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Thursday, October 13 2011

Gretchen went to the city again, leaving me alone with my vices. I'd come up with a plan to keep myself from becoming addicted to caffeine (thereby allowing it to once more serve as a recreational drug): instead of drinking it every day, I would only drink it on special occasions, and I would space out every use of caffeine with a use of some other stimulant (pseudoephedrine being the most handy, although there are others, most of them illegal). An additional rule is that I must not take more than one form of stimulant per day. This afternoon I began this new program with my usual recreational dose of pseudoephedrine, which always has me craving an alcohol landing within an hour or two. Sometimes pseudoephedrine can be a great study aid and get me to launch into projects I've been procrastinating, but it didn't work that way. I found myself continuing my search of bittorrent sites for .iso files of Honda navigation DVDs. I also took a brief look at the thing I've been procrastinating, but it seemed overwhelming, so I kicked that can down the road. It felt better to watch the 1974 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is actually surprisingly promising for its first roadtrippy third, but seems ridiculous and implausible for the parts that try to be a horror film.
My 3/4 inch auger bit arrived today, and I used it to successfully finish drilling the hole through the White Pine north of the house. (I was actually able to automate some of the drilling by wrapping a bungie cord around the tree to apply forward pressure on the unattended drill.) This made it easy for me to attach a cable that I will ultimately attach to the base of a hickory tree about fifty feet further to the north.


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