7 days and 7 nights...

... thats how long my experiment has lasted.

No major breakthroughs - 7 days without energy drinks.

On a side note, this has lowered the need to smoke by around 25% and the hunger is back.

Constantly tiered...

23 days more to go...

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Guinea pig by choice...

I have always been skeptical about all the food additives advertised as the miracle cure for almost all diseases and symptoms, so naturally I'm skeptical about this experiment also. As winter is coming and the pressure at work is rising and more and more new tasks are piling in the work queue and one more major project beginning I need something to keep me sharp.

So far I have been drinking coffee a and espresso to keep the mind sharp, but lately it has started to stop giving the kick I have become used to, so the natural next step was to start with energy drinks (Dynami:t, Red Bull, Battery, Hustler, Red Devil, LX, Traffic, Red Energy, Starter, Burn, Firestarter, Energy, Rodeo, Dark Dog, etc... - hmm, I didn't know there were so many available here...) but they are not meant for day to day use. Also they can cause prolonged fatigue after prolonged usage not to mention the stress to the body when recovering from from the constant hyper stimulated state.

Ok, back to the subject - as I was watching the TV I saw an add for a drug called Neurozan. It was advertised as "food for a thinking mind" so it is a perfect drug to test my skepticism.

After little googeling I found the specs for it and to my surprise - its an food additive/complex vitamin joined together. Ok, some components stay a mystery for myself, so lets hope those are the "secret" components that provide the "food for the mind" part of the advertisement. So if it does not work it will provide me full days worth of vitamins.

The pest way to test if this really works or if it is a placebo is the increase the pressure (will happen next week with 2 fold) and start taking the pills. Tho this raises another question - if the placebo effect works one way (making you believe the drug works even if its just plain candy in a medical capsule) will it work the other way (will my skepticism work against the effects of the pill)? The only way to know is in 30 days :)

Tho, I will not substitute my regular coffee and espresso that I drink at work with water I will try to lower my usage of the energy drinks. I'm not going cold turkey on a thought that it might help...

Day 1 - no effect so far :)

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Vita Combibo...

At least thats how I feel today...
The whole week I have started to feel the change in weather.

And todays winter storm can only address what I'm feeling.

So in short - I'm sick@home...

Crap...

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Phoenix rising...

Its been really long since my last post, but the Murphy's laws are at work when you least expect them.

So what have I been up to? Well work, work work....
I have not had time to write anything and when I had the time I had nothing good to write about. So I didn't want o make this blog about some usual whining blogs, when reading wont provide anything useful. Only stress and agony.

But as usual I don't have anything good to say. Only to bitch about my life.


So to make this whining short - our IT is moving to a different location sometime in the near future. Ok that does not sound really bad at first, but there is a catch. My time to go to work and back will be extended by at least 45 minutes each way. As I drive to work around 45 minutes on good conditions and daily spend around 1.5h driving, it will double. As it isn't bad enough I heard today that in the new location the parking spaces are limited and I might not even get a parking space.

So this has made me to consider about switching my employer. As I like my current collective I just cant bare stupid political decisions.

Well enough for today - lets see what Murphy can think up next...

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