Just wanted to say that I just killed off my inbox on spamcop. If anyone had any dire mail they needed from me, it is gone.

I was tired of the Anti oxidant Acai spam that was actually coming from Poland. I am sure it was legitimate, and not virus, worm infested. I know for a fact ALL the Acai in the world is processed in Warsaw then smuggled back to South America.

So a testimonial to the power of spamcop’s filter, they do exactly what you tell them to do. Even if it was an accident.

I like the random leads the internet offers. In the few minutes I have before I need to run off and do horrible, horrible things, I found a pretty damn amazing little piece of art on Jonathan Coulton’s site. Now many may have heard or seen it. I am the first to admit I cant keep up with this crazy series of “TUBES” called the intraweb. But this is some pretty great stuff. As Mr Coulton put it:

This is the work of Kutiman (via Open Up), an Israeli musician who creates really great music using bits and pieces of lots of YouTube videos. He’s got a whole album’s worth of material online at thru-you.com. He has also broken my skull open with the ball-peen hammer of his awesomeness. Here’s the opening track, “The Mother of All Funk Chords.” So amazing, so illegal. What are we going to do with you, future?

And of course anyone who even knows what a ball-peen hammer is…I listen to.

Of course we will see how long it lasts because it does have some…wrongness to it.

And speaking of wrongness, who else but the Rooster Teeth Crew, creator of Red vs Blue, to make the big step from Machinima to Real Life. They have a new series out called:

CAPTAIN DYNAMIC

Staring pretty much all the Rooster Teeth folks are there but also Ed Robertson from Bare Naked Ladies (those crazy Canadians)

Oh well enjoy, got to run and do…

peace and dynamic grease

-GG

So I feel HAPPY. Not the leaping around, roflmao type. Just Happy.

I have never been much of a believer in it but Seasonal Affective Disorder seems to be a big player for me lately. I even like the easy to remember three letter abreviation (TLA) for the thing is SAD.

The Mayo Clinic defines Seasonal Affective Disorder as:

With seasonal affective disorder, fall’s short days and long nights may trigger feelings of depression, lethargy, fatigue and other problems. Don’t brush this off as simply a case of the "winter blues" that you have to tough out on your own.

Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression, and it can severely impair your daily life. That said, treatment — which may include light box therapy — can help you successfully manage seasonal affective disorder. You don’t have to dread the dawning of each fall or winter.

Symptoms include (Winter depression):

• Depression
• Hopelessness
• Anxiety
• Loss of energy
• Social withdrawal
• Oversleeping
• Loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed
• Appetite changes, especially a craving for foods high in carbohydrates
• Weight gain
• Difficulty concentrating and processing information

OK if we change Oversleeping with "Hibernation" I would say that is spot on. Two years ago I didn’t feel to bad but this last winter has been bad. Could it have been the busted back? Maybe. Could it be I spend chunks of time buried in the basements of buildings ? Maybe. To think that WAY back when I almost got roped into sitting in a silo in Nebraska somewhere. Whoa. I can only thank my lack of respect for authority for that. But I degress. Most of the winter has felt like too much too fast with no time to stop, to breathe, to appreciate, to do anything. Not quite the "I am never getting out of bed" but I certainly didn’t want to spend any more time than I had to out there. Ah would this never end? Work was sucking, martial arts was sucking, even drinking was sucking, so its bad.

The beginning of last week was starting to feel like the same old heavy weight on the shoulders. But then Wednesday I did some Jodo practice and it felt good again. No stupid mistakes. Like the ones that say "Boy if that were a real sword there would be blood and an arm just laying there". Then got a call about the Anniversary of Gary Gygax passing away. So headed off to ‘church’ and had some Guinness and it was good. Talked about games and stupid stuff and it was good. Next morning proved my liver doesn’t process scotch as well as it used to because I still felt ‘good’.

Friday was another long day in the hole. But I came out thinking that it wasn’t so bad. Mostly because I was able to walk around wearing a tee shirt (I know that is a shocker) and feel good. And the weekend just got better. Except for the having sliced my thumb open helping my brother move, and then going to a Cub Scout Blue and Gold Dinner (which is like watching a nuclear reactor on the sub atomic level…just crap flying everywhere…) even sneaking back into work to clean up stuff, all seemed good. OK I really didnt want to go back to work but we must do what we must do.

Could all this positive-ivness(sp) be just because the days are longer? The days are warmer?

I seem to feel less rail road’d and that its just nice to feel that way. I WANT to ride my bike. and this week may be the week I get caught up at work.

Not that I am worrying about it but in looking up stuff on Seasonal Afflective Disorder…I found there is a Summer version of it. WHAT THE HELL? who could be upset that its warm and the days are long? Maybe its an Australian thing? Maybe a coriolis effect
But the list of symptoms for the summer one:

Spring and summer SAD (summer depression)
Symptoms of summer-onset seasonal affective disorder include:

• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Irritability
• Agitation
• Weight loss
• Poor appetite
• Increased sex drive

COME ON SUMMER!!!! WHAOOOOO!!!!