..... now your scaring me, becasue that is exactly how i am.....

I ordered that book I am curious what it has to say.  A lot of what you have said Chris describes situations I have. Several years ago I was diagnosed with ADD and put on Strattera.  I could focus a whole lot better while I was on it.  I stopped taking it though because it made me feel emotionless.  It's been a couple years I am still getting into the same ruts as I used to.   I have thought about taking it again, if they would prescribe it.  Not sure if I want to live with the side effects though.  Also the process to get the prescription took over 6 months.  hmm just some thoughts.

i ending up buying the book too. Ahaha wish i had med insurance! I checked with my school already, they do offer it, and it is the $1800 low i was quoted and does not cover any type of sleep therapy. Not that i'd have $1800 on hand anyway. I would find a place to work part time, but i dont have time for it. I'm already stretched out with my sleeping issues and the craptastical load of work I have to do + my only way of revealing stress is in training at the gym.

I was up late last night (again, not tired, 18+ hours of being awake should lead to some form of sleepiness) doing MATLAB  and hit the sack around 4am, i had to wake up at 730am to get to class. Yes it is 11am right now. I slept past my alarm (my alarm remains on for 1 full hour). Normally speaking, i'd wake up in a heart beat with a shotgun in one hand ready to kill and a sandwich in the other even with only 3 hours of sleep.

and how the hell can you guys on on drugs that kill emotion? Its a personal problem to feel alive 50% of the time and to have a drug completely kill any chance of that is too much of a side affect.

Quote from: JBubble on September 30, 2008, 01:00:34 PM
You're such a post whore He Man 


In all seriousness, thanks for posting this up.

I want to get in on this "Post Whore" action too

Quote from: He Man on October 02, 2008, 08:01:53 AMand how the hell can you guys on on drugs that kill emotion? Its a personal problem to feel alive 50% of the time and to have a drug completely kill any chance of that is too much of a side affect.

Every drug is different for every person ... and even for the same person different times. That's what makes it all fun ... nothing is ever a "given". The biggest thing I have to remember to do is maintain awareness and not forget myself while writing php/html/mysql code for 22 hours... yup, one day I actually went into work Friday at 11am and left Saturday around 2pm. I did a few hours of work and then got all absorbed into the coding.

Yeah, my list of things that are exactly how you are? That's about the first third... there's twice that much more I didn't bother to bring up. I usually creep people out when face to face and we get to talking about it. I have an amazing sense of recall ... and apparently I have been blessed to have lived a lot of life's ADD mistakes. :

Chris

Quote from: chris on October 02, 2008, 04:18:01 PM
Every drug is different for every person ... and even for the same person different times. That's what makes it all fun ... nothing is ever a "given". The biggest thing I have to remember to do is maintain awareness and not forget myself while writing php/html/mysql code for 22 hours... yup, one day I actually went into work Friday at 11am and left Saturday around 2pm. I did a few hours of work and then got all absorbed into the coding.

Yeah, my list of things that are exactly how you are? That's about the first third... there's twice that much more I didn't bother to bring up. I usually creep people out when face to face and we get to talking about it. I have an amazing sense of recall ... and apparently I have been blessed to have lived a lot of life's ADD mistakes. :

Chris

hahaha are those mistakes listed in the book. Im gonna need a pen or some kind of highlighter for this one. I just spent (quite litterly since im missed class this morning) 7 hours doing C++ and MATLAB and only now am i stoping to get food (there were times where i wandered of on to the DMF and ebay to look for parts :p)



Ownytony, its $5.00 for a trip around the block.   

How did you not run out of gas? I have completely run out before and couldn't put more than 3.2 gallons in...

no idea.

Mobil 87 Octane 10% Ethanol
Refilled at 98.7miles, light on at 98 miles
Refill Capcaity: 2.718
Roughly 50% highway


Mobil 87 Octane 10% Ethanol
Refilled at 114.8 miles, light on at 102.7miles
Refill capcaity: 3.406 gallons
Roughly 40% highway

That was the data for the previous fill up and the fill up that resulted in 3.406gals.
to be consistent, i always sit on the bike and fill up at around the same temp. (~70degrees). Ill fit up to the botton of the fill hole. rock my bike side to side and adjust till it hits that point. I havent done the math on how large the reserve from light on is yet. but it looks to be a good 1/2 gal.

Honestly, with that kinda mileage, the fill up is suspect.

Given the mileage you got on the previous tank, if you were getting the same mileage, you should have filled up with 3.18 gallons which sounds more reasonable.

My opinion? I wouldn't go back to that station any more, they are likely changing the calibration on the pumps. You're paying for more gas than you're getting....

Quote from: NAKID on October 04, 2008, 06:02:43 PM
Honestly, with that kinda mileage, the fill up is suspect.

Given the mileage you got on the previous tank, if you were getting the same mileage, you should have filled up with 3.18 gallons which sounds more reasonable.

My opinion? I wouldn't go back to that station any more, they are likely changing the calibration on the pumps. You're paying for more gas than you're getting....

What do you mean?

fill 1 was 36.3mpg
fill 2 was 33.7mpg

the difference between the two fill ups in terms of distance is 16.1miles. which in terms of a 34mpg avg, is .47 gallons. The difference between 3.406gal and 2.718gal is .688. which is close to .188 off from half a gallon.

the .188 difference is negligible based on my notes of 50% highway riding and 40% highway riding. that extra 10% makes a big difference when it was mostly idling and 1/2nd gear 5000-6000rpm city riding.

My mileage usually differs no more than about 1mpg regardless of 10% difference in highway mileage.

Also, the plastic tanks have been around since the 2005 MY and you are the first person I have heard that was able to put that much fuel in with no tank modifications.

I am not saying you are wrong, just that it's possible, given the high cost of gas, that the station has tampered with the machine...

hmm.. i see where you are going with this.

Personally speaking though, my bike varies from low 25-30mpg when doing city riding only, and my best highway mpg has been over 45mpg. the 10% im not doing on the highway means, im doing it on the city streets. And just to make sure everyone knows, its NYC, not like raleigh or something.

Im going to take your note into account and see if i can run it down to 3.406gals again, and at a different pump.

Wow, you are gettin pretty shittly mileage! I have yet to get less than 40MPG and I almost never do freeway. When I do exclusively freeway, I have gotten well into the 50's...

Quote from: NAKID on October 04, 2008, 07:00:08 PM
Wow, you are gettin pretty shittly mileage! I have yet to get less than 40MPG and I almost never do freeway. When I do exclusively freeway, I have gotten well into the 50's...

Man. wtf. Let me just try to explain how my ride goes. see if its similar to how your route goes.


Hop on the bike and i look up 1 ave and down 1 ave. deciding which traffic jammed lane i should take. I decide on the ghetto route with make the beast with two backsed up roads. more space for me. my top speed is 15mph. i ride for 4 miles in 1st gear, clutching it like a mad man. and revving my engine periodically to make sure im heard. from time to time, i get a break away and ill wheelie a short 30 feet. it takes about 20minutes for me to make this leg of the trip. Then i hop on the brooklyn bridge and now its smooth 25mph cruising, but somehow im a douche bag and i need to get ahead even though it would only save me 20 seconds at most.

jump on the FDR, maintain 70mph for 12miles and im done with this leg of the trip in another 15 mins (5 mins accounts for the it takes for me to get to hte school after i jump of the highway.

Now the way home.....3miles on the highway (henry hudson) then its the west side highway battle. its usually bumper to bumper to bumper. and im doing lots of reving, high beaming, and horn honking. its all local streets for about 10 miles until i hit the bridge. this part takes atleast 25-35minutes depending on how much god hates me that day. There are times where there are 3 trucks in front of me, an they are so jacke up that i cant lane split, so i just sit on my bike and litterly idle for about 3 whole minutes. Then over the bridge which is going about 3mph for 1 mile. then onto atlantic ave, which is a 1 mile long strip that takes me 5 minutes to cross. and then i have to speed at 60mph on a 30mph zone for 15 blocks so i dont get the studdering red lights (red, green, red, green) if i get caught on that, im make the beast with two backsed.

Total trip miles is ~31miles or something to that effect depending on how much i deviate from the route.

i just got my new valve guides (if they are even really in there) valve adjusted, and my semi-synthetic oil is only 2500miles old. new plugs. k&N open airbox and stock cored exhaust.

My 944carbed monster got 60+mpg.

Yeah, I think your fueling is off. There really is no reason, even with that make the beast with two backsed up commute, for your mileage ti be in the 20's....