Cameron's Thoughts

The comments are now turned back on, though at this time you actually need to register an account on this site to use them. I hope to have guest comments working soon, but I need to get some anti-spam measures in place first. This also means that the account registration feature is now functioning on here. I've spent a lot of time getting this working lately, hopefully I will have some nicer customization features here for people who are logged in.

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, I've been very well since posting that. Today I decided that I've going to take an entire week off from drinking any Monster. This will help me financially as well as it will cut some sugar out of my diet. I also think it may be a contributer to the panic attacks I've been having. I'm mainly posting this on here to try and give me more motivation to stay on this.

I don't understand my mind anymore. It seems to have lost it's balance. Today for instance, I woke up hungover and confused. Not so much a mind issue rather than a physical issue as a result of drinking. After that went away, I actually felt very happy and confident. For no apparent reason, I felt better than I have in a while. Only a couple hours later, I'm experiencing a panic attack. I went through a phase where I was having those almost every other day. Then it stopped for a few months. I had one a couple weeks ago though. And then just now. It's odd that I'm swinging from extreme happiness to these panic attacks where everything seems terrible.
I think this panic attack may have been brought on by some abdominal pain I've been experiencing. Not being a doctor myself, I'm having trouble determining what the cause of this is. Unfortunately, it's on my right side near where my appendix is. But, it seems to be further right and a little higher than where most diagrams are showing the appendix. So, I somewhat fear it may be appendicitis. At the same time, this started when I started doing sit ups, which I hadn't done in years. So, it may just be a muscle issue. My reasearch seems to show that appendicitis goes from painful to severe within about 12 hours, and this has been painful for about a week now. So, I have no idea, but it's certainly not getting any better.

Today I have put in my two week notice to quit Corecomm. It's been three and a half years working here and I am so glad I can finally leave. The last six months, this company has gone to shit. They let all the engineers go that knew how the systems work, and theres a couple people left that don't really seem to have a clue. Major systems have been down for months. It's really bad. Lot's of customers jumping ship, I don't see the company lasting much longer.
So, on Sept 4th I'll be starting my new job at Liquid Web. I'm pretty excited about this. Plan to go have some drinks tonight to celebrate this.

I have disabled comments and trackbacks on the site for the time being. I will soon have them back up. I am in the process of implementing my own registration and user system, and the comments will be a part of that when they come live again. I'll still allow for guest comments to be posted, but I wanted the comment system to be seamless with the user logins that will soon work. The new user login system is going to be pretty cool. Setting changes will be able to follow across computers, you'll have lots of control over the site's appearance, such as turning off ads and turning off different sections.

I've been a fan of Monster Energy drink for some time now. It's helped me ween off of my 6-a-day Mountain Dew dependency that I had. I drink about one Monster a day and then water or Coke Zero now. It's helped me lose a few pounds. Plus, Monster has real sugar, so it's much better than that HFCS shit that is in Dew and every other pop out there.
But, a little over a month ago, I discovered a new flavor of Monster, M-80. It was love at first taste. It's probably the greatest beverage I have ever tasted. I just bought two at Quality Dairy since they have the 2 for $3 sale. I am so happy right now. If you love Monster, but have not tasted M-80 yet, you must track it down. Many stores don't have it yet, but it's becoming more and more common. I first saw it at Speedway, and it seems all Speedway's have it, so that's the place to start looking. It's the greatest tasting Monster, plus it's 80% juice, so it's got a healthy factor to it also.