James Says It

I got news for you, pal. One of those 23 flavors you’d been gulping down for years is actually an antidote that your body quickly processes. This is to counteract another of the 23 flavors, which is a lethal toxin that stays in your system for months.

There are no “former dr. pepper drinkers.” At least, none that live for more than 8 weeks or so. You’re stuck, addicted. Just another soda slave paying for a carbonated “cure.” If you’re serious about quitting, and I doubt you are, I wish you the best of luck. Most go mad before the end. Others crack after just a few days, telling themselves “just one more case,” and not really believing it. Probably the best you can hope for is to die with dignity, instead of being gunned down after robbing a soda machine, like so many others.

I got my Christmas lights up this year.  Nothing too fancy, but I did get some cool Gemmy color changing leds. Here is a short video for your viewing pleasure.

When I get mad on the road, I have a little technique I like to use…
Just imagine that all the cars travelling alongside you are like warplanes, and you’re all headed off to meet the enemy in gallant, explosive aerial combat. It’s easy to imagine:

Big semi-trucks, cement-mixers and tractors are bombers.

Little econoboxes are fighters.

Big 4-door sedans are like multi-purpose ground-attack planes.

Sports cars are like high-altitude stealth bombers.

It makes you look at people on the road differently. It’s as if you’re all on the same team and makes it extra cool when a group of you turn off onto a bridge or something, because it’s just like in the movies when 5-6 planes sheer off a big formation and go diving into action.

I often use this technique when I’m on a long road-trip, because it’s like I’m returning from a mission where our squadron got totally decimated and once in a while you’ll see another car and be like “JOHNNY, YOU MADE IT!”

High beams are your guns, so at night if you see an oncoming vehicle flashing their brights at you, you need to immediately snap into evasive maneuvers (quick lane change) and open fire on him (flicking brights on and off as quick as possible).

If you crash your car while driving, consider it like crash-landing in enemy territory and instead of exchanging information with the person you hit, try to slink off unseen under cover of darkness into the woods or out of sight into an alley.

My dad had his surgery on the 10th.  He spent the night in critical care, then got transferred to a regular room on the 11th, where he stayed until the 12th. He is home and everything is fine now.  I stayed up there at the hospital the entire time during visiting hours. I spent a lot of time utilizing the hospital’s free wireless internet.