Chaser....does it really work????

You have seen the commercials. A couple on the screen, the man is complaining of a headache and hangover and asking his wife how she is feeling so good even though she drank more than him. She tells him she took Chaser so she is just fine. I often wondered why she didn't give him some too, but that probably would cut into the effectiveness of the commercial. Maybe they met at the party and were waking up from a one-night-stand, I don't know. But another question I had after viewing this commercial was the obvious, 'Does Chaser actually work?'. So right before New Year's Eve I bought some at a local liquor store and anticipated some rigorous testing. Well, on New Year's I ended up staying at home, so didn't get a chance to try them out.
Fast forward to last week, I finally took the Chaser Challenge. I went to a local bar and brought in my Chasers. I informed the bartender I would be trying them out and she seemed to have told everyone in the bar by the end of the night. I read the instructions, they say take 2 with your first drink for every 3 hours of drinking or every 6 drinks. Okay, I pop two with my first beer, a 23 ounce beer. First thing, if you have trouble taking pills, these are not for you. These are some big, big pills. In fact, for a short time after taking them my throat was a bit sore. Anyway, I sat and I felt weird. Okay weird is not the right adjective, I felt very different. Like maybe I wasn't getting the beer, like it was being diverted in a way. Well, I kept drinking anyway, wondering what exactly what was happening to me. I finished the 23 ounce beverage and ordered another, I moved to the opposite side of the bar to get a better view of the game on TV and towards the end of that beer, another patron walked up to me asking me was I trying Chaser. I told him I was, and he offered to buy me a REAL DRINK, as he put it. I rarely turn down a free drink, so he got me a Jack and Coke and wished me good luck with the test. Well, to make a long story short, rumors of my test had gotten around the bar and people wanted to help science or something. By the end of the night I had a total of 2 beers, 1 Jack and coke, 4 Bacardi and Cokes, 2 Bull Blasters, and a Tuaca shot. I left the bar having not paid for most of that.
So I get home, not really feeling bad actually. I played some Uno on Xbox 360 and reflected on the night. First amazed so many people wanted to test the limits of Chaser at their own expense and secondly I remembered that I had an abnormal amount of gas at the bar. Maybe Chaser turns the alhocol into gas!!! Anyway, I had a couple of glasses of water and headed to bed expecting to feel like I normally feel after mixing things up like that, mainly headache and nausea. Fast forward to the morning, I woke up feeling fine. I actually woke up an hour earlier than normal. No headache, no nausea, not tired, felt fine. So yes Chaser did work as advertised. But...there are side effects that you should be aware of that seemingly every review I have read also reports. The next day the gas continued and you will have to make trips to the bathroom the next day. Not quite diareaa, but a touch of it atleast. So if you are in a position to be able to deal with that the next day, then I say go for it.
A question that I kept getting asked about is how does Chaser work? Well, hitting the website, everything makes sense now. Chaser is basically an absorbant that is Carbon/Charcoal based. The same stuff in your fish tanks that works as a filter, is working as a filter in your stomach. It collects all the toxins so they can't affect you as normal. So that would explain the time of effectiveness and number of drinks it supports. The trips to the bathroom the next day can also be explained that way. I guess that would rule out the possibility of Chaser becoming less and less effective as you use it also. I think I am going to need more testing to make sure this one time was not a fluke. The upcoming Texans game in the Fall seem like a good testing ground. Luckily there are plenty of 'Lil Blue Houses' are out there in case a trip to the toilet is in order!

Where I need to be...

2006 was a crazy year. I started the year in a friend's garage, among friends, drinking and drinking, listening to some CDs I made. I was living in a overpriced apartment that I really didn't like. I had just broken up with a girl who I ended up living with later in 2006. I was working, yet constantly broke and not really happy at all.

Throughout the year, I lived under 4 roofs. The apartment, living with a roommate that is clinically insane, living with an on-again off-again girlfriend, and now with two roommates. I learned alot and it has prepared me for 2007. On my own at the apartment I learned that I couldn't afford it in that high-priced place and I am getting too old for apartment living. I hated living so close to people, yet not even getting acknowledged that you are alive. That is just humbling. You can hear these peoeple's most intimate moments through the walls, but you don't even speak outside of a token 'hello' every now and then. With the psycho, I learned that some people are crazy though they are not in a straight jacket and foaming at the mouth. This person had every good intention, totally normal, but lived in a such a made-up world that she was constantly upset because the real world didn't live up to the one in her head. That rage just effected everything she did. I do wonder how her life will be long-term, she has to have a breakdown one day and I don't want to be around when she does.

Living with the ex, taught me that no matter how hard you try, you can't make people act the way you want. I just see her doing things with her kids that I see are wrong. Things she has a chance to do to better herself, but she doesn't. Very frustrating, especially when you can see the kids learning some very bad habits and not being taught life lessons at all. I had to get out of that situation ASAP. That only lasted like 2 months. I tried to make a difference, but was met with resistance from everyone involved.

Now I am living with 2 guys in a house and we have similiar backgrounds, we have a love for sports, we have a like for alcohol and are just 'guys'. We are pretty introverted so not much conflict, but we all fit well personality-wise. For the first time in about 10 months, I actually want to go home. I can actually sit and relax at home now. Living with the psycho and the ex, I was sitting in bars most nights to avoid going home. That just was sucking cash out of my wallet and not exactly healthy either. But now I actually feel secure, feel at home when I am at home. It really allows my mind to think about things I want to do since my homelife is not as stressful as it was last year. I feel like I am where I need to be.

Now, the deal is now that I am somewhat at peace I can seriously see myself not getting along with the friends I have met in the last few years. Alot of them are just 'sit at home and drink beer' friends. I can already see that in 2007 that is not going to be close to being stimulating to me. It already has started. Sitting around, drinking beer after beer just seems boring as hell now. I used to be cool with that, but it just seems to be just a waste of time now. Dayum I sound like a snob now, but that is how I feel right now.