I Am the Reason My Mother Drinks

As you may have previously read, Cameron had a science project that we helped him to complete a couple of weeks ago. While the point was to further the knowledge base that Cameron will need to survive in the world, I found the behavioral observation to be quite entertaining.
It was the job of all of the adults that are in Cameron's regular life to help in this effort by getting drunk.

The entertainment factor came when Cameron tried to keep all of us on task as we became looser and looser. Because we were all supposed to monitor our own times to begin drinking, take our breathalizer tests and record our results, Cameron was left to make sure that everyone did just that.

At first, this was fairly simple. Cameron gave us our sheets to fill out after each time we took the breathalizer tests and we filled them out with gusto. Of course with more and more wine, this became more challenging and Cameron had to do more prompting to get the adults to comply. As some folks hold their liquor better than others, some required more prompting than others.

The first of the group to drop, was Cyndy (followed closely by James), however, before this could happen, she became very loquatious, as is her want. I guess it was time for her to blow into the meter, and Cameron was apparently having difficulty with focusing her on the task. From somwhere just to the side of me I could hear him becoming quite frustrated and turned around just in time to see him channel his inner Woody Allen and say to Cyndy, "Could you stop being drunk for just one minute and focus?!"

It would seem that Cameron was learning all kinds of things about intoxication that day.

Moral of the story- "Grasshopper, when you can hold back the ocean with a broom, you may leave", or "When your parents and their friends are getting drunk around you, give up and play Nintendo".

(This entry was started the day after Cameron's experiment. It was finished 6-24-07. No, it is not because of a very long hangover.)

Cameron's science project

Thanks to everyone who volunteered to be guinea pigs, Cameron's science project came together very nicely and was a smashing success. He still has some more work to do before its completed, but I've put up some pictures anyway.

His project was to study the effects of alcohol on a person based on his/her physical attributes. The experiment involved everyone drinking wine (thanks Neil) at a prescribed rate, and taking breathalyzer and field sobriety tests at certain intervals. Only two subjects did not reach the legal limit of drunkenness at 0.08% BAC.

From the data the we have, the only real contributing physical factor is weight. Gender is suppose to have a small effect, but our sampling is simply too small to determine that. The most interesting data that I think we gathered was how drunk a person really is at 0.08% BAC. All of us was surprised at how incapacitated you had to be to be considered legally drunk. I personally would not get behind the wheel at a BAC level of 0.03%.

It was a fun experiment, and I think we'll be taking the breathalyzer to every party from now on.

New Pictures

I've uploaded a few pictures that's been sitting on my camera from a while back. I also have a few from Halloween. Now all I have to do is wait until I can post to the flaky Blogger RPC. The picture and post for Cameron's science experiment will have to wait a bit, but those should be up pretty soon.