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Here’s something kinda scary but exciting at the same time.  I say exciting because it’s the middle of the day and thinking back, I’d love to experience more.  But as soon as the sun goes down, I know that’ll change.

I first noticed weirdness at my brother’s house a couple weeks ago.  This was the night when Jenny and I had to go to Case Grande to get her battery from Walmart.  When we got back, we learned my brother had been locked out of his house after coming back from a trip on the airlines.  I ran over there with my spare key to his house.  Before we unlocked the house, he told me the reason he was locked out was because he never locks the top lock of the garage door and it was locked solid.  He ruled out that his wife could have done it and so I got my gun and ensured the house was in fact vacant. All other locks in the house were secure.  And nothing was touched.  Weird.

Then, the other night I’m going over to water his gecko and at this point they were on a trip to Kansas and had been gone for a couple days.  His garage door was wide open!!?  I told him about it and he was pissed!  He said it had happened before and I offered a solution that someone in the area had the same frequency.  But even that explanation doesn’t make sense because every night since the garage door has been closed.  Again, weird.

Then last night it happened.  Now I must preface this by saying that I always feel weird in there like someone is watching me.  But, it’s a new house and I have a great imagination.  So I push it out of my mind, I feed the gecko and water him and leave.  I’m at the top of the stairs at this point going down, I accidentally turn off all the lights.  So I quickly turn the upstairs hallway light on, giving me just enough light to get downstairs and out side.  Now I’m downstairs and I open the door allowing outside light in, just enough to let me see in the pitch dark house after I flip the light switch off to the upstairs hallway.  I ensured the entire houses’ lights were OFF.

I get in my truck, fire it up, and pull out.  After exiting the driveway I look up and that damn light was back on!  I was freaking out.  I parked the truck in the middle of the road, got out and peered through the window.  There aren’t blinds yet so I can clearly see in the upstairs window into the hallway.  It was the hallway light for sure.  At first I thought that I had left a light on somewhere else, or maybe one was just left on in another room… but no.  Even when I arrived the house was pitch black.  That sucker was OFF. So what turned it on?

I kinda wanna go back tonight and see if I can get into another adventure even though it’s small… it’s kind of a rush.

PODCAST EPISODE: Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 Hours 1-4

Aspartame Special

In a special on the dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame, Dr. Betty Martini was joined by a panel of experts throughout the evening. Aspartame, which she described as addictive, can cause a number of problems that people might not realize stem from its consumption, including headaches, dizziness, mood change, and joint pain. Its effects can be slow and subtle, but quite serious—sometimes leading to miscarriages and seizures, she said.

Consumer representative James Turner spoke about the history of aspartame and its pathway to approval. A public inquiry held in 1980 ruled it shouldn’t be marketed because of its association with brain tumors, but Donald Rumsfeld (who served as head of the pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle at the time) managed to engineer its approval, he recounted.

Stephen Fox, a consumer advocate, discussed efforts to get aspartame rescinded from the market, and suggested a new FDA commissioner was needed to carry this through. He recommended the documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poison World (available on Google Video).

Psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Walton noted that aspartame is paradoxically associated with obesity, as it increases appetite and cravings for carbohydrates. When interviewed for a 60 Minutes story in 1996 (view here) he pointed out studies which touted its safety were all funded by the industry and independent studies all found problems.

Dr. H.J. Roberts, the author of Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic said the negative effects of the sweetener can be cumulative, especially when combined with other toxins such as fluoride. Martini recommended natural sugar alternatives such as Just Like Sugar and stevia (in its pure form).

Websites
www.mpwhi.com
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
www.citizens.org
www.sunsentpress.com

Everyone with long hair knows that we lose an insane amount of hair. So, I was putting away laundry the other day and there were small ‘hairballs’ that end up mixed in with the clean clothes. I was folding laundry and placed a couple of them on the bed and Jeramiah decided to come in and start commenting on how much hair I lose. I turned away to put some clothes in a drawer and heard him open up the nightstand and close it again. I asked him. “did you just put that hair in the drawer?“ He just started laughing! WHY would he think that’s an acceptable thing to do? What have I gotten myself into? Hahaha WOW