I’m so glad I now know this. In fact, I don’t know how I ever lived without this information. Better yet, I’m glad to know that the USDA is spending their research money so wisely:

Have you ever suspected that there’s something about you that’s especially attractive to mosquitoes? Perhaps there is.

According to the Journal of Vector Ecology, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) did a study to find out what odors attracted mosquitoes:

Percentage of mosquitoes attracted to the smell of a human hand: 80
Percentage of mosquitoes attracted to the smell of a human foot (they used a sock that had been worn for three days): 66
Percentage of mosquitoes attracted to the smell of Limburger cheese: 6
Percentage of mosquitoes attracted to the smell of an air-conditioned room: 1

Now you too can live out the remainder of your lives with that knowledge. I’m only here to help.

Last night’s wedding pictures to come in a little bit. It was a fun wedding, but as you’ll notice in my stats, I had a lapse of judgement. That can happen when your drinking I guess. Back to square one. In the past, I wouldn’t have even counted last night’s slip or started my stats over again, but I’m hoping that if I start over and admit my slip, maybe I’ll be less likely to slip again. One can always hope.

Time Smoke-Free: 9 hours, 57 minutes and 8 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 4
Lifetime Saved: a bit
Money Saved: $1.76

Let it never be said about me and my family that we are hard people to amuse. No matter where we are, we can usually find something to do to keep ourselves occupied and entertained. Especially if we find ourselves waiting for something, like say at a fast food restaurant or ice cream shoppe.

Our normal game occurs at Carl’s Jr. At CJ, when you order your food, they give you a number on a plastic, two sided, v-shaped placard. You then sit down at a table and wait for your food, which is brought out to your table. We found that this plastic number thingy can be turned into a game by placing your fingers at the corners, pushing them down and rapidly letting go. By doing this the placard will spring up and maybe, if your lucky, land standing up. Everyone takes a turn and we keep going around until the food arrives. Whoever get the most successful “landings” wins.

Last night we found a new way to entertain ourselves. We went to DQ last night and all ordered blizzards. Now as some of you may know, the blizzard takes a long time to make, especially when there is five of them to make, leaving us with a good deal of time to kill. When we sat down at a table to wait, there were a couple of straws, still wrapped mind you, on the table. Michael unwrapped one of the straws and blew it across the table, and a new game was born. In this game, all five of us try to keep the straw from going off the table near our seat by only using the wind in our lungs. We did not keep score, but this might be a game that sticks with us, when we don’t have plastic numbers to flip around that is.

See, it doesn’t take a lot to have fun with your family, as long as you are easily amused. Tell me, what games do you play?

Current Stats:
Time Smoke-Free: 6 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes and 33 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 63
Lifetime Saved: 11 hours
Money Saved: $12.35

Whether you have an antivirus or not, please do me a favor and download this: W32.Mydoom@mm Removal Tool

My inbox is getting flooded with this virus. It wont do anything to my computer unless I run the attachment, but it is slowing down my mail server because each message has an attachment that my computer has to download to my inbox. Then it’s slowing down my computer because my antivirus has to check it to see if the message or attachment contains a virus. Then it has to stop everything to pop up a message and tell me there’s a virus in my email box.

I’m getting rougly 10 of these per hour right now, and it is very annoying. Especially when I haven’t checked my email for a couple of hours and the message box has to pop up for every virus in my inbox. I hit ok, another box pops up, I hit ok, another box pops up, repeat that about 20 times and anyone would be annoyed.

So please, for my sake, go download the removal tool and run it just to be sure you don’t have this virus. Thank you and have a nice day.
W32.Mydoom@mm Removal Tool

Current Stats:
Smoke-Free: 5 days, 7 hours, 28 minutes and 53 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 53
Lifetime Saved: 9 hours
Money Saved: $10.59

A young family lived in a house next door to a vacant lot, and one day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot. The young family’s 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers.

She hung around and eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her and let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a dollar.

The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested they take the dollar pay she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When they got to the bank, the teller asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age.

The little girl proudly replied, “I worked all last week with a crew building a house.”

“My goodness gracious,” said the teller, “and will you be working on the house again this week, too?”

The little girl replied, “I will if those useless bastards at Home Depot ever bring us the frigging drywall.”

Here we have the people who will be writing their local newspapers in 10 years to get these removed: Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds

How do you get rid of your stash without your parents knowing it was yours?? Do like everybody else and blame McDonalds: Girl finds smoked joint in her frozen yogurt

If you live in New York, Connecticut or New Jersey and use Cablevision for your internet connection here is your warning…stop swapping songs NOW:
Judge: RIAA can unmask file swappers

The streets must smell lovely at night: News – Oddly Enough – Skunk Gel Repels Drug Users, Prostitutes (AP)

Now this is a cool idea for kids playground equipment: Consumer Products

And I always thought renting a clown or mime for a party was strange: Rentapeasant

You’ve all seen by now I’m sure. JibJab’s parody of Bush & Kerry singing “This Land” has been everywhere. It’s been so popular that there’s been a few times JibJab had to take it off of their server due to so many people hitting it at once. Somebody has seen how popular it is, and has decided that they need to make money from it…so what have they done? You got it, slapped JibJab with a copyright infringement suit did they. Read more:

URL: Copyright Infringer

What will they (who are they anyway?) think of next. Noone tell my daughter about this or else we’ll be buying these for her potato bugs (roly-polies) that she keeps trying to make pets out of.
URL: Dead Bug Funeral Kit

Before going & getting that tattoo, read this:
URL: Lansing State Journal:Tales of the tattoo

I bet Coke didn’t think of this before starting their contest.
URL: Coke cans compromising national security

That’s all, have a good lunch, whatever’s left of it that is.

Current Stats:
Smoke-Free:3 days, 14 hours, 15 minutes and 18 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked:36
Lifetime Saved: 6 hours
Money Saved:$7.06

This weekend I cleaned my car. Not just the exterior mind you, but the interior as well. In doing so, I found a bunch of CD’s under a pile of dust that I didn’t even know I had in my car. Since I found a couple of really good ones that I haven’t listened to in awhile, I officially proclaim today as “Listen To That Old CD You Haven’t Listened To In Awhile Day” (old being a relative term in this instance meaning not new).

My selection? I’m taking you back all the way to 1995 for this one. That’s like a whole century ago wasn’t it?

So what are you dusting off and listening to today?

Current Stats:
Smoke-Free:3 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes and 12 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked:33
Lifetime Saved: 6 hours
Money Saved:$7.06

What is too much? Should the rules of Moderation be applied to starting a healthier lifestyle? As anyone who has read any of my posts this weekend knows, I have quit smoking. Along with that, I also started an exercise routine yesterday. I’m starting with 10 minutes on the Gazelle per morning, and I’ll work my way up from there. I am also decreasing my caffeine intake by lowering my coffee consumption to two cups per day (for now, eventually one) and lowering my soda consumption to one soda per day. Is it bad to try to do all of this at once?

Should I spread these things out and try to do one healthy thing for myself per week? Maybe, but I guess I got tired of feeling out of shape and unhealthy, physically, all at once. So why not start living healthy, in every way I can all at once. I still have the details of my diet to work out. Not that I’m going on a diet, but I do need to cut back on two things. My portions at dinner and snacking when I’m at home. Once that’s done, things should be good.

I apologize if all this sounds like incoherent rambling, but I am in the clasp of a nicotene fit and free writing, so there you go. Oh great, now I sound like the father from MBFGW. I’ll shut up now.

Current Stats:
Smoke-Free:2 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes and 41 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 23
Lifetime Saved: 4 hours

Money Saved: $5.29

It’s amazing how much time is added to the day when quitting smoking. Ok, I’m not sure if time is actually added on to the day, but it certainly seems like the days take longer to get through. I’ve been finding enough to do today to keep myself occupied at least.

I watched the Indians win, then I got my bathroom clean, all except for the shower. I will work on that after I put all of our clean clothes away. Then I want to vacuum our room. By the time Marcy get’s home from work, she won’t recognize the bedroom.

This is what I don’t understand about quitting smoking. Nicotene is a stimulant, yet whenever I quit smoking, I get all this energy. Energy that I have a hard time figuring out what to do with most of the time. Now, why would I have more energy now than when I am supplying my body with the stimulant that is nicotene? Anyone?

Whatever the reason, the energy is there, and it’s burning me up to go do something. I’ll leave you with my updated stats:

Smoke-Free: 1 day, 15 hours, 12 minutes and 58 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 16
Lifetime Saved: 2 hours
Money Saved: $3.53