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Deliberately feeling like crap


July 14, 2006 - 5:22 p.m.

Today is the third anniversary of my divorce, which means my Freedom Bear has been sitting atop my file cabinet here at work for well over a thousand days now. Marriage seems like a fairly distant memory these days, and that's good.

What isn't good is that I just gave in to a completely inexplicable desire for orange soda. Normally, I never drink fruit-flavored soda: cherry, grape, orange, Mountain Dew, anything like that. Most of them contain brominated vegetable oils or ester gums, and both of those substances usually give me an upset stomach. I haven't consumed them for years as a result. But I was sitting here, and orange soda just seemed to be calling out to me, so against my longtime better judgment, I went and shoved seventy-five cents in the machine down the hall, cracked that can open and just guzzled the stuff.

As a result, I now am starting to feel like crap, which is a fine thing to be when I have to drive up to see Suzanne tonight. Blah.

I have accomplished a fair amount of stuff the last couple of days. I sent in the broken control shaft for the big Segway, arranged to get my small tractor back after $105 worth of carburetor repairs, and arranged to take a look at, and test-drive, that Volkswagen TDI Passat I want. That'll happen Monday night, and the auction ends Tuesday at noon. I am busily rounding up money into a nice neat pile to pay for it, assuming I win it, which I intend to. With oil hitting $77 a barrel today, I expect gas to be up to $3.29 by next week, where it's $2.99 at the Sheetz by me. That much more incentive to be using less gas, so the TDI car is that much more valuable to me.

Have you ever wondered why computer keyboards have a dollar-sign symbol, but none have ever had a cents symbol? Older typewriters used to, but I've never seen a computer keyboard with the cents symbol on it. Most humans in the United States would use it a hell of a lot more than the tilde or the reverse-quote or the caret, all of which have places on the standard PC keyboard.

Suzanne and I had a great talk last night on Skype, mostly about ways in which we can molest each other this weekend. I'm looking forward to it even more than the orange soda, and I usually feel a lot better afterward...


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