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Vincy is on business in China, and she won't be back for another week. It's odd having so much time to myself. At first it felt really liberating -- finally I can do all those things that I wanted to do but never found time to do! But that quickly gave way to, "I really miss her, and moreover she's not the reason stuff doesn't get done quickly." Actually, it's not even that things don't get done quickly; certain things that have never been done happen very quickly, and other things that just need to be done with regularity are postponed ad nauseam.

So it goes.

The first (and arguably the only) accomplishment I've had since Vincy left last Wednesday was that I finally broke the shrinkwrap on Batman: Arkham Asylum for the Xbox 360. I have a number of friends who spoke very highly of it, but I had managed to avoid playing it under the guise that the only time I really have to play the game is Vincy-time. Thanks to a few targeted conversations with friends, I realized that I was really just afraid of dealing with how my sedentary hobbies would land with Vincy. She always seems to be on the hunt for the next major outdoors activity.

Anyhow, since my girl is gone for 10 days, I decided now is also a good time to do the Master Cleanse that several of my friends completed recently. The meat of it (no pun intended) is just a fast while drinking lemonade with cayenne pepper in it, using either laxative teas or a sea salt water flush to expel impurities from the body. I'm on day 3 now, and I haven't had any solid food since October 8th around 8:30 PM.

My experience so far as been benign, and I understand that the worst of it is already behind me. Sometimes I go foggy headed (mostly at night). At other times I feel abnormally fatigued. I get occasional headaches. But all of it passes, and for the most part I feel normal. I sometimes have the accurate sensation that my stomach is empty, but hunger is effectively disrupted with a swig of the lemonade brew. I haven't found it difficult to keep the lemonade in reach at all times, and I haven't had an instance where my hunger won over the lemonade either. This is day three of ten, and I don't expect things to get any more difficult than they have been.

If that's the case, this will have been easy enough to do with a little discipline. Honestly, the hardest part is getting up in the morning and juicing lemons. The rest is straightforward. I can't say that I see why my friends were all insistent that I do it with someone else, but maybe that's coming in a couple of days.

The last major bit of news is that my Mazda 3 is back on the sale block after a friend who borrowed it for nearly a month decided yesterday that he couldn't really afford it. He did pay me handsomely for the use of the car, but now I've got an extra car to sell. I wonder if I could trade it to someone in exchange for doing hardwood floors throughout my house?