Monday, August 11, 2008

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

• Wendy & I turned 28


• I celebrated my first wedding anniversary


• I closed on a house in the Bay Area.


• Trip to Calistoga (just last weekend)


• Trip to Mendocino


• Trip to Big Sur/Carmel


• Trip to Lake Tahoe


• Started a remodel project


• Hired two general contractors


• Fired the first general contractor


• Made too many trips to various material stores and got ripped off too often


• Spent six figures on a home remodel that seems like it'll never end in duration or cost


• Work is still work


• Got Halo3 & started playing it


• Planned a trip for Taiwan 11/15-11/27


• Dennis and Jean got married


• Nancy & Eddie to be married on Sunday


• Szu & Raymond to be married next Sunday


• Duke turning two tomorrow & Pepin turned three yesterday

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.


• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)


• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.


• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.


• 60+ minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.


• 60+ Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.


• 60+ minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.