[geeks] Buzzzzz

[Dave McGuire]

On December 20, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 12 oz. every 90 minutes? Where does the fluid go? Do you sweat it off? No,
> wait, never mind - forget I even asked...

  Umm, the toilet? ;)

> >   Myself I will put down easily three cans of soda with a meal.
> 
> You da man! Why? Doesn't it just reach a point where you are drinking out of
> habit?

  Of course.  Does that somehow make it less valid, or less "drank"?

> I once went "cold turkey" for three days - remember the huge snow strom
> about 6 - 7 years ago that shut down the east coast - it was not by choice,
> and it was not pretty. I was stuck at my aunt's house, they had *no* caffine
> at all! (Barbaians!)
> 
> I took a lot of naps, I avaoided relatives, and stopped at the first
> convienience shop on the way out of town and bought a lot of crap (Hostess,
> Coke, beef jerkey, etc.)

  I made it ten days once, and four the next time.  Had a debilitating
headache the whole time.  It was terrible.  I won't be trying it
again.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf