Richard & Misti's Blog

Random thoughts: MySpace has been down and then buggy over the last few days, apparently because of some heat-related power outages and poor data mirroring planning in Los Angeles. Lame.
I tried some sample packets of some new protein powders recently, Wellements Pro Blend 55, both the Alpine Vanilla and the Strawberry Twist flavors. [...]

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new B vitamin complex – Ultimate Nutrition Super Vitamin B-Complex
The Getaway Café
Budget Host Frontier Inn – Susanville

I heard a cool cover song lately (on the Coverville podcast) of Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur” by Sleepthief, off of their album, “The Dawn Seeker“. Check it out, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network:
Reunion – Susanville, Reno, Tahoe – add Tidd photosBrad/EmilieHeather at lakeRestaurantVideo clips – Brad JugglingCory & Traci HurrleNords/marci & donDinner w/ [...]

Here’s a list of B vitamins, with their associated names, for my own reference (since I tend to forget these easily). The ones crossed out are no longer considered “true” vitamins. All the B vitamins are water-soluble. The common (accepted) ones are in bold.

“B” Name
Real Name
Purported Purposes

Vitamin B-1
Thiamine
B-1 helps the cells convert [...]

In car news, we recently surpasses 82,000 miles on the odometer. In food news, I’ve recently tried the following tasty items:

ISS OhYeah!® Protein Bar (Peanut Butter & Strawberry flavor)
MuscleTech Meso-Tech Complete MRP bar (Peanut Butter Chocolate flavor)
Xyience Xenergy energy drink (Cran/Razz flavor)
Promax energy bar (Honey Peanut flavor)

I recently upgraded from IE 7 Beta 2 [...]

We spent the better part of two Saturdays ago having our septic tank (well, technically, it’s not a septic system because there is no leach field, but it’s a lift tank or holding tank) pumped because there is apparently a sewer pipe blockage down the street, and our lift pump has burned out because of [...]