But, it's not exactly a stellar start to my resolutions for the year. I re resolve to post to my blog at least once a week. I think the biggest problem I have is that I'm not sure what to blog about. I mean it gets a little taxing trying to talk about yourself all the time. And I'm not really sure who reads this anyway. If you are reading this, give me a shout out and let me know if there is any particular subject that you are interested in. That would be a big help and thank you in advance.
So here's what has happened lately...
The Second Annual Ancestry.com DPS evening shift Hot Sauce Challenge of 2013 was an epic success!(Meaning I survived the burning sensation engulfing my entire mouth)
I'm thinking I need to explain. My shift supervisor is always coming up with interesting and sometimes crazy contests/activities to help keep our work environment enjoyable and give us all a bonding experience with our co-workers (Honestly, I think he just like to find exotic ways to torture us so he can point and laugh at us later).
This year's hot sauce pick was a bottle of special reserve Dave's Insanity Sauce. Each bottled of the private reserve is individually numbered and signed by Dave himself. Every year they formulate a special private reserve hot sauce with three times the heat of Dave's Insanity Sauce.
It is hand signed by Dave, numbered, vintage dated and laid to rest in a wooden coffin wrapped in caution tape. This hot sauce contains "Ghost pepper" which I believe is the hottest pepper on the scale. The rules are simple: Each challenger takes a cracker with a designated number of drops of hot sauce and places it hot sauce side down on their tongue,lets it sit for about 10 seconds and then chews and swallows said cracker. Whoever consumes the most hot sauce with least reaction becomes the reigning champ.
After hearing about the previous shifts champ I of course had to jump right in. Instead of just a few drops of this poison I filled my cracker with about a slightly bigger than a nickel drop and had at it. I'm proud to say that my reaction was almost nil. After several glasses of milk and ice cream sandwiches later the burning had ceased and I had almost gotten rid of the taste.(It doesn't taste pleasant). I was in the lead for my shift, until one of my co-workers, Josh, decided to give in to the needling from some of the others and give it a go. Of course he had to do a bigger drop than me. (I feel that I should mention that Josh is a former Marine whose been to Iraq and way tougher than me). Because I wasn't about to be outdone, I did another cracker.
This time I covered almost the entire surface of the cracker with sauce. Not exactly a good choice. My mouth was instantly on fire with an awful taste and all I could think about was making it stop. More milk, ice cream sandwiches and finally when I thought nothing was going to help ice cubes. After getting that under control I realized that I was shivering, visibly shivering, and couldn't get warm. Thankfully my co-workers are awesome and lent me some of their coats and I was able to get a normal body temp and get back to work. I believe I beat Josh...barely. We will both be receiving "Grow your own Ghost Pepper kits" as our prizes.
The hot sauce challenge is in no way endorsed by Ancestry.com. Participation is on a volunteer basis. No employees were harmed in the making of this contest.
It wasn't until about three hours later that someone said something funny that got me laughing and I had to high tail it to the restroom. But, I proved my mettle and actually feel proud of my somewhat silly acomplishment. Here's looking forward to next year!
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