Some good news is that I've been running an experiment of not eating any sugar this week (damn good time to start that). Accidentally, it turned into a week of healthier eating. Turned out, milky coffee without sugar isn't as terrible as I remember it if I glug it down quickly enough. Tea is okay, but it needs sugar to reach its true potential for me.

My dentist had some stern words with me last year, and I ended up giving up on sugars that didn't come from fruits.

Resetting my palate was a slow process. Not so much because it was slow to change, but because the floor kept dropping. Once a month or so I'd end up trying something I thought was too bitter in the past, discover it to be OK, slowly become accustomed to it, and then move on to the next bitterness threshold.

I never understood it when people would talk about the sweetness of milk, but a year on and I'm starting to.

Second, I'm failing in relationships left and right. Out of however-many "friends" I have in the social network, none will ever reach out. Oftentimes, I go quiet when I feel down. It's not the kind of relationships I want or need, and I have no idea what's wrong about it.

Web, or IRL?

The online social group I have where everyone is closest to being as (naturally? effortlessly?) in tune with each other as face-to-face relationships is a small chatgroup that started on irc back in 2001. And even then: you take those same people and plop them on Facebook, Twitter, or G+ and it stops being so. We'll rapidly switch into people pinging status updates at each other that get lost in the noise of hundreds of other people pinging their own updates into the wash.