Please excuse my extended absence. I took a couple days off from work and have been pretty much avoiding the computer. Now I am typing this from my home computer where every two seconds a pop up ad pops up in front of everything. These pop up ads say things like, "come check out my site, I think you'll enjoy it, wink wink" and "you too can have an extra large penis!" and "I have my webcam on right now and I'm naked" I don't know how my computer became a target for these pop ups, especially because I am using a pop up blocker.

Anyway, I went for lunch at a Mexican place yesterday where the food was delicious and extrordinarily spicy. I have a very high tolerance for spice because I eat Mexican food a lot. Therefore when my dining companion offered me to try some sort of hot pepper I casually picked up the small piece he had put on my plate and touched it to my tounge, not wanting to look like a wimp. Instantly my tounge felt like it was on fire. Needless to say, I did not attempt to try it after that. However, I forgot I had picked it up with my fingers and later I accidentally rubbed my eye which was then struck by burning hot pain. Today, even though I have showered twice and spent an hour in a pool since picking up the pepper, my thumb still hurts as though I burned it on an iron or something.

Last night I looked up different kinds of peppers in my Mexican cook book which advises to use gloves when preparing peppers and never ever touch your eyes afterwards. Why would anyone want to eat these things if they're so dangerous? I don't really understand. I do know that an episode of Fear Factor featured people having to eat the hottest peppers known to humanity. I can't even fathom that since I know the pepper from yesterday was not even close. And I swear, I don't watch Fear Factor. But I do know someone who admitted he would rather eat a live worm sausage than an onion.  ¶ 4:03 PM