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There’s something I need to know and it’s an emergency. Does the required daily consumption of coffee/caffeine increase with body weight? I haven’t weighed myself recently, but I think I may have packed away a few pounds since I started working out at the Y. Suddenly, and most unwelcomely, I’ve noticed diminishing returns from a cup of brown gold. If I have to explain this any further then…
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Repost: Once more into the well, dear friends

This is a repost from September 20th, 2004. The average daily traffic back then was REALLY low. So, from time to time I’m going to bring another back out, now that readership has moved beyond a bored medical student with relatively close family ties. – – – This weekend I told to someone caffeine was a recent vice. It was subsequently suggested my recent obsession with…
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Lead us not into temptation

I could take this title in a lot of different directions, but I don’t think you saw this one coming. Or maybe you did. My readers tend to be the thoughtful type. Don’t you dare laugh. The good, church going folks among you might think I’m talking about sin, but I’m not… not in the Biblical sense anyway. No, my transgressions only hurt one person: myself. I’ve…
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Mid-morning man

I’ve probably written this post before, but I don’t care. My editor is on vacation this week, so this one’s going straight out – repost, new ground, correct spelling, good English, or not. The spell checker on my phone… is unreliable. I was going to use another word, one of a few colorful choices rhyming with duck, but I’m feeling polite. I pride myself on…
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