Why My Life Sucks

Even if it is a BMW ad, it still pretty cool.

Voltaren twice a day 50 mg  (For joint pain.  Mainly my left arm, but both knees act up at times)
Cymbalta twice a day 30mg (So I’m not a danger to self or others)
Lorazepam up to twice a day 2mg (Anti panic attack)
Adderall twice a day 10mg (ADHD medication)
Temazepam bed time 30 mg (in theory 15mg or 30 but based on history, 30mg) (Sleep aid)
Lamictal bedtime 200mg (Mood stabilizer)

That works out to 11 pills a day,assuming I don’t have a migraine.  Having a migraine will add from 2 to 5 more pills.  I laugh at your silly commercials that compare pill counts taken  for OTC pain medications.

I’m bipolar. I have Aspergers. I have migraines. I’m dyslexic. Those four alone makes my view of the world some what different than base line human. I don’t pay that much attention to popular culture. I have a very limited number of TV shows I watch (NCIS, Mythbusters, House MD, Law and Order CI, Burn Notice,Top Chef and Project Runway). Even then most of the time I watch on my DVR which means that I don’t see ads very often. I listen to NPR on the radio, which also cuts way down on the ads. I don’t watch sports of any sort. I don’t drink mega-brew beer.

I use Firefox on Linux as my primary web browser. I have Adblock Plus installed and have a pretty good set of filter attached to it, which means I don’t see internet ads either. Because I’m not using Windows, I don’t have the constant fight against malware, either at home or at work (work machine is a G5 iMac).

My primary means of entertainment is table top role playing games. This does involve contact with other people, they more or less live in my world, or at least understand what my world is.

This lack of contact with the main stream rises up and bites me in the butt every once and while, but all and all, I think I like my world better than the real world. Well, other than the migraines and bipolar part.

Normally I don’t deal well with covers of the 4 or 5 songs that make up my internal soundtrack. Blue Oyster Cult’s Burning for You is one of those.

Shiny Toy Guns have done, while not a quite a cover, a version of it, which got parts of it picked up by the Lincoln MKS commercial. Once I got the car right it was a quick google to get. While It’s not going to replace the BOC version in my internal track, it’s not 100% bad either. It’s not the same song, for several reasons, it’s more like a song inspired by “Burning for you”
Compare and Contrast with the original, more or less. Important safety note. The BOC video makes less sense than normal, even for early 80’s rock video standards.

Bleh.   Not the worst of the bud products, but damn sure not worth the extra charge   they attach to it.

From their press release:
“Budweiser American Ale defines a new style of ale ‘The American Ale’ with the full-bodied taste profile of the amber ale style, yet remarkably smooth and balanced,” said Eric Beck, brewmaster for Budweiser American Ale.

I want some of his drugs.   If this has a full body taste profile, I’m massively over weight and, oh, I don’t know, some thing like ” GW Bush is the most popular president ever”.

I now have 5 bottles of beer to give to friends who don’t like weird beers so they can think they are drinking a real beer like us beer snobs.     They claim a IBU of ~28, but I’m thinking 15ish is closer.   It’s flat tasting, (and for that matter fairly flat in general).   So-so mouth feel.   Loses it’s head with remarkable speed and has no, repeat no, after taste.   I’ve had water with more bite.
They also claim 5.2% by vol, which is either bull shit or they make special beer just for Oklahoma,   my bottle clearly says not more than 3.2% by weight.     Which does bring up the point, which I will look up some time, which rating (volume vs weight) gives the “higher” number.     Evidence says volume.     Which means a lot of Oklahoma rednecks that drive across the border to get “6 point beer” are wasting time, gas and money.

Will not buy again, with or with out live angry fish in bottle.

I think I’m going to have a Flying Dog Road Dog Porter or a glass of The Darling Wife’s Blackberry Merlot. I’d make my self a Gin and Tonic, but I’m out of Tonic and straight Gin and my tummy is Right Out.

The running score card:
(The daily beer will show up in Bold Red)

Of course “Jervis” was a little more direct about which store it was than I was here.   I think the moral of the stories is that even if you are a geek, Best Buy is NOT your best place to buy computers at.     Believe it or not I would recommend one of the places where they sell office stuff, i.e Staples or Office Depot over any of the home electronics stores.   I’d also beg, borrow or steal a copy of Windows XP if getting a new computer.   Vista still has issues.

I’ve made the blogging big time!   I’m getting content spam!   Yeah!

Actually,   Spam Karma 2 is still kicking them out, but it means I’m high enough in the Google ranks to get noticed…..

I was for Giuliani, but he went weird on his plan. Not his ideas mind you, just how to run for office. I could have lived with Fred Thompson, but he had an even weirder idea on how to run for office.

But the more I read and listen to McCain, the more I like him.

Super Tuesday is over and I will not hear any more political ads for at least 6 months.

The bad news is that various people are reading way to much into the Oklahoma results.

For starters, we are the state that disproves this meme. Oklahoma’s black percentage is 7.76% . Well under 15%. Hillary won by like 24%.

Then we have the issue with Huckabee’s “sweep” of the south. Not so fast bucky. McCain won here. Granted only by 3 percent, but this is a more or less winner take all state for the GOP. I’ll grant that Huckabee won 2 of the 5 congressional districts, giving him 6 delegates, but it’s still not a sweep. Stop saying that.

Something I’ve noticed, that Fedex proper, as well as Fedex/Kinko’s has started showing ads that basically say that their users are morons.

Fedex’s example is the “lemming” ad.

Kinko’s is the color copy of a black and white document ad.

I use Kinko’s a lot, but their current ads are just a bit off putting.