OMG, I'm linking an outside source!
I can't remember the last time I posted something in response to something I've read from another site.

For some reason or another, I found myself on my boy Greg Lohman's site, and there I learned of some beer mistruths. Two of them in particular caught my attention:

Myth #6: Beer should be served ice-cold for best flavor

This is an unfortunate myth perpetuated by the major commercial breweries - especially for their lite beers. The fact is, flavor typically diminishes when beer is served ice-cold. It may make for a thirst-quenching, refreshing beverage, but often bears little resemblance to traditional beer. Several beers are, in fact, best served much closer to room temperature or slightly cool and are considered undrinkable when icy cold - such as Guinness and many of the traditional English ales.

Wow, you mean all of those Coors Light commercials I had to deal with during Patriots games are all for naught? The fancy label tells you when not to drink it? Not that I would, anyway.

Myth #8: "Beer before liquor, never sicker - liquor before beer, in the clear"

This is common drinking advice shared but not scientifically true. In reality, alcohol is alcohol, and the overall quantity you imbibe will determine your resulting (in)sobriety or hangover. Drinking beer before drinking hard liquor may prolong the onset of inebriation. However, it won’t ultimately matter whether you drink beer first or last; it’s the quantity of alcohol that does the damage.

I still go by this to this day, though I guess it makes sense that the order drinks are consumed would not have a bearing as to whether I'll puke or not.

Fun fact: I've never been hung over. I've purged a number of times. :)

Wanna read the ten other myths debunked? Silly time

Jeff: where are you going
Me: VA Beach [...]
Me: woohoo
Me: wanna come with?
Jeff: fuck yea can we stop by brazil when were done???
Me: i don't have a passport, but who cares really... i say yes
Me: cheap whores there :D
Jeff: yea
Jeff: we dont need passports
Jeff: we can just swim there
Me: have the dolphins carry us to safety
Jeff: hahahah you and i should write a comedy about us going to brazil
Jeff: of course tom berenger will play me
Me: nice
Jeff: and i think charleton heston could play you
Jeff: [GI Joe Cartoon Movie Opening].
Me: only from his planet of the ape days: [View Image]
Jeff: ohhhh yes!!!
Me: haha the GI Joes have laser beam guns and the chick has to throw spears instead cuz she's a woman
Jeff: mwahahaha
Jeff: best movie ever
Me: 2nd only to "Jerome and Jeff Go To Brazil."
Jeff: on 2 hot dolphins
Me: giggity
Jeff: but we had to stick ouw wangs in the blow holes so we didnt slip off
Me: hahaha

2 months down, 10 more to go.
I don't really have anything to report, but I'm bored as hell, so I figure I might as well type for a little bit in a feeble attempt to pass the time.

I've been living with Brown for the past two months, and it's gotten a lot better since I last bitched about it. The hammer had to come down a couple weeks ago when I couldn't deal with Gossamer from Looney Tunes is living in our tub and her leaving it like that when she was gone for a whole weekend. I had to shower at Mom's; I couldn't deal with it. And thus that's when I decided to let loose on her, and she changed her ways pretty quickly. Things actually get taken care of in a timely manner and shit isn't strewn about like a bomb went off anymore. I love it. I'm kind of a neat freak, and I refuse to be her maid.

While the home life has gotten better with her, the social life has not. Before moving in with her, a typical week outside of work with Brown involved us hitting the bar at least twice a week, taking advantage of happy hour deals, playing pool, and Guitar Hero. If the bar scene wasn't worth it, we'd booze it up in one of our apartments and play Cribbage and video games. Sometimes, we'd do something on Saturday afternoons as well. Now that I live with her, we haven't done shit. I think we've gone to the bar once, maybe twice. We own Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band 2, but we've only played each once together. The PS3 we split the costs of totally isn't getting used. I haven't played any cards with her, and my fancy cue stick is just sitting in the closet collecting dust.

When she's home, most of her time is spent in her room with the door closed. We don't cross paths too often. Not that I really care, but I have no idea if she's sleeping or whatever, so I feel I gotta pretend I'm at the library in my own house. In a sense, that's worse than living by myself. At least by myself I can crank shit up and piss off the neighbors.

So yeah. I'm bored. It makes it hard to pass the winter when I'm pretty much in solitude.

At least I have Virginia to look forward to soon. I need to get out and do stuff. I have no idea what to do.
With social networking sites being all of the rage, I'm wondering if there's a point in even running this weblog. I don't get any hits here, though that's somewhat intentional. I don't really want people knowing of this site. If I something (or someone) to bitch about, I find it most therapeutic to do it here than through some MySpace post.

I'm also running into problems with photos. I can upload them here, but I watermark most of them. But since I don't like to advertise the existence of this site, I then have to create a second set of pictures that I then upload on MySpace or Facebook.

But there I also run into problems, as I don't want to upload the same shit two or three times. I can't simply call it quits on either of those sites. I have friends and family exclusive to one or the other. If I want to reach everyone with minimal effort, I should just upload everything here and redirect traffic to this weblog. But I don't like people knowing this site exists.

I started off on MySpace, but that's so 2007. Now, everyone is all about Facebook. Who's to say that two years from now, some other site will be where everyone networks? Is it pointless to store photos and whatnot exclusively on any social networking site knowing this could be the case?

Conundrum, indeed.

Social networking sites do have the advantage where I can just write a one-sentence blurb and be done with it. Here, I feel I have to write a little more than that. I also feel that I've been slacking pretty badly with the weblog posts... I'm more likely to keep my status up to date on Facebook than here.

So I really don't know what the hell to do.

I"m not looking to obliterate this site; I often reference older posts. But maybe I'll have to archive this drivel and set up maxjerome.net as something else. What exactly, I have no idea.