Hookworm

An up and coming metal band, Swarm of the Lotus, recently featured a few of us Inferno types as non-fire window dressing for their video. see if you can spot me:
Hookworm

Root Canal

Say what you want about dentists, this guy rocked. We're gonnna save a tooth that I though was a loss and managed to do it without pain. Now I don't have to take 8 excedrin's a day to avoid those tooth headaches....:)

Of course, I did have Little Shop running through my head the whole time...

Google Rocks!

Gawd Damn I love google. I just casually browsed for a map of my spin space and got this got this

You my have to hit Hybrid and zoom in a bit, but you can actually make out the Bball courts where we spin.

No Mo Grumpy Bear

Several years ago, I discovered that my serotonin system wasn't as it should be and was fortunate enough to discover 5-htp very shortly afterwards. 3 pills a day allowed me to live like everyone else, and basically changed my life for the better.

Last year, about this time, I was doing some further investigation into serotonin production and learned that Tryptophan hydroxylase, the necessary component to convert tryptophan into 5-htp in the body, was controlled by the T3 enzyme produced in the thalamus. The necessary component for this production is Iodine.

So, I took a crapload of Iodine (some from natural sources, some from radiation pills) and phased out my intake of 5-htp until last May when I took none at all. My hopes in this would be to restart my natural serotonin production and not need the constant 5-htp intake.

Unfortunately, as of a couple of days ago, I realized that I had spiraled down into my more manic temperment from my days before 5-htp. I found myself taking it to avoid the spiral of depression, anger, and hunger that was my life before 35.

So, I'm back on medications (Ewww!), and those of you who've patiently put up with the Grumpy Bear will have my assurances that he's back in the cave again.

Ruby Racks

Okay, so, I've never deeply trusted the nutritional value of a cereal that was more than 50% marshmallows in the first place. And Lucky Charms has always walked that line between breakfast and nutritionless snack. But now they've introduced Chocolate Lucky Charms. Naturally, I had to try some, and despite the "Whole Wheat" sales blurb, I have to conclude that these are now fully Scooby Snacks.

Still shocking!!!!

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Lobsterfest

So, this was generally "the ususal" kind of gig. Scheduled for 2 days, cut back to one. Promised a 16x16 stage, got a 12x12' stage. They wanted two big shows, which we prepped (even choreographed a whole story and all). Then when we walked in (with a smaller stage) they asked use to do three small shows. Eventually, because of timing issues, we got bumped back to two. Ya know... the usual.

Da boss man, he no likey the chorographed piece. In our defence we had plotted it out to a larger stage and were shorted on time. But our tribal show really blew people's minds. THAT show earned us a headline spot next year, a larger stage, and all the days we can play. Plus, he wants to do a recompression event, and a fire arts festival/competition. This show was totally worth it.