Lately I've become obsessed with Juice.
Let me explain. I'm a Mountain Dew guy. I drink it, and in gallons. I stock Mountain Dew in my shelf in the pantry. I have two rows of Mountain Dew in my shelf. Each row is 5 2 liters deep. I refer to them as my Primary and Auxiliary Mountain Dew Supplies. When I dip into the auxiliary supply, it's probably time to do the grocery shopping.
But lately I've begun to notice things. I'm getting older. My contacts are a bit off my prescription again. I wake up a little later and fall asleep a bit earlier. I am most decidedly no longer a teenager.
And along with this strange new feeling, I've noticed a tiny pot belly, and a health situation would make either of our coolest recent Presidential Health Advisors weep openly. I drank a cup of coffee for breakfast. I ate lunch once a week, drank mountain dew all day, and all night, ate a (macar|rice-o|pasta)roni based dinner or a frozen pizza. Then I would have a few beers and munch on some crackers as I coded or did homework all night.
So Rob realizes that he's gonna die if he doesn't change his lifestyle somehow. So I decided to start small- it's a tiny step, but one that needs to be made. I've cut down my Mountain Dew intake; I no longer drink Mountain Dew after 5:00pm or so.
Short term, since I no longer have my Mountain Dew based system to determine a grocery shopping schedule, I often forget to buy groceries. Longer term, I need to find a substitute to drink each evening.
I weighed the alternatives and decided to switch to drinking Juice. Not kool-aid like Kurt or Guinness like Dave or Heineken like Nate, but Juice. I haven't sworn off my trusty Honey Brown beer, but my intake is less. Because now I crave Juice!
But now I've become obsessed with it. It's hard to describe really. I suspect that this is my brains reaction to Juice being my Mountain Dew Substitute. My brain realizes thirst, and has some early warning system shoot off an email to central command, which is intercepted (I have few free IRQs) and fed to a quick job that launches a reply message to desire Juice. And Loudly.
Thus central command never recieves the orders, and never checks the system to confirm that the preferred beverage is in fact, Mountain Dew.
So I drink Juice. I've tried Apple Juices and Grape Juices and various flavors with cran. I've tried Welches and Others who's names that I can't recall, but who's bottles had distinctive shapes. Today I'm having something with Mango in it. I think about Juice. I wonder if there is another kind of Juice that I might perhaps like better. I crave Juice while writing code late in the evenings. I think about sales where I can get juice on Sale. I've yet to degenerate to collecting Juice Coupons, but I can only assume that those stupid pieces of paper are the last step for me. The last step between obsessive and insane. It's a wierd little obsession, but at least its mine. [an error occurred while processing this directive]