I drink quite a bit of caffeine, which poses a problem come Yom Kippur each year because of the 25-hour fast (food and drink). Every year I start ramping down the caffeine on Rosh Hashana (10 days earlier), try to reach zero caffeine the day before Yom Kippur, and soldier through. But I always get a caffeine headache anyway. Somebody once ( Read more... )

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I am profoundly disappointed, but not at all surprised, to find that this caffeine inhaler is not real. (Link from rani23.)

While getting a drink from the cooler this afternoon, I noticed that someone had posted on it a list of the amounts of caffeine in various drinks (and other substances; No-Doz was there for comparison). The list included four or five types of caffeinated water, and they're more caffeinated than I had thought. I'd like us to get some of that. ( Read more... )

More subject lines from the spam folder:
"airborne pontiff"
"inalienable abdomen"
"rabbi bacon"
"Reply to your post..." (ok, where'd that come from? Not LJ!)
Did the misguided lawmakers responsible for the "can spam ( Read more... )

We have free drinks at work. This is nice, but some people have been asking for a water cooler. (Currently we have a cooler stocked with pop and a little juice. Oh, and carbonated water, which I personally think tastes foul ( Read more... )

I think I'll try an experiment and see if I can keep it down to a liter or so a day. (I already know that I can't eliminate it entirely.)

BTW, no, I did not break the fast with Diet Coke. The first liter of liquid was water and OJ. Then I drank the Diet Coke. :-)

I've been tryng to gradually reduce caffeine intake for the last few days, with the goal of getting through Yom Kippur (25-hour complete fast) without a caffeine headache. Last year I had to take one Advil; I'm hoping to do better this year. I'm currently at the point of alternating units of caffeine with units of non-caffeine, so here it is ( Read more... )