What Happened
Wow, I haven't woken up at 5:30 am in at least a year. Crazy stuff, rising before the sun. It just feels wrong. I got down to San Antonio, and got to see a number of interesting places, including The Alamo, not to be confused with the Alamo Dome (home of the Spurs). A note to San Antonio, having the two a few blocks from each other makes the already sucky parking signs just that much more confusing.
"The stars at night, are big and bright..." *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* Well, you get the idea. I actually did this once in the Alamo and it worked. A bunch of people inside clapped and sang the rest of the song. Unfortunately I didn't have time to do it today.
Lots of neat stuff, including the world's larges Bowie Knife collection. If I am to understand things correctly, every person in the Alamo had at least two nine inch bowie knifes strapped to their body with which to skin carrots with. It gets a little crazy. They also had a bunch of giant orange fish that were created by breeding trout with carrots....or something.
After checking this out, I went across the street to the Guinness Book of World Records Museum and paid the absurd amount of $15 to enter. They had 3 different places that you could go, the GBWRM, a haunted house, and the Bowie Family Fun Ride. For another $3 I could have gone to one of those too, but the sales guy didn't seem to get the fact that I had no interest in attending either of those. He didn't unlock the gate thing and I ended up banging my crotch when I hit it, which I'm pretty sure he did on purpose. Dork.
The single most interesting thing in the place was in the entry way (free to see) was a life size model of the man with the largest hands, who was also incredibly tall. Big hands. I wonder why I didn't take a picture until inside. Eh, oh well.
This rabbit's ears were an incredibly 29 inches long and 7 inches wide. Like due, no doubt, to it's unusually high carrot intake. I have decided to monitor my ear size, just in case. This does bring up an interesting question though. Because rabbits are covered in fur you can't see their skin. So if you shave one, would it be orange from eating carrots?
Here is a model of the world's fattest man next yours truly. That's what you get when you ask some stranger to take a picture for you. Ooooh, what amazing ground! You know, compared to a guy that weighs 1400 lbs, I'm pretty skinny. He also holds the record for the fastest weight loss ever, probably due to be stuck in a carrot cellar for six months.
So, I just had to put a picture of this thing. I don't know what it is, but I've always been fascinated by watching the coins roll around them. I really wish I had a pocketful of pennies because I totally would have let them go down it. Instead I had to blow a dime on a single measly spin. My only other coin was a quarter, which is way to valuable to send for a single spin. Well, dimes are useful too. I once unscrewed a nut off a wheel with an oversized tire iron by using a dime to fill the gap.
On the way home I nearly went from Orange Man to Dead Man. I was pretty tired and trying to do everything I could to make it the short distance the rest of the way into town without falling asleep. This is important when doing 80 mph in the fast lane. One minute I'm singing songs and snapping fingers, the next it feels like I am holding onto an electrical socket. I realize that I am swerving back onto the road, where I decide it is a good idea to get off the road soon. My body continued to tingle from the shock for another few minutes. I don't know what the electrical shot was, but I think it saved my life. Within a few minutes I was pulling into a grocery store to buy carrots and water. After about 10 minutes my fingers finally stopped tingling.
Eating Schedule
I was a bit groggy and tired when I woke up in the morning and I forgot to grab any carrots to eat, so it was about 5:00 pm before I finally got around to eating, shortly after almost dying. Almost dying makes you extra hungry. I didn't eat again until about 10:00 pm when I ate a raw carrot and drank two glasses of fresh carrot juice. I didn't actually wash the juicer before using it again so I may have gotten some fermented carrot juice from last night. There is no way I am doing research into what happens to carrot juice when it ferments.
Someone also gave me 3 loaves of incredibly delicious bread from Great Harvest, which I can't even taste right now. Seriously, is the world out to get me? This kind of stuff never happens to me when I am without dietary restrictions. I just want to eat my carrots in peace.
How I Felt
What, you want to know how I felt after not eating all day and having hours in the car just driving and thinking about how hungry I am? Hungry. That's it. Let me tell you, the Alamo doesn't sell carrots. Want to know how I know? I looked. I could buy beef jerky, peanuts, and other inedible foods, but no carrots. I feel fine now though, so don't worry about me. It's nice to know that my heart can handle the sudden injection of adrenaline into it.
Weight Measurement
235.6 lbs is the daily total. I wanted to say that I got an email from a guy that purports to have actually designed the chip that is used in most scales. He had lost of interesting things to say, and he confirmed what I have long suspected, namely that scales lie. Or at least that you don't want to use cheap bathroom scales to perform any sort of accurate measurements. That being said I will continue to use the decimal point because it makes me feel smrt.