This, that, and the other.

[vakkotaur]

The local County Market had an item I was not expecting. In the chilled pop/lite-beer cooler there was Coca Cola. Big deal, right? This stuff was bottled in Mexico. Coca Cola.. made with real cane sugar, not corn sweetener. I bought a few bottles. Oh yeah, and in the proper *glass* bottles. There is just something so very right about Coke from glass bottles.

jmaynard brought a single tea-bag packet back from PenguiCon. "Licorice Spice" herbal tea. I tried this morning. Yummy. Quite sweet. Not overpoweringly licorice or anise, but enough to get noticed. So probably Jay'd like it almost as much as I like buttermilk: exactly not at all. There is, alas, a problem. I want more. And I'd never heard of Stash brand tea before. For my personal convenience, I'm putting this link here and noting that page 20 of the catalog is where to find the stuff.

I'm taking a bit of a break from digitizing stuff from tape. Decided to see about ripping a CD last night. Seems Grip was just waiting there, ready to be configured. Still need to get lame installed and working right to generate mp3s, but ogg will do nicely. Grip works rather well, now that it's configured. Put in a CD, it gets ripped after a lookup - or played if the lookup fails. Nice. I can see digitizing my entire collection rather easily.

Took another on-line quiz somewhere or other. Which 'The Princess Bride' character am I? Miracle Max, it says. I find that amusing. I'm not entirely sure why, but I do.

Am pondering taking half a day off on the 30th, so that arrival in Waterloo will be early on a Friday afternoon or evening instead of later. Maybe see some faire folks for supper. I wonder how far along Hwy 218 is now.

Comments

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

It was always a shame that when I was in the Carribean, all the Coke came from Miami :~(
Lucky, Canadian coke is bottled with cane sugar as well. Yumm!

[pharwarner.livejournal.com]

Mexican Coke is wonderful, the second best that I've tasted. I was also really surprised to find Fanta there, not just in the all the original flavours, but also in the proper ribbed bottles.

But the best Coke I've tried? Coke in Egypt! Now that had something else again over the Mexican variety. I've never drank so much coke in years as I did in those two countries. Egypt even had the old family size bottles, that was a treat.

And you're right, if it isn't in glass, it just isn't coke.