Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Choking on water

This is something we all have done, or at least so I think, I only seem to remember myself doing it. Its embarassing. What kind of signal does it send out when you are drinking clean, cold water, just like everyone else around you and you start to choke. Well, I finally got the insight to see what the answer to that question is.

The people around you begin to think: "What is wrong with you? You don't know how to drink water? How stupid are you! Freak!"

While you are choking you think: "Am I going to live? I don't know how to drink water! The other people around me make it look so easy! Why is it so hard to drink this stuff? Maybe I should just stop drinking."

My question is why IS it so hard to drink water? Why must I choke on this substance? And how do you stop yourself from choking and clear your throat? Normally when you choke on food, you can drink some water to clear your throat, but you can't clear water with water.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

I haven't blogged in a while, so I figured just so you guys no I'm alive and not well, I'd blog now!
Last week, I learned a valuable life lesson. Because I learned it the hard way, I'll tell you about it so you can learn it the easy way. I learned that you should not jump over fences. Yes, so last week, I was playing basketball, and the area where the water fountain was inside a fence, and the gate to that was locked. I figured, hey, I could jump over it into that area. I jump over the first one just fine, the second one, I'm going good. I get the drink. Going back now, jumping over the first fence and my foot gets caught on the top. I pretty much entirely destroyed my knee as it like twisted aroudn when my foot was caught up there. Of course, I try to walk it off though, after walking around for a couple minutes, I decide "whatever, I'll jump the last fence to get out" and do that on one foot. Amazingly, throughout all of this, I never fell on the floor, I always landed fine on my right foot, but my left leg is now in a full leg brace to hold my knee straight and they want to do surgery on it. I'm stuck in the brace for 4 weeks and the full recovery is suppoesed to be 4 months. It sucks. Take it from me, don't jump fences, they can be dangerous.

On the other hand, being handicap has its advantages. At Universal you get to skip all the lines, and then at Sea World, in addition to that, you don't have to get off the rides when they are over. Of course, being concerned about how safe going on a bottomless rollercoaster with a knee that can't bend kinda makes up for it.

Anyways, moving on, life on computers has got a lot more boring lately. Nothing new, interesting, exciting, or something for me to rant about has happened. Its all more of the same old stuff that I've warned about for years. AOL dumping their privacy policy and having the "we'll post your private conversations on our wall and laugh at you as we publish them" policy proving my point that Jabber, an open standard for instant messenging, is important. People still are ignorant on what they refuse to try and so on (yes, thats an authentic link to Chris Terry's blog on mine, shocking). People still don't know how to spell. Nothing has changed on the online world. Gnome 2.10 was released, which includes Totem and Sound Juicer, but it doesn't seem too impressive, not much really new. I'm still sitting here waiting for Beagle, and since I'm on my laptop, NetworkManager, to stabilize. So what else? Seems like this was the least ranting I've done in a long time.