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A month ago, I made myself a promise to make an effort to eat healthier. My goal is to get back on track with the diet of drastically limited amounts of sugars and the unhealthy carbohydrates. The problem is, I love so many of the very foods I should not be eating. Apple Pie, Ice Cream, rice, pasta, bread… I love it all. I have managed to get myself into the habit of reading labels, but I find that I am quite adept at overlooking the fact that my selection is going to give me 36 grams of SUGAR and consuming it anyway. My scapegoat… Well, lately I tend to try to convince myself that I’ll “be good tomorrow”. The result of my actions … GUILT. However, I did find a fairly good alternative – recommended to me by someone at work, who heard about it from her doctor. These drinks have a variety of flavors and some have 0 grams of sugar while others have an abundance of it. All of them have antioxidants (hint: these are good for you); and overall it is a good choice, and I just felt like sharing my discovery with you.
side note… I do not receive any type of benefits by endorsing the product.

Decisions Left to Chance

Earlier this week, I saw a man walking downtown. As he got closer to the corner, he reached into his pocket and pulled (something) out; which was too small for me to see.

A few seconds later, I knew what the something was based on what the man did next. He stopped walking and tossed the something into the air, following it with his eyes as it arched up and slightly left. He then caught the something in his right hand and slapped it onto the back of his left hand.

Cautiously, he lifted his hand and peered beneath it. Then, he put the something back into his pocket, pivoted left on his heel with the precision of a marching band member and started walking again.

Speaking of… (Summary Updates)

Critter-cal Care: The cat was hospitalized last week. He was admitted Wednesday night and he had a rough time regaining his strength; but he returned home today. Hopefully he will continue to improve and not relapse. It was a very long week. I did manage to get some sleep (although it was sporadic and interrupted).

Sleep: I have managed to sleep okay (on some nights)… sort of. While I would probably be a good candidate for long-term sleep aid studies, I don’t want to take something EVERY night. On the nights I have decided to take this herbal remedy, I have slept well with little groggy feeling the next morning and felt ready for work.

Work: Work has been busy. I have felt a little more positive lately when it comes to my self-evaluation of my performance on the job. I would love to take a vacation, but right now I cannot afford to go anywhere anyway; so I have put that on the back burner — along with my plans to work on the comment script.

They Found Me!

Well, the spammers found my comments, which means it’s time to work on tweaking the script to make it harder for them to do so in the future. I’m sure that many of you recall the fact that any previous attempt at “tweaking” the comment script has usually resulted in the comments being completely trashed or disabled. I always manage to restore them, but — I usually do not manage to fix whatever problem I was attempting to fix in the first place. The other problem that arises from these attempts is that while I am swimming around in alien-to-me php code and scripting languages that I do not fluently speak, I am not writing; and those of you that I have determined are versed in such scripts may be burdened with a few cries for help from me.

In addition to my comment script being molested, I have been receiving an abundance of solicitation via e-mail lately. I reported the assailant to the proper domain host authority; although my expectations regarding their response is not very high at this time.

In summary, I have been hit by fly-by-advertisers in my comments – and I am not going to just sit here and let them abuse my scripts.

Knock on Wood!

Can the date, “Friday the 13th” really be blamed for the strange things seem to happen, or do we just notice the oddities more because we anticipate them happening? I have never had anything tragic happen to me on a Friday the 13th (knock on wood); I am not a particularly superstitious person, although I am familiar with many superstitious beliefs and remember them whenever something reminds me of such beliefs.

As much as I wouild love to stay in safety of my house today, watching the world behave erratically via news reports, I must go out and witness it first hand! (off to work I go)

Best of luck to you all today – watch out for the freaky weirdos.

Too Much Self Reflection Makes Pero a Dull Boy

For the past week or maybe a little longer, I have been tempted to arrive home from work, and immediately begin drinking heavily. Of course, I never do things like that; especially not with a kid at home and knowing I have to be up very, very early to work another shift. Not only are my hangovers much more severe than they were 15 years ago… but it would also be highly unethical for me to work with any trace of alcohol left in my bloodstream.

Despite my efforts at convincing myself otherwise, I feel as if my supervisor(s) are unhappy with my performance at work. I feel as if I am not doing things up to their standards. Lately, I find myself feeling over-worked and exhausted just a few hours into a shift.

All of this anxiety (for lack of a better word) is affecting my sleep; and some of you know that I rarely sleep enough as it is. I repeatedly find myself awake and worrying over being replaced. There is no talk – from the Sup’s or from other “associates”, at least not any that I have heard; so these fears are likely completely irrational on my part.

That isn’t changing the fact that I constantly feel like I am being judged. Mind you, I am not asking for advice or anything, I just wanted to describe these feelings to see if any of you (regularly) have feelings of inferiority when it comes to your job performance.

After I wrote this I (realized/admitted) that I AM being judged by my harshest critic, (which would be myself.)

Little Brown Box

When I got home from work today, there was a small brown box on my porch. I picked it up and carried it inside and opened it… They came! Giddyup!

I saw this on FoodTV or HGTV or something one Sunday morning. The guy that presented it literally said, “you press a button and the cork is gone”. I wondered, well where does the cork go? What happens to it? Does it disintegrate? What if I wanted to keep it? That is how I originally found the Zevro site.

While I was there I found the bottle cap remover too. I had to get it. It was just a cool concept that one day, when I have a fancy bar in my house, that I have nice things to use.

And no, I have not received anything for plugging these cool products. I just wanted to say that I think they are really cool. By the way, after I e-mailed Zevro inquiring about the RAM – on their site, which at the time had no description — they renamed it and added the description. Behold, I am Pero, and I can change the world… or at least the internet.