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Five days.

That’s how long my caffeine withdrawals lasted.

You’re probably saying “WTF?”

Well, I tried a little experiment. I’ve talked before about my New Years resolution to cut back on the coffee. WAAY back. “Everything in moderation” I said. Well, that helped some. But not enough.

I don’t like the person I am sometimes, and I blame it on lots of things - stress, depression, medicine, lack of sleep, too much sleep, lack of sex - the list goes on and on.

(astute readers will notice I did not say “too much sex” in that list, because I’m pretty sure there is no such thing)

And my blood pressure! Dang, it’s all over the map. This in spite of generally eating healthy and exercising. Gee, blood pressure might be related to being a grumpy asshole much of the time, ya think?

So here was my experiment - I quit drinking coffee. (insert ‘Airplane!’ quote of your choice here). Go ahead, laugh - I am. Now.

OMG people, let me tell you - it is not well documented by doctors, but caffeine withdrawal sucks, and not in a good way. I’m here to testify. It all happens and more. (Roseanne Roseanna Danna? Yup.)

But after five days, I’m feeling much, much better. Almost human. And? I haven’t died! I didn’t fall asleep at my desk! (well, almost, it was touch and go for a couple days there).

All I have to do now is try and repair the damage done with my family, especially over the past week, but perhaps over the last ten or fifteen years. I had no idea what a jerk I had been, until I’m looking at it now, without coffee-colored glasses. I’m still an ass, but maybe I can manage my inner asshole a little better now. I hope so. My kids, my wife, everyone - they deserve much better than I have been giving, for a long time now.

So, pushing ahead, and onward, I suppose. Just felt like sharing.

…if you don’t want to be my friend anymore.

I’m cutting back on the coffee. (c)

Way back. Might have to do away with it entirely.

I’m just so not a nice person some days. Many days. Too many days (ask my kids). And I’m thinking the caffeine might be part of the problem, rather than the solution. Wish me luck.

:p

I grabbed this from ThinkProgress, but it is very interesting that now that we are five years beyond this historic day, not only has ABC created a “dramatized” account (translate: make it more exciting for viewers, to drive ratings), but their Football division has decided to put on a double header on September 11.

How many people have died because of what happened? Both that day, and in the wars we created in their name, soldiers and many more thousands of innocent civilians.

On September 10 and 11, ABC Television is planning to air a program called “The Path to 9/11.” Though ABC claims that the program is based on the facts, the truth is that it distorts the facts and the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission. The ABC program, written by avowed conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh, goes out of its way to place blame on the Clinton administration for 9/11 and whitewash the failures of the Bush administration. That simply isn’t true.

Help me do something about it.

Visit this website and send a message to ABC: http://www.ThinkProgress.org/TellABC

This made me laugh out loud. I thought it was satire, like The Onion, but then I realized they were serious.

Hello?

The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.

The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”

Fifty. Four. Years.

She was a teacher for fifty four years, and presumably not required to “be silent” that whole time.

Pardon my french, but What the fuck?

It gets better. The kid that fired her is on the city council!

The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city’s day-to-day operations is a woman.

“I believe that a woman can perform any job and fulfill any responsibility that she desires to” outside of the church, LaBouf wrote Saturday.

I say “kid” because I doubt he has been there all these 54 years. BTW, here’s his blog (we’re discussing the ’seven deadly sins” this week) and here’s the church’s web page. It’s nice to see they support our troops, although I suspect it’s only the males they really support.

Republicans Tie Minimum Wage to Tax Cut - Forbes.com

If you’re a fry cook and you want a raise, we gotta let some millionaire’s kid (that probably hasn’t been born yet) have a tax break. That’s democracy in action!

Congress would pass an increase in the minimum wage before leaving Washington for vacation, but only as part of a package rolling back taxes on the heirs of multimillionaires, a Senate leadership aide said Friday.