Okay I have a real dilemma. My office is on the sixth floor of my building. I have to go wee wee. The toilets on my floor are out of order so I have to take the stairs to either 5 or 7.

Additional mass: I have never actually weighed pee to get an estimate of weight. Since pure water weighs 8.34 lbs/gallon and pee probably has a density of about 1.04 gm/cc (WAG on my part) and, based on the surprising quantity of pee that I see coming from me in airline toilets (it collects it before you flush), I am guessing that I am carrying an additional 3-4 lbs of fluid in me at the moment.

So I could walk down the stairs, go to the toilet and come back up the stairs weighing less making the "up" trip a little easier. If I go up the stairs to 7, I have to carry that additional weight.

OTOH, going by the premise that "uphill trains, downhill strains", I run a higher risk of a pulled tendon if I go down to 5 with that additional weight on me.

So. I don't really know what would be best.

Did I mention that I have to go REALLY badly? So quick advice would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Take the lift Pio.

Hope I wasn't too slow

Gotta think outside the box....

Too late...

mop and bucket to the 6th floor please

Wouldn't taking the lift technically be considered thinking INSIDE the box?

We aren't allowed to take the lift for only one floor. It is considered rude.

Over here it is considered lazy.

This would be a lot more fun if some other people were playing....

I played in a golf tournament this last weekend. I played with three people I had never met before - two men and one woman. We had four carts among us (as is practice here). Why is it that almost all men drive with their left leg hanging out the cart and women don't? I thought it was just me. Observation indicates otherwise. It's kind of like a dog hanging its head out the window when you are driving.

BTW, Tatertot really perked me up. I have had a great few days. No real anger issues. I have come up with a new way of looking at things. I have vacation coming soon. I finally got my illegal brewer's yeast smuggled in. I have beer percolating and will be ready this coming weekend. Can it get any better?

BTW, I'm on a brand new "all chicken" diet and I feel great. Atkins suggested high protein/low carbs. That got me thinking. I was watching One Million Years B.C.and noticed that none of the cave men were fat. Raquel Welch looked especially good. So I decided to watch Clan of the Cave Bear. No obese people! Darryl Hannah was pretty thin too. So I decided to watch Quest for Fire and - again - no overweight people! So I have been watching a lot of "cave man" movies lately to study metabolism and weight gain and the one constant is that you never see any overweight people! Cave men were never fat! We have the documentary evidence!

Okay so now I am asking myself what did cave men eat that I don't? Of course they ate dinosaurs. As we all know, dinosaurs evolved later into birds! How did cave men cook their food? No iron age yet so no pots and pans. That had to cook them over an open fire (after they discovered it which they finally did in Quest for Fire).

So logic dictates that the key to weight loss and being thin is eating nothing but poultry cooked over an open fire. So that is what I am doing now.

I sure wish we had a Kenny Rogers Roasters here...

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Home Brew. You beauty.

A guess on the golf cart observation. Because a golf cart has a tiny motor and can't be consider "cool" in any way men try to disassociate themselves from it by hanging out one leg. I'll try this one too; they don't want to feel confined in a "lady" type vehicle so they hang out of it to show they aren't really in favor of the vehicle but do see its use.

Hmmm.... That's a lot to think about.

I have to admit it is a little painful after 14 or 15 holes. It really makes no sense to do it.

So how is the pottery going? I gave up. Busted the belt on my drill press.

Bwhahahaha

The drive w/ their leg hanging out so as not to compress their bladder.

Actually there may be some truth to that. We used to have toilets all over the course but now that have started removing all the bushes. Safety mainly. People hit balls into them, went to look for the balls, got bitten by poisonous snakes, fell down and died. It was holding up play. It was decided by committee to try to get fewer people to die on the course so we could finish our rounds in under 4 hours.

LOL! Yes! The princess knows!!!!!

Hey, I heard this funny joke about a princess.....well, I thought it was funny. Considering my gay former-boss sent it to me, it was really funny - to me....I can't find it now.....will work on that. Maybe he can send it again....

Please save off-color jokes for Iville.

Just a quick update on the hamster situation. We had a long dry spell. We had one pair in a cage for months. One did nothing but sleep all day and the other was on the wheel 24/7. The hamster went from grey to white. I don't know if it has metabolism issues or what but it consumed more food than Lance Armstrong. Well it just ran and ran and ran on that wheel. Apperantly it didn't run fast enough because she came up preggers. We had to dropper feed the little babies because she abandoned them for her wheel. They were just a temporary inconvenience. Well we took papa out of the cage because he decided to eat two of his kids. When we tried to put him back, mama nearly killed him. I don't think she was upset about the babies - she just doesn't want to get pregnant again.