Into the Void

Pretty much any psych med by itself will affect sex drive. I see folks taking a half a dozen of them, and then another med or two to counteract the side effects. The pdocs tell us that they DON’T because they don’t want us to quit taking them.

Perhaps we should refer to our meds as a “pharmaceutical chastity belt.”

Anything that tweaks your dopamine down is going to get rid of the emotional spark required to have something resembling a sex life. And anything that tweaks UP serotonin receptors does so at the expense of dopamine receptors. See this article, Notes on Anhedonia and SAD.

For men, there’s also the problem of peripheral blood flow - a strictly mechanical problem. Can’t get the old hydraulics to run, eh? Viagra and Cialis work by improving blood flow. Heck, coffee dilates the blood vessels too, and if you brew it at home it’s way cheaper than an ED pill. Diabetes is common cause of ED, so antipsychotics that affect blood sugar (most of the atypicals) might contribute to it.

Maybe the whole idea is to give us drugs that prevent us from breeding lots of little bipolars.

Senseo® - Gourmet Coffee Everytime Anytime™

Right before the holidays I broke my Senseo single-cup coffeemaker. It’s been utter hell. I even resorted to grinding beans in the blender with banana, vanilla, and soy milk…

In the course of looking for good deals on a new Senseo, I found the above website. You take the quiz, you share the Senseo with a couple of your other friends’ email addresses, and a couple of days later they send you an offer by email to get a new Senseo for $15 shipping and handling. You can’t beat that!

It arrived today, two days later. I’m amazed.

The coffee pods for the Senseo come in packs of 16 or 18 for $4 or $5 a pack. If you’re used to a 10-cup coffeemaker, 30¢ a cup sounds pretty pricey. However, if you drink that overpriced swill from the Coffee Nazis at St*rbuck’s you’ll save over $1 over a Tall latte. Use 2 coffee pods for espresso or a Grande, and you still save. Heh, I like my caffeine thick.

Why do they call their small coffee “Tall?”

When I got tired of the limited selection of coffee pods for the Senseo, I bought an Ecopad Refillable Coffee Filter from amazon.com. It saves me money and enables me to use whatever coffee I want. I’m rather partial to Cafe Bustelo. Anyway, I’ve tried other coffee pods for the Senseo and they don’t work well - I think they don’t allow enough pressure to build up in the Senseo.

The best part of getting a Senseo is you don’t have to learn a whole new language just to get a cup of coffee. Has anyone else noticed that if you don’t say your coffee order right, St*rbuck’s is sold out of your first choice in scones?

Ecopad, the Refillable Coffee Filter for the Senseo

I thought I was going to have to get another coffeemaker, because I’ve grown tired of the few brands that make pods for the [tag]Senseo[/tag] single-cup coffee system.

Here’s a refillable coffee pod. Now I can use whatever [tag]coffee[/tag] I want to make foamy single cups.