwalla Day since there's always a nice assortment of Odwalla juices as well as excellent bagels from Noah's.

And I admit that I'm all about the Everything Bagel though I've had some before that also had coarse salt on them and that adds a whole 'nother level of flavor to them.

It does make Wednesdays that much better to know we'll have the office equivalent of juice and cookies one day a week. Its part of the reason that I really like my new office environment.

Gonzales wants Internet records saved in case they are needed to pursue traffickers in child pornography.

And anytime Alberto "Me Likee Torture" Gonzales says he respects civil liberties, I wonder if he pauses to see if he's going to be struck by a bolt of lightning and incinerated on the spot because there's never been a more blatant lie.

Now, don't misunderstand me, I am all for vigourous prosecution of people who traffic in child pornography, they ruin lives by exploiting the defenseless and I thoroughly detest scumbags who prey on kids.

But Alberto Gonzales is blowing smoke up an entire nation's ass if he wants me to believe that he wants records saved for child porn crackdowns. These are the same flipping people who want more torture in the world. These are the same people that have basically told the president that he can legally do almost anything he pleases. These are the same people that want to amend the freakin' Constitution because they're so scared of two men or two women being married to each other.

Child porn? You're using that as your smokescreen, Al? You're a slimy turd, aren't ya? Just like ol' Scottie Mac was a slimer. You know, the kind of scum you want to go wash off your hand after shaking their hand. Like the acidic slime on Dick and the smarmy charmy slime on Dubya, you know, the one where he looks shockingly like Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine.

Of course, now the new spin is to look as horrendous as possible so that, when it comes time to try and put someone else from the Grand Old Party in the Oval Office again once the Bush era is thankfully over, its easier to step away from Bush and his politics of lunacy and Bible thump/humping while behaving in the most decidedly un-Christian ways possible.

Who knows what their real reason is for wanting all internet records, maybe to root out depravity and libruls? Probably. Or maybe more nefarious things like less easily recognizable vote rigging (hmm, why are there all these same numbers of votes from all these places in Ohio? must be the damnedest coincidence). And hey, did you know its superduper easy to not only unlock and open a Diebold voting machine but its also just as easy to pull a memory card, replace it with another completely control the vote? Ain't technology grand? Kind of like the Grand Old Party, a bunch of sad fucks bent on looting our nation in the midst of a false war and real problems.

Child porn? What, did the spinsters say the Terrorists and 9/11 drum was off being reskinned again because it had been worn out?

Is it almost time to get the big calendar and start marking off the days until Bush II is over and we can get to the massive indictments against these crooked fucks?

In effort to balance out my introduction of new words into the language, I am planning on trying to revive old words that should not be allowed to disappear.

And with that goal in mind, the new old word of the day is: malarkey - exaggerated or foolish talk (and don't we all know there's plenty of malarkey being flung around these days)

Here is a more complete definition of malarkey.

Graydon and I watched JoJo's Circus together this morning and I am having some trouble getting the theme song out of my brain now.

Its not a show I really like either because they tend to pander to the kids watching it though its not anywhere near as bad as the pap that is Mickey's Clubhouse. That show annoys the hell out of me. But even that irritation is a mere shadow of how much I dislike Barney and the Teletubbies. And the kid's stoner show, Its A Big, Big World where the main character is a tree sloth who sounds like he fell in a vat of slowdown juice as a baby.

Anyway, I've got the earworm going this morning so I think I'm gonna pop on my headphones and crank out a little real music to see if I can displace the crap with some good stuff.

I mhad drinks with some of the people from my old office last night. One that I knew well and one new person that's had the misfortune to get hired since I left back in February.

Not much has changed in the office, the power struggle between the CEW (that's chief executive witch) and the president, who's a real businessman. There's been no infrastructure upgrades, no improvements to the working conditions and no, obviously, improvement in morale.

Which is pretty much exactly what I expected. I let them know what the company's reputation in the business world is (hint, it ain't good) and shared some wonderful stories that'll hopefully make their workdays a little more bearable. And I offered advice on how to break away and move on to better employment that doesn't make you dread going into the office everyday and dread having to deal with the wicked witch.

Oh yeah, and the margaritas were pretty darned tasty!

The other nice part was that there was not a hint of traffic until I got nearly home where they were doing roadwork and two cars had stacked and mashed themselves up pretty good.

Last bit before I roll out, I've added an About Me to the site, its not done but its close enough to go up for now and I'll update it with photos and more info as time goes on.

Tags: work, sordid, stories

This morning marked the start of a new trend that I hope to continue as I do think it helped me get up and out of bed a little faster.

Though it did force me to make a pit stop on the way into the office that added a good ten minutes to my already late commute.

The idea is to wake up and pound a pint of water first thing in the morning. To help lubricate your body, rehydrate your muscles and brain and to just give your body a decent start to the day. And, so far, it seems to be working reasonably well but the results are slightly skewed as Sullivan had a short screaming fit at about 6 this morning that sort of made further rest tough.

But I'm going to try and do this for a few weeks to see if it really can help to start my days a little more easily than without it. Its all about making adjustments in the routine to be a little faster, a little better and a little more efficient.

Now if they'll only finish all that work on Highway 1 so traffic doesn't bog down and a 20 mile commute takes nearly an hour. Or they could, at the very least, finish resurfacing the highway so there isn't a four inch "shoulder" between the new asphalt and the old highway right between the lanes (i.e. exactly where us bikers have to ride during jams).

Here's some help on How to Drink More Water Everyday.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and flush out some toxins.

Tags: water, routine, hydrate