trophy bag

I heart "we make money not art" -- check out the high design pet store so we can spend big bucks to make fun of our cats.

small is tall, black is white

the world's energy problems can be solved by attaching a generator to orwell's spinning corpse. if you haven't read 1984 since the selection of rove's handpuppet, read it. get the nice hardcover from the library, as the $3 paperback is astoundingly poorly printed.

anyway, when my small drip coffee was delivered, the clerk dutifully called it a 'tall'. I commented to the wife about it, and she says "they probably get docked if they call it a small". From there, the gears started turning.

Starbucks' naming is the thin end of the wedge. Once we start accepting that small is tall, we'll believe whatever they feed us on fox news.

I heart big brother.

withdrawl update

taking time off the bean has been harsh. I had a small drip coffee from starfucks this morning. I was feeling might grim before then.

yesterday's caffiene intake was one mug of crappy bigelow green tea, plus one diet dr. pepper.

off the bean?

I am outrageously dragass today. but I will resist 'the bean'.

I undrstand that some people take the time to detox from sweet mother coffee every once and a while so that coffee will once again work.

coffee isn't working anymore.

yet, when I don't have it, I'm so sleepy.

wonder how long withdrawal will take.


and how long it will take to wind up with a hideous tolerance again.

*sigh*

instant margarita

best part of lemon ice gatorade was the 'instant margarita' ... with built-in hangover protection.

gotta try it with pocari sweat mix.

Dakara, Pokari Sweat, etc.

I need to find an american distributor of Suntory's Dakara.

I hate gatorade. I especially hate gatorade after my brief infatuation with the wonderful, colorless, somehow not-too-horrifyingly-sugary Lemon Ice Gatorade, which has been discontinued. Let me expand that to "I hate american sports drinks". Maybe it's the food coloring. maybe it's that they're far too sugary.

I kind of like Pocari Sweat, and will likely stock up on pocari sweat powder. It's a little on the sweet side, as is Aquarius. Amino Supli is a reasonable fallback. The clear favorite is Dakara.

Please. please find an american vendor of Dakara. Bonus points if a powdered mix can be found.

for your reading lists...

The Rude Pundit

Soy! Soy! Soy!

soy makes you strong
strength crushes enemies
soy!

It is so good everyone must know about it: Pearl Soy Milk from Kikkoman.

It eases my poor hungover system as I gather up the energy to make yummy french toast from very-nearly-stale grace baking 'puligese' bread.

meaningless but amusing

in response to zgrrrl's question about meaninglesness...

joy in lack of meaning? maybe not, but there is joy in being over it. funny thing is, there was a sort of pretentious joy in starting the search for meaning.

guess my suggestion would be to learn to appreciate meaning when it turns up, or even use 'find meaning' it as a way of finding a silver-lining and or amusement when needed.

denied. twice.

augh. got another neg today. sure this was for a job that I might have been ambivalent about, but it nevertheless sucks.

*sigh*

ladder or treadmill

having leapt from the ladder and gotten back on, I'm tempted yet hesitant w/r/t spouting off about finding joy in the utter meaninglessness of life, slacking, and the cultivation of amusement in whatever is going on.

or is that a load of shit?

blah blah blah

suppose I'll get back to work on sanding the upstairs floor while I ponder this.

first

w00t.

now what?

do I have to make up silly and utterly transparent nicknames for anyone I reference?