• 4Oct 08

  Bad experience with an energy drink.

  I am a caffiene fiend. No joke when I say I am addicted. If I don't get caffiene I go into withdraw.

  It may partly have something to do with why I have attention deficit hyperactive disorder(ADHD). I've been hopped up on sugar and caffiene from a very early age. I actually have a picture of me when I was 2 sipping coca cola from a big gulp.

  When I was in 6th grade I never had time for a real breakfast since school started at 6 in the morning. Way to early if you ask me. Getting up at 4 in the morning to get ready to go to school (I take a long time to get ready to go anywhere). So every morning I had a pack of powdered donuts and a can of surge. In case you don't remember surge it is what we now call vault. By time I got to class I was so hyper I literally would powerslide into my desk and throw my bookbag at the wall. I got in trouble alot.

  Recently have started to try and cut back. Nothing short of rehab would probably help me break the addiction completely. My love of energy drinks doesn't help. I came to the decision to cut back a few months ago when my friend (an even bigger caffiene fiend than me) went to some pc gaming tournament. They were passing out free red bulls half way through. He drank 10 of them and then went into what looked like some sort of epileptic seizure. They rushed him to the hospital and he lived.

  I don't want that happening to me, then again I'm not really dumb enough to drink 10 red bulls within a time span of 30 minutes either. Still I think its time to cut back. My love of energy drinks really doesn't help though. My favorite is full throttle. Generally though when it comes to the little cans like 8 ounces or whatever size it is, I have a bad habit of chugging those. Half the time those little ones taste extremely bitter though anyways. Red bull for example in my opinion tastes like crap but some mornings I really need to wake up so I buy one of those and chug it down.

  So its saturday morning. My friend Michael calls me up tells me we are having band practice at his house. Really its more like an excuse to get together and play game cube and smoke... well they smoke, I don't. I guess that makes me a square. Oh well.

  So we are heading over to his house he stops off at a shell gas station to get a pack of cigs. I was completely burnt out from the night before. I was over at my friend's house Kyle. Him and a bunch of his friendss were there playing xbox. His mom was there too and she was completely wasted. She was running around with a half empty bottle of smirnoff flirting with everyone too. I felt sorry for Kyle . She made me french toast...

  So we are at the shell gas station. The gas station itself seems like one of those places that gets robbed alot. Lots of bars on the windows. We were in a pretty bad neighborhood too. Like a redneck ghetto if that makes any sense. For example you can kind of tell by the names of the roads. the gas station was in the middle of where "Thunderbird Lane" splits off into "American Avenue" and "Gun Club Road". Yea...

  Anyways, so I despite my new resolution I give in and decide to head in and get a energy drink. So I am scanning through the selection. Its like Red Bull, amped, starbucks ,something called bookoo, C-ocaine,monster, and full throttle.

  I'm like wait a minute. C-ocaine? (when you read this mentally remove the little -, its just there cause this word is likely to be censored). There is actually a energy drink called C-ocaine. With a tagline "the legal alternative". At first I'm like who would name their product this. Then again it sort of makes sense. Caffiene and C-ocaine are similar in some ways excluding the whole brain damaging effects of the latter. So I'm like ok I got to try this. So I pick up a can and a gatorade. We head out to get in the car Michael says "you got one of those? oh yea I've had it before its awesome. Really picks you up." So we get in the car as usual, as I said before I have this bad habit of chugging down my energy drinks . I crack open the can and chugged down the whole thing. Tasted a bit odd at first, but in a matter of seconds my throat is on fire. I'm telling you I could probably have belched flames. By this time I had broken out into a sweat and my heart rate was extremely high. I'm sitting here thinking oh great I'm having a heart attack. I thought I was going to die after a minute though my throat stopped burning and my heart rate went down. I was also even more tired than before. I felt like I was going to pass out right then and there.Michael says to me " oh yea that happens to me too, I think it does that to everyone." I have a hard time believing a drink like that could be legally sold. None the less I can't help feel like I almost ended up like my idiot friend who passed out at the game tournament.

  So I am defintely never buying that drink again. And because of that experience I have now gone three days caffiene free. My head hurts, I'm in a constantly in a bad mood. And I am exhausted. I actually fell asleep standing up today. Yea... but I figure I should stick with this. I might just thank myself in the end.

  • Posted Oct 4, 2008 9:21 pm PT
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• 29Sep 08

  Hypnic Jerk

  Ever have that sensation like you are falling while you are asleep? Hypnagogic Myoclonic Twitch or more commonly refered to as Hypnic Jerks, while unusual are not at all uncommon experiences. According to recent Mayo Clinic studies close to 70% of all people experience these sensations while the sleep. Its generally believed the cause is as your body begins to enter a restful state the muscles begin to ease up. The Brain sometimes misinterprets this as if you were falling and then sends signals to your muscles to jerk you awake. All though researchers have concluded this is a natural part of the sleeping process, we still do not know why the body does this.

  • Posted Sep 29, 2008 11:22 am PT
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• 21Sep 08

  So I'm at this used video game shop in smyrna...

  when all of a sudden I see it.

  Grim Fandango for 10 dollars. With box and manual pretty good condition too. So awesome I had to make a blog post about it.

  • Posted Sep 21, 2008 9:50 pm PT
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