The Dangers of Alcohol

Another good reason to stop drinking: At the end of a Hash I become very susceptible to volunteering to be the next hare.

Since the gym forced everyone to take their blood pressure every day, apparently to make sure no ones heart explodes while pumping iron, I have noticed that my blood pressure is quite low. Usually hovering around 103/45 or something like that. No wonder I can never get up in the morning. I know that all it takes is a little exercise to bring it up, and get me all spunky, but how can I do a little exorcize when I am under the evil control of lethargy caused by the low blood pressure in the first place? The perfect chicken and egg. I wonder if there is some kind of device that I can hook up to my body that can be controlled by the alarm clock to start my heart a-pumpin about five minutes before I want to get up. If my blood pressure could already be at a reasonable level when the alarm rings, perhaps I would have no trouble springing out of bed.

A friend from the US was almost going to be coming to Japan for work, but looks like he was canceled at the last minute. I cleared my whole schedule for that too. It's going to waste a valuable 5 minutes to write the old stuff back into my planner.

Tomorrow is art day again. Another two weeks gone and I havn't gone to the store to buy some paints or at least pastels... I am almost bored with the pencil drawing so I gotta move on.

I thought my burrito supplies I got from the Hash last night would last for at least three days... I grossly over-estimated. Oh-well, I will be back in the US in a few months where I can have Bell's beer and bean burritos every day for a week... I'll bring my own to the wedding reception in a brown paper bag if they don't have any already.

A reader was asking about sites that help create web-logs like this one. The Bastish Net is of course all my own creation, but I just came across Moveable Type that may be of interest to anyone who sees the value of keeping your daily thoughts online for anyone to see. It is probably a lot easier to use than mine, since it is actually a product and they have actual incentive to improve the back-end... but I don't know that it provides the flexibility that I enjoy being the server-administrator and web-master at my work. I can upload all those Hash photos and not worry about file size and bandwidth costs. I originally pointed the reader to Blogger.com, but we soon found that it doesn't allow you to put photos on the site, unless you have your own server space somewhere. That really shouldn't be so expensive anyway though, and I think that most ISPs give you free space as part of he package.