Life, Code & Idiocy

It was really a beautiful Memorial Day. Around 12PM my friend Gina stopped by and we drove up to the ‘burbs where a mutual friend lives. Ed’s the kind of guy that would do anything for Chipotle, so we all hit the local joint and trashed ourselves with $7 burritos, pop, and chips and guac. Yummy.

We got back to Ed’s place and I remembered that when I was over there on Saturday I promised him I’d give Monster a shot. He’s an addict; I’m an interested follower, especially being a geek (plus it was Geek Pride Day). Mind you, I’ve never had an energy drink before. Ed and I also have severe ADHD. That’s a fun combination.

He was happy to tell me how it made him “more mellow”, which I could believe because he tends to not be a very wild person and I know he drinks 1-2 cans of the stuff every day. So I had a can of the orange flavor, Khaos. It took me about an hour to drink through it; I wasn’t that thirsty, and I had to get used to the flavor. Ed was pretty surprised it took me a full hour to get through it.

Though *extremely* sweet, it had only 34g of sugar in the whole 16oz can. WTF? There was a lot of fruit juice in there, and as much as I would doubt that anything actually natural would be in something like that, it seems to actually be there. Right alongside the ginseng and bat pee, but yeah, it’s there.

So, yeah. I never got any sort of energy buzz at all. By the time I finished driving Gina home (finding out the hard way that the exit we needed was northbound only, and thus going waaaaaay out of my way) I was extremely tired. Alert, yes, but physically weary.

Conclusion: I’m gonna stay away from energy drinks. Dunno if it’s ADHD or the high-octane brain syndrome or what, but they do just about the opposite of what they say on the tin for me. Plus, they’re… errm, pretty bad for you.

Oh yeah. After dinner I couldn’t make it any longer and crashed, to the point that I don’t even know how the lights in my bedroom got turned off. Here I am, writing this after suddenly awaking at 10:15PM.