Just another day....

This has been a surprisingly cool August. Not in the snow is falling on my head but the lack of insanely hot and muggy days. This i am not complaining about; I have plenty of other things for that. Tonight it is going to cool rather rapidly and even get in the high 50's (crazy i know) and right now it is in the wonderfully cool mid 60's. That's good sleeping weather right there ^_^

The plan was to leave the windows open with a fan to help the circulation, then bury myself under a nice blanket and then sleep like a log. But that is not to happen, because some person (with close range) decided that mid-60's is cold enough to get the fireplace going!!!!!!!!!! now i don't really have bad sinuses, but it thick enough i am surprised my fire alarm didn't go off. So to keep from waking up with the worst headache I have had in years (and everything i own smelling like burn oak) i am going to have to close the windows and miss out on the great cool air :( this makes me sad inside :'( see the tear??

So i squared off with the hottest pepper in the world today. One of the techs at work decided to grow some Naga Jolokia peppers. A pepper so hot that is ground into a paste and smeared on fences to ward off wild elephants in Indian!!!! Now thats HOT!! So anywho, the first of the crop has come in and the tech was daring people to try and eat even the smallest of pieces. One guy reporting that he lost all feeling and ability to taste anything for an hour or so after being stupid enough to try this. So of course that means i need to try this.

Now, myself being smarter then the average bear, i did not try to consume any of this solidified capsaicin, whereas i cut a fresh edge on the pepper and rubbed off just a slight amount of the oil on my finger which then i licked off. My mouth burned and went numb for about 20 minutes. Those pepper are dangerous. I washed my finger in rubbing alcohol to get the oils off. i do not plan to repeat my foolishness.