What a BuzzKill

… okay, more like I’ve got A fever.

I ended up leaving work early yesterday because I was starting to feel feverish and achy; the typical signs of a flu. I went straight home and started resting.

This morning I woke up feeling hotter — the thermometer verified this to be true — so I called in sick and decided to sweat it out. This is a tactic I’ve used to fight fever since I was a teenager: If my fever is 101° or lower, I’ll try bundling up in multiple blankets and sweating it out. If it’s higher, I’ll try Tylenol or Advil (or their generic equivalent) and/or a cold shower to bring it down, then try to sweat it out. I’ve never put much thought into it, since I only continue to do it because it has worked so well in the past.

Christine gave me a call to check on how I was feeling and I told her about my methods. It struck me as odd that I had never really investigated the reasons for a fever and why the body does what it does, so I decided to look it up. I now share this knowledge with you:

Fever – Wikipedia
A kid’s guide to fever
Fever – How Stuff Works

Seems as though the reasoning and logic behind my fever-fighting methods are pretty good!

I swear, I love this woman. I read her blog daily and find myself often agreeing with what she’s writing about. Her non-nonsense approach to dealing with the world is refreshing. With so many people filtering what they say to seem “politically correct” it’s nice to be able to read somebody’s real thoughts about things in life. Sure I might disagree with some of it, but most of the time I’m right there with her.

Today’s topic about lying made a lot of sense to me. I’ll be telling Rece the same thing her father told her. Check it out for yourself.

Do/did you like Super Mario? What about the classic FPS, Doom? If so, check this out!

They’re ugly as all get-out and they’re often killed on sight. Watch the video, as I did, and you’ll love them anyhow.

Bye-Bye to the Aye-Aye?

My last post was kinda heavy, so I decided to post something a bit more upbeat…

Well thanks to my wonderful friend Christine, I was able to go flying twice in less than a month. It was out of respect for my mom that I didn’t post about this sooner, as she had asked that I didn’t tell her about it until I was all done and safely back on the ground. Well, that time is now.

Christine had originally given these flights to her ex-husband as a gift a couple of years prior. He never used them and found them while he was getting packed to move. These flights were no cheap gift and Christine didn’t want them to go to waste, so she gave them to me, knowing that I’d definitely make the most of them.

On December 19th, 2006 I went on the first one; an aerobatic adventure flight. This was a lot of fun, as I learned how to make a plane do flips, spins, and all sorts of other maneuvers. My stomach got all queasy by the end, but I didn’t lose my lunch. That was some crazy stuff!

The second flight was on January 12th, 2007 — the dog fighting flight — where I had the opportunity to fly up against another pilot as though we were trying to shoot one another from the skies. He had a little bit of former flight experience, but years ago and I had the recent aerobatic flight as my experience to go by. As it turned out, we were both French Canadian – he was from Quebec, but living in Texas and me being born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We found this to be an interesting coincidence.

After some practice maneuvers we went in for 6 rounds against one another. This was some intense action, I tell you! The first round I lost very quickly. I just couldn’t figure out where he was and how to react. That sudden defeat kicked me in the ass, I have to say, so I went after him with all due aggression. I managed to win all 5 remaining rounds against him!

While the action as going on, I was ignoring the effects that all the maneuvering was having on my equilibrium. What I seemed to have forgotten came back to me as we started our flight back home. Yep, I admit it: I had to make use of the air sickness bag. But I felt much better after!

I have both of these flights on tape and will be putting them together into a video as soon as I can convert the recent one from tape into a format I can edit on the computer.

Thanks again, Christine!

These guys created a very entertaining stop-motion movie. At some points you’ll wonder how they did it. Rece and I really enjoyed this one.

I found this excellent article about how messed up the diamond market is and how essentially it’s all just a fabricated and artificially controlled scam. Wake up people!

Okay, I couldn’t help it. Here’s a list of some seriously messed up re-dubs of home holiday classics.

Enjoy!