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It's been starting to look to me that it's probably not having the effect I was hoping for by leaving my cam on when I work. It's really tough to say, but it seems like rather than having the effect of being the guy who's always there by having my name make a presence that it's having the opposite effect and I'm being the guy who's never there.

So I might just go back to only chatting when I get home from work. That, after all is how I did it for about the past 10 years. I didn't use to come in at work, that's only during the past say 6 - 9 months. It used to be that I'd only come into chat after work before I konked out. See, I used to ride my bike to work, 35 miles each way. My average speed was around 15mph so it was like a two n a half hour ride each way of strenuous activity. Five nonstop no-rest hours per day of high heartrate activity requires insane amounts of calories.

Trouble is, though, is that you never know exactly how many calories you're gonna end up burning. How many calories you burn depends not just on the exercise you do, but also how well you digest the food. How well you digest food depends on how hydrated you are.

When you're exercising like that, how hydrated you are depends not only on what and how much you drink, but more than anything, it depends on the humidity of the air. With each breath you can breathe out about 1/4 drop of water. Multiply that times 50,000 (asuming you breath in and out in just under 2 seconds for 24hrs a day) and that's a lot of water. On really humid days it's significantly less.

Plus of course you have different wind conditions that have the greatest impact on caloric needs, as well as a significant impact on hydration since more wind means more sweat dried plus more blown off before it's dried.

Then, of course, you have the different caloric values in each meal. Even the same type of food prepared at a different restaurant will have different amounts of calories. It was cheaper for me to eat out than to make the food myself (in my paycheck, the first hours to go are my overtime. if I'm paid $15hr, my double time is $30hr. If it takes me an hour to cook and eat my meal, times two that's $60 per day that it costs me. Times 6 days a week and you're lookin at just under $400 per week. I'd much rather go with the $8 meal.)

There's tons of other variables as well and they all add up to make for a super inconsistent and unpredictable energy level by the time I got home. If I pooped out before I was home it not only costed me time and therefor money, it was utter hell. So more often than not I'd overdo it just a tad on my caloric intake. This meant that I'd be super amped for anywhere from an hour to 5hrs every night. Having just spent nearly 3hrs exercising that was the last thing on my mind so I'd just sit in a chat room typing a million characters per second while downing massive amounts of vodka.

Eventually the vodka would get the better of me and I'd have to fall over off of my chair. I'd set up my bedding beside my chair and just fall off onto it so I wouldn't have to walk or crawl anywhere. Fortunately I always sleep on the floor.