I use the caffeine because it doesn't alter my mental state any. We deal with zombies, so being drunk/high/impaired just isn't a good idea. I have more heavy duty drugs, but prefer not to take them. Yeah, there's Coke here. If there wasn't, I'd be a lot grumpier.
It might be. Part of me wonders if it's deliberate, if only because people who know each other show up in statistically improbable amounts. After you temporally from home, temporally here, or technologically?
We were both adopted. Our adoptive parents suck. Our mother's a journalist and our dad's a professor and we're ratings boosters. They're narcissists.
Sorry your mom sucks.
Random:
Careful with Roland. He's a relic. You might break his brain.