No coffee: week 1

Well, I've made it a whole week without coffee, or any form of
caffeine for that matter. I meant to post everyday giving status
updates but you know how life is. So I'll give you a quick run down of
how the week went.

Monday (day 1): I already posted about Monday (see previous post No
coffee: day 1), but I have something to add. Due to the extreme
feeling of having been kicked in the head I skipped my Scout meeting
to go to bed early.

Tuesday (day 2): Headache, but not quite as bad as on Monday. Savannah
brought some pain killers to me at lunch time to take the edge off. My
head was foggy, and thinking was very difficult. Very tired. Start
drinking caffeine free herbal tea.

Wednesday (day 3): Headache getting better but still taking pain
killers every 4 or 5 hours. The fog in my brain is lifting, but I'm
still not the brightest bulb on the tree. Still very tired.

Thursday (day 4): Headache is almost gone, one dose in the morning and
no more. Fog is also thinning. Still very tired, but sleeping much
better.

Friday (day 5): Headache gone, no pain killers required. Fog is gone.
Still very tired.

Saturday (day 6): Got to sleep in a couple hours, so I'm feeling pretty good.

Sunday (day 7): Slept in again for a couple hours. Nice to catch up on
my sleep, and I'm sleeping so much better now.

Monday (day 8): Week 1 without coffee completed. Stomach is feeling
better, and I'm sleeping much better. I'm still pretty tired all the
time, but not falling asleep on my feet like I was at the start of the
week. Drinking herbal tea like it's going out of style.

So there we have it. The current status of my effort to kick the
coffee habit. Still....so very tired....Zzzzzz...

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No coffee: day 1

For any of you who know me, you'll know I drink a lot of coffee...well, used to drink a lot of coffee. I've decided to give it up. The present thought is, I'll sleep much better if I'm not drinking coffee all day, and I won't have so many stomach problems.

So, day one without coffee. The day didn't go as bad as I thought it was going to. I was tired, most of the day, but I'm usually tired, just slightly more so without coffee. My desk is just outside the kitchen at the office, which didn't help matters, people going in and out all day getting coffee, and a fresh brewed pot is always there. The headaches hit in the afternoon, making me feel like I was just kicked in the head by a combat boot. Unfortunately I had forgotten to take any pain killers to wok with me. Oh well, I survived. Must remember pain killers tomorrow.

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Victory Science

Let us never forget just what's at stake in the war in Afghanistan: nothing less than the success of the war in Afghanistan. This war may be a mistake, a blood-soaked blunder, an unholy carnal house mindlessly consuming the bodies and souls of untold thousands, an open sore on the pockmarked face of history and an abomination before the sight of God and men, but it is first and foremost a war, and wars must be won. If the United States doesn't win this war, then will it not lose it? And if the United States loses this war, then won't the Unites States have lost it? And if the United States has lost this war, will that not then make the United States a kind of thing that loses wars? And then where would we be?

And just as America can't afford to abandon this war, surely it can't afford to abandon the Afghan people, who without the American military would be left to the savage whims of their hated enemy, the Afghan people. Indeed, it remains America's solemn duty as the leader of the free world to bring freedom and security to the Afghan people by hunting down and eliminating the Afghan people. Nor can America forget its own national security, and the dire threat posed by the Afghan people to our war against the Afghan people.

But we must also remember that the Afghans, menaced even though they are by the evil of the Afghans, are not blameless here. Have they sufficiently appreciated our efforts to kill them? No, they have not. Have they effectively and efficiently rebuilt their nation whenever we've had cause to blow it up? No, they have not. Have they become full and effective participants in the ongoing mission to kill them? No, they have not. It is long past time for the people of Afghanistan to step up their efforts to kill themselves, and not merely rely on American generosity to finish the job for them.

And so the President will be sending additional troops to Afghanistan - but a precise number of troops, carefully determined by the nation's top warologists after long months of carpet-bombing villages of laboratory mice - and they will kill Afghans there, but only for a precise period of time, calculated to be the exact interval necessary to protect our freedoms, or restore our security, or for all of us to grow bored and forget.

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