Intake overindulgence

My brother and I decided that, instead of ordering individual slices, we would just get a whole pizza and a 2 liter. We were on the go, so there was no bringing leftovers with us. We were committed.

Remember in Back to the Future 2 when Doc Brown just dumped random garbage into Mr Fusion to power the Flux Capacitor? Yea, that's a teenager's stomach. You can give a teenage boy any garbage and they'll burn it and turn it into pure energy.

I am not Mr Fusion. I'm pushing 40, and that means I'm more like a lawnmower engine. I do my job slowly, but I can't handle just any fuel. Just like small engines choke on ethanol, I should never, never, eat half a pizza covered with extra gooey cheese in one sitting, shotgunning it with pure sugar and caffeine.

It was pretty good pizza, though. No gonna lie.

Intake deprivation

Seems this is the time of year my sinuses decide to just... stop. Like there's a golf ball size wad just rattling around in there, randomly plugging whichever side it's been thrown towards. The worst of it always happens when I haven't had much to eat.

I don't need to be hungry. I can go a good portion of the day without eating. But when this type of ailment encroaches on my sanity, the only thing that fixes it is to just overeat. Indulge, have a little of everything. Order an extra just for myself. Stir the pot while you add more everything.

I don't get full easily at these times, either.  I honestly can't say I understand what's going on, but a large meal followed by an equally large nap tends to work better than half the medicines out there.

A and B to CD

Vinyl and tapes had their A side and B side, which alphabetically led us to the CD. From there I could make a joke about MP3, but I'd get lost in a sea of file extensions and I don't think that's funny material at all.

I might also lose what little audience I have left on this blog.

My dear wife has apparently been disc swapping constantly while driving the kids around, and came to the conclusion that her husband (a man that's been manipulating audio files for decades) might be able to help her out.

When approaching the task, I realized that I haven't had to do this in some time. I felt like I had to knock the dust off the software and remind my computer that it had an optical drive. At some point I'll take out the last disc, and in that moment I won't really know it's the last one. Does anyone remember the last time they used a floppy disc? I got a replacement motherboard years back, and realized I couldn't connect my old floppy drive because it didn't have the right connection type. I never bothered to keep one after that. I simply couldn't remember when I ever needed it past late 2000, early 2001 or so.

It's a weird thing to think about.

Wardrobe season

It's that wonderful time of year where you have to put on a coat in the morning, but take it off before 9am because it suddenly got hot again. Then some clouds breeze overhead and the ice forms again. Once nature settles on a temperature, your coworkers will start to debate on whether to keep the overhead open, or turn on the AC.

Meanwhile I'm over here just ready for *anyone* to make up their mind.

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The case of the fused vertebrae

So my mother needed surgery. They needed to fuse three of the vertebrae in her neck. That was just over a week ago. She has to wear a cervical collar until Thanksgiving. She's sore, can't sleep well, can't eat most foods (has to be really soft)

And I'm over here like; my mom isn't invincible?

Follicle chroma

My wife began by saying I may have a hard time accepting what she's about to tell me.

Ladies: This is *not* how you change the subject when you're talking about your relationship.

ahem

So I braced myself and she paused before telling me I had a lot of gray hair. Having been prepared for some indeterminate bombshell about our relationship, I had to quickly switch gears to tell her that no, that wasn't a problem at all. In fact, it was just fine.

You see, you can only have gray hair if it's there.

Take a look at my family's genetics. I'm doomed to one day sport a chrome dome. I'll be saving a lot of money on shampoo. Both sides of the family granted me such a legacy. Both of my brothers are on their way.

...I'm not. Not yet, but I know it's happening. Two people have told me they think I'm thinning but photos from my early 20's show that's just not the case. (Pics of other people where my head is at an ungainly angle, to be honest)

I feel like my head is going to be that last tree in the fall that just suddenly dumps its leaves on the last day. If, however, I manage to skip that, I won't mind having a mess of silver locks.

Sun(set)

So the sunflowers were short lived. I got home from work the other day to find the two on the end had collapsed, toppling over and pulling out their own roots. As I set out to clear them, the others fell in succession, like dominoes.

My second born was very upset. My oldest questioned why. The rest noted that they could now see out the front window. After months of dull green stalks, I hoped that the bright yellow blossoms might last awhile.

Yea, I'm absolutely going with a different variety next year.