Kookcity2000's Journal

10/15/2007 00:15 #41655

only in America

Went down to Zoar today with me cuz. boy what a perfect day for it.
It felt exceedingly good to run up to the Knife's Edge aka the Hog's Back aka that really big hill up there. I wish there was some more mountainous terrain around here.

found some cans near the car in the woods

The other day I purchased some cereals from Wegmans.

I thought they were just normal shredded wheat knockoffs but they were in fact Maple & Brown Sugar (NaturallyandArtificallyFlavored)

Holy shit they were so mapley they blew my mind. I haven't been able to get enough since.
I'll probably have to stop eating them when I get the diabeetus.

My theory: the extra 0.5oz is super Industrial grade Maple extract. Probably from Canada.

kookcity2000 - 10/28/07 20:55
you flatter me so!

matthew - 10/28/07 01:43
we missed you at the party tonight!!!!!

kookcity2000 - 10/20/07 01:03
I am quite down to visit such an agreeable country with such fine company.

janelle - 10/15/07 17:42
Drew and I went there Columbus Day. It was nice. I would love to see it when the leaves turn.

jenks - 10/15/07 17:16
I'm game, lib, if my schedule ever coordinates. I'm thinking ellicottville deserves a visit during "peak foliage" time too...

libertad - 10/15/07 10:57
Very nice pics. I would love to go there if anyone's into it when the leaves are peaking.

tinypliny - 10/15/07 04:21
Hahaha... I know exacly how you feel. I bought a big pack of vanilla coated wheaties once and I went through the entire cereal packet in less than a week. I remember being totally addicted to the vanilla kick and thinking that my teeth would surely rot if I ate them all semester - so I just veered away in the opposite direction at my next grocery visit. Addictions never helped anyone.

09/24/2007 00:14 #41280

vacation in Indian Summer

This year at my job I got (11.25) days off of which I've taken (3)

So the remaining eight days need to be used before the end of the year.
These are on top of the traditional US holidays plus [A] the first day of hunting season in Michigan (17Nov) and [B] a whole stinking week at Christmas-time.

So I took off nearly every other Friday from now to January, plus many of the Thursdays preceding.

Not to get into a work discussion but instead: WOO how does it feel to have so much free time? It feels great.

It feels great cause its pretty goddamn beautiful out and theres a lot of cool stuff to do when you have a lot of time.

Truly autumn is a bejeweled finger on the freak 6-finger hands of the calendar.

ALSO NOTE, DC & NY PEEPS:
So I know a guy who works for Meneral Gotors and he was saying how there is a mini-fleet of 100 or so fuel-cell vehicles that are out in the field right about now.

NY & DC dudes and dudettes alike can supposedly sign up for a 'test drive' at this here page.

I, I mean, my friend doesn't know any details about this dealy, but maybe it would be cool to hear about.
So you should try it out and then write about it.

09/17/2007 00:54 #41145

litres

Hey how much would you guess you pee a day?

A guy I work with was out a few days last week with kidney stones. This prompted us to to look on Wikipedia (they call it Peteypedia at work because I always use it to settle bets) .
So theres a really ugly picture of a kidney stone on the page but the big thing that got me was they say that you should produce 2 to 2.5 liters of urination a day as an indication of a healthy piss system.

So thats like 70+ fluid ounces or more than a rectangular carton of orange juice a day.

I thought about trying to collect and measure my 'throughput' this weekend but then I realized how fucking stupid that was.

Instead, I'm just going to drink a lot of water and hope for no kidney stones. FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS

Urinary Health:

jenks - 09/17/07 20:05
nah... that's too much... "acceptable" urine output is 0.5 ml/kg/hr- the "avg person" is 70kg so that's 35ml/hr. That's 840/day. Give or take.

Just call me jenksipedia.

metalpeter - 09/17/07 18:27
I heard somewhere that you are supposed to drink around 6 or 8 glasses of water a day. I'm not sure how much pee that would make. But what I can say is that it doesn't only come from stuff you drink. I don't know how much you get from things that have water or juice in them like fruits and vegies but should get some from things you eat.

lilho - 09/17/07 12:25
im gon recognize!

09/03/2007 22:56 #40922

etc

What a true pleasure it was to attend the party Sat night.
As always, everyone was true blue fun as hell.
Happy Birthday Mike & Terry and thanks Paul, Matt and Terry for another sweet party.

To the dude that emailed me asking about how to add music to your journal:

You can add pictures, audio and movie files to your posts.
The site will put a media player where appropriate (audio/video)

Also don't forget to set a user sound:

Click on the speaker in the top left corner to upload a file for your user sound.

paul - 09/04/07 09:00
Thanks for the tutorial imags, you rock.

08/26/2007 22:49 #40750

let it go

I saw a shootin star last night and it made me think about a firefly I hit with my truck in July.

At first it was a little streak of light in the dark but then it hit the windshield and the little dot got a little bigger.

Even though the firefly was at point a gummy mess, it was still glowing. As the glow faded away it occurred to me that it was probably a bad thing to hit a firefly with your truck, maybe like killing a mockingbird or something similar.

So I kind of felt bad and I"ll tell you what firefly, if we ever get reincarnated as the same species I"ll make it up to you. Like say we both are earthworms, one morning I can be the early earthworm (who would invariably get screwed by the early bird.)

I hope you got laid a lot and made lots of other fireflies.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

I found this MP3 from our band. It was a rough cut I encoded wrong and forgot I still had it.
It sounds better fast but I wish it had vocals.

Being forgetful and then finding stuff is like winning the stupid lottery, whereas the actual lottery is like paying a stupid tax.

metalpeter - 08/27/07 19:19
I have never seen Grave of the fireflies but have heard it is very good. In terms of other fireflies I loved the series on Fox it was kinda a space western and should have stayed on longer. Also back in my kid days Firefly was Maybe my 3rd favorite character from G.I. Joe (very underused also) of course Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes where the best characters how does one pick a favorite really.

imk2 - 08/27/07 06:26
heh...your truck is now "the grave of the fireflies", which is actually a really sad movie.

lizabeth - 08/26/07 23:50
Yeah, they still glow when they hit.

I have such a thing for fireflies. Can't explain it, but I want one of my next tattoos to be a firefly.

Did you know they're used in microbiology labs? There's this test you can run on urine that uses a compound harvested from fireflies to test patients' samples for the presence of bacterial ATP. You add the "firefly juice" to the pee, and put it in this machine, and if it glows, then the person's sick.

Fireflies rule.

jenks - 08/26/07 23:10
I didn't even know it was possible to hit a firefly.

i like your song.

how you BEEN, kookinator?

theecarey - 08/26/07 22:56
I never hit a firefly in my life until recently. I was amazed at how their splattered bodies continue to glow across my windshield well after impact. gross and cool.