Category: drugs

5:50am, Friday

The sun is beginning to light up the east sky, and I’ve decided to drink the Starbucks Doubleshot as a preventative measure. I actually don’t feel tired, but once the sun has fully risen I’m sure I’ll begin to feel the effects of a sleepless night.

One of the cats, the little one, has a habit of sleeping with me at night. Apparently, she wasn’t the least bit disturbed by the fact that I was neither in bed nor sleeping tonight, and decided to lie down and sleep on me anyway. Cats are strange little creatures.

Anyway, the Doubleshot. I poured it into a highball glass because I’d never actually what it looks like before–only guzzled an entire can at once. It looks like chocolate milk. Again, no surprises from Starbucks here. Their coffee and mlik drink tastes like… wait for it… coffee and milk. Shocking, I know. It tastes exactly like last night’s Frappucino minus the chocolate and peppermint.

As an odd side note, Firefox’s spell check offers “hallucinogen” as an alternative for “frappucino.”

2:43am, Friday

Starting to yawn a bit, time to break out the Amp. It’s basically Mountain Dew with a stronger citrus aftertaste. It reminds me strongly of Surge, the discontinued energy soda from Coke. Did you know that there are weird subcultures of people obsessed with dead sodas? There was actually a “Save Surge” web site that’s now defunct. Apparently cans of New Coke apparently show up on eBay from time to time. Who has this much time on their hands?

So far tonight, I’ve managed to upgrade my MythTV DVR, reorganize the seasons of The IT Crowd, and add a bunch of metadata to my video collection. Which is to say, I’ve done essentially nothing but pointless busywork I find strangely satisfying.

My sleep patterns have gotten completely out of hand lately. I was on Pacific time for close to a week, then got back and immediately had to go on call for work–which meant that there was no getting to sleep before 4am. As such, my sleep schedule has gotten way off track. I ended sleeping until almost 2:00pm today.

To try to get back to a semi-normal schedule, I’m not sleeping tonight, and I’m going to try to get to sleep early tomorrow night.

I stopped at a gas station on my way home from work and picked up a variety of energy drinks.

Here’s the lineup:

I’m going to attempt to blog this as I go, and review each drink as I consume it. This won’t be even remotely scientific, and I’m not going even going to figure out how much caffeine each contains. I tend to become an incoherent wreck after I go 24 hours or more without sleep, so I expect I’ll be commenting on that as well. I may end up tape recording my comments towards the end, then transcribing them here later.

11:36pm, Thursday
So, here we go. This time of night is by no means “late” to me, since I don’t get off work until midnight usually anyway. However, I just ate a big meal, and I’m feeling a little sleepy. May as well get started now.

I believe I shall choose… the Amp. No, the Frappucino. The mint flavor would go better with the gum I was just chewing.

Unsurprisingly, it tastes like coffee with mint and chocolate. No shockers here. The flavors are a bit stronger than I care for, and overwhelm the coffee. The peppermint is a bit cloying and grainy–it tastes as though they simply pureed one of those red and white candies and dumped it in the bottle. That said, it’s still quite good.

One down, five to go. More updates as they come.