Whatever

If twitchiness is the worst thing that happens to you in a day, I'd consider that a great day.

Imagine getting eaten by a dinosaur. I think that would suck more. I've seen it happen, man!

It's possible to be over-caffeinated?

Under-caffeinated I can believe, but over-caffeinated? Sorry, not buying it.

2 things.
1) There is always Redbull.

1) In order to reach light speed you must keep constant 1 gee acceleration for how long?

:)

Ugh, I feel you. I do that once in a while... Realizing you have just too much caffeine in your veins to actually do any work, fluttery, light headed... And you can't do anything about it but wait since you can't drink negative caffeine. (At least, not in most workplaces. I suppose a self-employed author might be able to find something appropriate if his wife let him...)

I always eat something when that happens. It helps.

For me, it's usually about the time I notice that I'm vibrating.

My inhaler will do it to me, too, if my stomach is empty. Eat something, it will help.

It most certainly is possible to be over caffeinated. When I overdose, I break out in a cold sweat, get nauseous, and the shakes. I can't drive safety, and sometimes, it triggers migraines. Not fun at all.

The tell-tale sign for me is that I start having mild/moderate anxiety over normal everyday b.s.

Too much caffeine.

The worst thing is, I'm trying to give up soda altogether, I was already on diet and decaff.

So I've been trying to drink ice tea instead. Well, the thing of it is, ice tea has WAY more caffeine.

It's a balancing act alright...

Rookie.

I'm finishing my second pot of coffee, and then I'll probably switch to Coke for a little while before finishing my day with a pot of tea.

You get used to the ringing in the ears after a while. I like to shut my eyes and imagine it's the screams of those who are trying to keep up with me.

Reminds me of the TV show Dinosaurs (because it seems to be that kind of day) when the Baby ate a whole bag of sugar. Zoom Zoomed around the room, flying by the screen, to crash in the corner and sit there vibrating. Comedy classics.

Hey John, can I simultaneously offer you 1) a way to soothe your twitching soul and 2) a shameless plug for my dad?

He's started posting his novel online:
www.hornes.org/john

If the shameless plug angle bothers you, feel free to delete the URL... I'll keep lurking on your blog even if you do.

My need for caffeine is a bottomless pit lately. Not that I wish for your problem ...

In order to reach light speed you must keep constant 1 gee acceleration for how long?

Ray, if an object has mass, you cannot accelerate to the speed of light in vacuum. The best you can do is (1) specify how close you want to get to the speed of light in vacuum, c, or (2) do your acceleration in a medium that is not vacuum, where the local speed of light is less than c. Of course, if you exceed the local speed of light, you'll get Cherenkov Radiation, which is the light equivalent of a sonic boom. It can be blue and it's very pretty -- as in the blue glow in swimming pool nuclear reactors. When the air glows visibly blue, you're pretty much dead, though.

Dr. Phil

Yeah I once crammed for a physics final all night and in order to be awake I took 2 Vivarin with a large iced cappucino. I got to my final and my hands were shaking. I don't know how I drove home afterwards but I do remember walking in and going face down into the couch. I've also done a quad shot mocha before in order to pull a double shift at work. I got the cold sweats and a little light headed but the big difference is how it affected my short term memory. I couldn't remember what I did 5 minutes prior, I had to go into robot mode and just work on a task by memory.

Jay:

Generally speaking, it's best to wait until I post a pimp entry to do, you know, pimping. I do post those on a regular basis, however (one or twice a month). I'll probably do one again in the next several days, in fact.

Why thanks you Dr Phil!
So John. Might I suggest go easy on the coffee. I would hate for you to blue shift. As Dr Phil stated. Its not healthy.

I remember a time in law school when I was studying for my labour law exam; I wanted to be a labour laywer and so getting an A was important.

As I was studying for the 100% final, I was drinking lots of coffee and listening to hardcore punk on my headphones. At one point, while listening to the Dead Kennedy's, I got rather homicidal. I swear there were a couple of labour arbitrators who made decisions that I so disagreed with that if they had been anywhere in the vicinity of my apartment, I would have killed them.

Never got the A. I did work as a labour lawyer for a bit.

Moral; it is possible to be overcaffienated.

Cheers
Andrew

To recover:

Lots of water (to avoid drinking more caffeinated beverages)
Move around some (DDR or actual outdoorsy stuff)
An anti-inflammatory (user's choice)

Yeah, it sucks.

To date, insomnia is the worst sensation I have ever had, but caffeine overdose comes a not-too-distant second.

[Insert standard dislaimer about full awareness of how lucky I've been.]

I guess you're not reading comments any more, since you said "stepping away and all," but I'll second all of Bookninja's suggestions, especially the lots of water. Not just as protection against more caffeine, but to, um, flush your system. Good luck.

For me, it's usually about the time I notice that I'm vibrating. - Angelle

I can't tell you how disappointed I am that 12 people let that pass...

Angelle, do you suddenly wake with your vib--

never mind.

We have one of these in the office.

So I bought some of this to go in it.

Despite being sold through Starbucks, the DeLonghi machines are really quite good. Add to the quality of beans I'm getting, and *damn* that's a tasty cuppa joe.

And also, free soda.

I get really jittery some days.

No such thing as too much caffeine. I'm on my 5th 20oz diet coke of the day and I'm ready to take a nap. Of course, the fact that i've spent the afternoon doing research on the Fair Credit Reporting Act may have something to do with my lethargy.

I'm pretty much a decaf girl these days, mainly because most of the time caffeine doesn't really wake me up. Not only do I stay tired, but I still experience a caffeine crash when it wears off. Totally sucks. Plus there have been times caffeine has caused my heart to go into not-serious, but most unpleasant, palpitations. Not fun.

However, the few times caffeine does wake me up? I go into total "hummingbird on speed mode." It's the caffeine combined with too much sugar (I LOVE mochas) that can, on rare occasions, cause me to bounce off the walls and talk close to the speed of light.

The worst moment of my day (which did cause a slight twitch) is the uneasy realization that as a 36-year-old man I’m unclear if it’s supposed to be called a “vanilla folder” or a “manila folder” or something else. You see, a straight “folder” could be many types of things, and may not be what I want. Whatever it’s called, I can’t find one. And I seem struck dumb; unable to communicate my needs to the surrounding world.

I've spent most of my life unable to drink caffiene due to dietary restrictions. It was really only in the past couple of years that I've gotten back into drinking coke and pepsi. As a result, I manage to over-dose on one energy drink or two or three sodas.

It's never a pleasant feeling.

I've never had enough to get twitchy, though. Usually I just get a horrible migrane and nausea.

I'm a coffee fan. And, I work for a coffee company. Between the two I've developed considerable tolerance for caffeine. That said, I'm not immune.

A few years back I spent an enjoyable Saturday in Chicago working with an eclectic mix of coffee pros and talented amateurs. The object of our attention: create a world-class espresso blend.

Blending coffee for espresso is tricky; there's a *lot* of trial and error, and lots and lots of tasting. We began 'round 9am, and finished around 4pm, 'cause -- despite merely *tasting*, and not downing every lovin' espresso that crossed our paths -- most of us just couldn't do it any more. My own palate was blown out, and I was literally *thrumming* like high voltage line.

Never had quite that sort of buzz before, or since. In no hurry to try to duplicate it, either.

P.S. The blend we arrived at is now one of the top-selling espresso coffees in North America. ;)

I've always been rather pleased to discover I'm overcaffeinated, as it gives me an excuse to have my first beer of the day (this is usually at around 1pm).

Nope. Have consumed two pots of coffee and two Mountain Dews today, still not "over-caffeinated," hands steady, steely-eyed, no vibration (damn!). Of course, my Navy training may be coming into play here. Got all kinds of stuff done too - weed-whacked the yard, rebuilt my Foredom flex tool in the shop, made two batches of raspberry jam and one batch of rosehip jelly, and taught my son how to make homemade egg noodles (as in chicken stew and noodles for dinner tonight, mmmmmm).

So I'm not buying into the myth of over-caffeination. Maybe John meant uber-caffeination? Mmmmmubercaffienation, nowmustgofindsomeelsetodoahhhhhcaffieneisgood...

“I teach you the uber-cafinated man. Tired Man is something that must be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"

Thus served Baristathustra

I once ate about a kilogram of chocolate covered coffee beans over the course of a day and an evening doing housework. I couldn't sleep, was in cold sweats by morning, and noon the following day found me in pretty rough shape, hovering outside a fast food restaurant literally chanting 'starch... starch...'.

Surely a disquieting experience for the poor girl who was opening.

Anyway: caffeine OD possible, but difficult to achieve. Don't eat coffee beans.

I have never cut back on my caffeine intake but I have adjusted my timing for a better night's sleep. Nothing but water or beer after 8:00 unless it's a weekend. I ALWAYS pop a can of Diet Coke first thing in the morning.

My dad and his family were/are hard core coffee abusers. I've seen them all brew up a fresh pot at 10:30 pm. It's gotta be a Norwegian thing.

There is such a thing as being too caffeinated.

Because my baseline is pretty damned energetic, I've had two jobs in a row where my co-workers have forbidden me any type of caffeine intake because just a single cappuccino makes me unbearably annoying in that I can't sit still and I talk incessantly and even faster than I do normally.

I believe the phrase, "If you don't shut up I'm going to throttle you" were involved.

On the bright side, a single iced is able to pick me up on those rare occasions when I become sleepy and unable to function.

I've had that happen. My hands were twitching so badly I couldn't keep them on the keyboard.

Grant, I've done that, too.

That was a scary day for myself and everyone around me.

Concentrated caffeine and sugar! Whee!!

Caffeine doesn't get me twitchy. It's aspartame that gets me speeding. That took a while to figure out.

I miss real Jolt, with real sugar.

MAO

Here's my gripe. So, having to pull all-nighters sucks, right? Because - and I say this without having any real idea whatsoever about the biological science that would make this statement true or false - I think caffeine metabolizes in my system somewhat slowly and belatedly.

It goes something like this:

I know I have to stay up all night, so I drink coffee and Coke. But it doesn't really help - I still feel painfully sleepy. Literally, it's painful. Or else it's the fuzzy-headed, squinty thing that means the same thing: "I could drop off like that." I can't think straight. I hit ALT-TAB and then I forget why I wanted to go there.

So I drink more caffeinated beverages. Double helpings of Irish breakfast tea. More coffee and Coke. And now I'm twitchy and agitated and irritable and yet I'm still sleepy and fuzzy-headed. Over-caffeinated but no more aware for it.

But I persevere. Dawn comes. Several hours past dawn come. The all-nighter turns into a two-dayer.

And then, around 2:00 or 4:00 PM, I finally finish my task. I submit the project for approval. I say "Hallelujah!" and I flop into bed.

And I find myself staring in wide-awake alertness at the ceiling, totally unable to fall asleep, not even sleepy. Ready to jump up and go do stuff, like you do.

Because only now has all that nasty IHOP coffee and Taylors of Harrogate Estate Assam yielded its desired effect.

Clearly I should start imbibing twelve hours earlier.