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On the perils of caffeine
Feb. 20th, 2009 11:23 pmOk I need to go back and go to sleep soon, because it seems I'll be taking the technician license ham radio control operator exam in the morning so I can legally man one of the radio relay points if needed for toracon (exam should be pretty quick, only 35 questions. And one of them is if copper is a better conductor than wood, plastic or rubber. Yeah.)
So I had started drinking coffee again for all of three days before deciding that was a bad idea, not wanting to spend all of my available funds on drowning myself in caffeinated oblivion in the name of getting work done. So Wednesday I decided I'd not be going for coffee. And the result was not even having enough motivation to make it out of the apartment. Not all was wasted, but still not as productive a day as it should have been. Yesterday and today were much better (though I really do need to make it to the gym tomorrow), only having green tea, though I did end up with a bottle of pepsi tonight somehow. It's weird though, because I actually like tea much better than coffee, but caffeine + compulsiveness usually wins. Even really really really good tea is cheaper than buying coffee by the cup. So to help with that in the future I will hopefully soon have a Zojirushi CD -LCC30 3 liter electric hot water dispensing pot! Been sorta lusting after one of those for a while, considering how much time it'll save compared to what I have to spend waiting for the freaking microwave nowadays for hot water.
Additionally, I can just use the stainless steel mug directly instead of heating in the plastic ones first, which is nice considering that plastics can leech into hot water... of course I've been using those mugs for years now and so any effect that would have had on my hormone balance probably would have already ocurred. And zojirushi uses a teflon-like nonstick coating, so I'm trading plasticizers for teflon, yum! guess you just can't win against chemicals these days. Chemicals, they're everywhere!
So I had started drinking coffee again for all of three days before deciding that was a bad idea, not wanting to spend all of my available funds on drowning myself in caffeinated oblivion in the name of getting work done. So Wednesday I decided I'd not be going for coffee. And the result was not even having enough motivation to make it out of the apartment. Not all was wasted, but still not as productive a day as it should have been. Yesterday and today were much better (though I really do need to make it to the gym tomorrow), only having green tea, though I did end up with a bottle of pepsi tonight somehow. It's weird though, because I actually like tea much better than coffee, but caffeine + compulsiveness usually wins. Even really really really good tea is cheaper than buying coffee by the cup. So to help with that in the future I will hopefully soon have a Zojirushi CD -LCC30 3 liter electric hot water dispensing pot! Been sorta lusting after one of those for a while, considering how much time it'll save compared to what I have to spend waiting for the freaking microwave nowadays for hot water.
Additionally, I can just use the stainless steel mug directly instead of heating in the plastic ones first, which is nice considering that plastics can leech into hot water... of course I've been using those mugs for years now and so any effect that would have had on my hormone balance probably would have already ocurred. And zojirushi uses a teflon-like nonstick coating, so I'm trading plasticizers for teflon, yum! guess you just can't win against chemicals these days. Chemicals, they're everywhere!
