It’s Christmas so turkey will be a plenty for the next few weeks. I was wondering what sort of damage are we causing ourselves by eating turkey followed by coffee and sweet snacks? Here’s what I am getting at. Turkey has Tryptophan which is notorious for putting you to sleep. And just as you’re feeling drowsy you get a cup of coffee and the caffeine brings you right back up. There is an internal war going on and I can’t imagine the end results being that healthy.

Stephanie has written about it, and now I am too. Chad was kind enough to give us Matthew Good fans a headsup about a new demo called Black Helicopter. This song kicks immense amounts of ass, so before the Tryptophan kicks in give it a listen.

Right Click > Save As and turn up the speakers for Black Helicopter.

Before leaving Dell I wondered if I made the right choice. Was I leaving a secure job for something very risky? Would I be able to handle the workload? And most importantly, would I regret the decision? So far I can tell you that all answers point to “awesome choice”, but I think the below picture brings that message home.

Yeah, I don’t regret leaving Dell at all. It was 4:30PM Thursday afternoon after I had just bought two burgers from Harvey’s when I was handed an ice cold Kokanee. It was a fantastic lunch, probably the best you could have while still at the office.

In other news, I was able to watch the four episode of CurlTV (the TV show on Sportsnet) which airs on Sunday and it’s a doozie. Don’t miss it! There is a good segment about the website and some hot-hot closeup action of my archive page. If only you knew how long it took to get that to work at 100%. There is also a lot of Olympic Trials coverage, and some timely burns about the Ferbey 4 not making it through. Oh yeah, there is also talk about nude female curlers, but that’s minor. So that’s Sunday on Sportsnet at 10AM MST – do it!

Have a good Saturday!

Edit: I think I am going to go for a My theme in naming the posts, ala the Scrubs naming convention. We’ll see how it works out, even if it’s for a week or something.

When I was updating the previous post todayI had a tough time pulling up the site. I couldn’t access it through my FTP either so I was a little concerned. I could PING the site fine but just couldn’t pull it up anywhere. And when it did come it up was sluggish, so for the time it was acting buggy I apologize – not too sure what caused that.

On the way home from work this evening Jetta and I avoided yet another accident. I believe this brings the total up to seven or so. And a good majority are on the Whitemud (or the Bridge of Death), and that’s where this one was. Right where west bound Whitemud meets the free flow lane for Fox Drive was an accident taking it down to one lane. The traffic was backed up for 2KM (by my odometer) and on Sonic 102.9 Adam Thompson asked for those who knew what was going on to call in. I did my good deed and told it how it was.

Eventually the update on the Whitemud Drive was given and I felt warm and fuzzy inside. I called in another time in the past to Zed 99 (out in Red Deer). On my way to work in Bowden I passed a quasi-accident that could pose problems but it was never aired so I made up for that today.

Together Jetta and I will clean up this city, we will be the new crime fighting force. Horrah!

I seem to be doing a “one day on – one day off” thing here. Well I will make it up to you all, I promise*. I would like to say I have been busy, but it’s been my weekend and like any good weekend I have little to show for it.

On Tuesday Jenna and I ran our own Holiday Marathon. We spent five hours at West Edmonton Mall. Crossing one phase to another, getting gift ideas, spending cash and becoming frustrated along the way. It was everything you would expect from holiday shopping. The crowds were small so that made the experience better. I haven’t gotten tired of Christmas music yet, although I have been fortunate enough to have minimal exposure. I guess one thing about waiting until the end to shop is that you’re in the mall for less time? Does that logic make any sense at all?

And today, or what I refer to as New-Sunday I caught up on some TV. I watched the Survivor finale (go Danni) as well as the second last Apprentice (go Randal) and four episodes of Lost. I was only going to watch two, but after I made it to the third I had to find out what happened. I now have three episodes until I am caught up with the rest of the world and then I will be going through withdrawls like Charlie.

Also today I went skiing. I dusted off the Head TR20″s and went to Rabbit Hill. It’s a modest hill, but two hours of night skiing for $11 can’t be beat. Especially when the hill is quiet and the weather is good. I usually go skiing once a year but when I make multiple trips to the mountains this year I wanted to be prepared. Something occured to me though, there are two things I can do without on a ski hill: ice and snowboarders. And incidently, one is caused from the other. Huh, fancy that.

That should be all for now Internet, it’s been swell.

* actual promise may not contain anything real or of value

NBC will bring back the comedy Scrubs on Jan. 3 at 9:00 p.m., scheduling two original episodes back-to-back each week.

That is an hour of Scrubs each week all in an attempt to end the season on time and make up for the three month hiatus. In other good news, it looks like season three will be released on DVD in February so “tis the season of Scrubs.