Slurpee Report

Location: guelph (spit)
Flavours tested: mountain dew code red and 7 up.
Observations: code red was in good shape overall. 7up was a bit runny so I never really needed the spoon function of the spoon straw.
That is all.

Sent from my abacus.

Slurped report

Mississauga Derry road location.

As reported by Matt, strawberry limeade was potent an "pretty good". My cup featured orange in good form followed by coke in excellent form.

Sent from my abacus.

Slurpee Report

Location: Derry Rd, Mississauga
Flavours: Orange, Mountain Dew White Out, Coke.

Results: Tasty.  I feel ripped off by the new cup configuration of the 2nd largest cup size, but I'm not sure it's smaller or not.  Plus: It fits in most any cup holder now, Minus: Feels smaller and probably is...
still tasty.

Blog.

Biotics

Shame on yoghurt manufacturers for pushing probiotics. Every time I get sick,  the doctor prescribes antibiotics. It seems the yoghurt people want me to be sick. Pox on them.

I'm winning.

Someone tell Matt that this isn't a contest... but I single-handedly got him blogging again.... sucker.

Slurpee Report - November 30

Feeling sorry for myself after fighting off another cold, I got a slurpee last night to soothe my throat and soul.
Location: University/King in Waterloo



Coke and Cream Soda combined for a wonderful expression of slurpee goodness. Both were thick as should be expected in colder months. A-grade.

Also, I'm more current than Matt again.

More current than Matt

Just thought I'd post something to be more current than Matt. Blogging is so passe, so I changed my template and it's suddenly fresh.

Got a new cat named crouton. Nothing else to report.

Slurpee Report

London Rd Location, sarnia.

Coke and Dr Pepper have combined for a formidable taste pair today. Nice way to fight the heat and cool off after a round of golf.

Slurpee Conditions

This had been a fairly active slurpee season for me. Often I'll find conditions to be poorer in the summer months when the machines are over-worked, but this has not been the case. I've experienced good conditions at both west Guelph(spit) locations aswell as Kitchener and Waterloo (bridge st). Coke has been my favourite and cream soda has been in good shape too.

New in town flavour Pear Apple Nectarine has been an interesting addition, though, be warned that this will stain your skin yellow temporarilly. Tasty nonetheless.

Brisk Iced Tea flavour was sampled in Guelph and it was a huge dissappointment. Beware.

All in all, conditions have been grand, even on free slurpee day (July 11). Keep the good times rolling.

Here's some recipes and a comprehensive list of flavours found at 7-11 in Canada.

Slurpee Report

Location: Woodstock
Flavour: Coke
Analysis: coke was in fine form today. Good texture, flavour and consistency. A-grade

Slurpee Report

Location: Sarnia, London road
Time: high noon
Slurpees have been found to be difficult to consume when a brittle straw snaps in half and there are no other straws or spoons in reach. Good experience with Dr Pepper and Pepsi, not so good with the weak Mtn Dew. Perfect after-sledding bevvy though.
Merry New Year
- Dan

Freezing Rain in the Arctic

Weird, being up in Cochrane for our christmas festivities this week and having 3 days in a row with freezing rain. Sure am glad I got winter tires put on the jeep. It was nice having the kids sleep for the majority of our journey up as we left home at 4am and got here shortly after 2pm.
I managed to drive the whole stretch with the hardest part being right around dawn where I had a hard time staying awake. A quick stop for gas and the cold air woke me up.
Past new liskeard was all icy, one scary part was when a fuel truck had backed out of a driveway and couldn't get turned. I hit the brakes and slid for a good while before slowing down and getting control. Probably some of the crappiest weather I've driven in up north. Usually it's snow covered and too cold to get sloppy.

Time to do the trek again soon, and we're thinking of doing the whole stretch down to Narnia in a day. Yeehaw

my Love Hate relationship with Kijiji

So, this morning, I saw on my kijiji rss feed that someone had a starchoice/shaw direct PVR for $60. Great deal, so I respond. Don't hear anything til 5:00 at home, get a call, she wants to meet tonight. I wasn't able to meet until around 8pm, she was ok with that, gave me her cell number and the night rolled on. Faith got home from work so I could go and I called. Then texted and waited. Her Text reply was "I already met you, you're Dan, right?". I then called and found out she had recieved a call while at the mall and some guy named Dan showed up and bought it. She told me she got a call, he asked where she was and if she had it... then he met her and bought it.

I figure the most likely scenario is that someone else emailed and asked for her phone number, while she said she emailed other people and said it was sold. When the person called, she asked if it was Dan and they said "sure I am"...

or someone emailed and offered more money so she made up a lame story to not feel bad about not selling to me...

Either way, what a pain in the butt. Waste of my time and I was really excited for the great deal I was getting.

At least the Leafs decided to score some goals tonight.

Slurpee Conditions

For Wednesday Evening
Location: Guelph (spit) Speedsville Rd
Gatorade Gforce Blue and Coke were an admirable pair tonight. Sadly,
those 2 and Pepsi were the only one slushed to an acceptable level of
the 8. Pox on you 7-eleven for letting this gift you have just rot
under your own roof... pox.

Slurpee Conditions

Mississauga Derry Road location. Coke and mountain dew were worth the danger as I fought off a wasp and some fruit flies to get to the precious slurpee goodness. They kep trying to upsell me to more cookies or a hotdog aswell...

Courtesy

So, I tend to frequent many fast food joints, and have noticed a weird trend. At Wendy's and McDonalds if you ask for an extra sauce such as mac sauce or ketchup and vinegar, they act put out and give a handful of said sauce packets to you in a huff.

Tonight I wanted some big mac sauce for my burger so I went back and asked. I receive 4 pacets of the stuff... I love mac sauce, but what am I gonna do with 4 packets. Same with vinegar, Wendy's recently stopped putting it out with the other condiments. I asked for some vinegar, they gave me 5 packets. Maybe if I was cleaning a coffee maker, I'd need that much, but for fries, I usually don't use a full packet.

I find it strange that by wanting plastic bags, we are killing the environment and are now penalized for that at local grocery stores. But at fast food joints, they are practically throwing away good condiments. They should be penalized. Or something.

Well that's a drag...

I checked into the Leafs presale on preseason games and the ticket
prices are the same as regular season games. For an unobstructed view,
I'd have to pay $42 per seat to watch a mixed lineup of prospects and
regulars play against a similar mix of another team... brutal.

BASEBALL!

Yesterday Matt and I went to a good ol' fashioned Ball Game at the
Rogers SkyDome... Toronto vs NYY. I haven't been a fan of baseball for
a number of years now... mostly since the strike with a short fling
about 10 years ago.

At any rate, we had the second best nosebleed seats available, good
view. The Jay's pitcher was great to watch, with 12 strikeouts in his 5
innings of work. It was great to be part of the crowd clapping when he
had 2 strikes on a guy and he delivered K's. Add a bench clearing
social gathering in the infield, 2 ejections, a fan on the field tackled
by security and police and a couple dingers and you've got a pretty fun
evening.

BASEBALL!

Observation

I'm sitting here in acton eating lunch at subway when a black pickup truck pulls up and parks in the no parking zone. 15 feet away are about 6 empty parking spots. He rushes in, leaving an 8 year old by in the truck and proceeds to buy a sub, pay and leave... It really irritates me when people park in no parking zones to go into a store. I think that they must be so important that the simple parking rules don't apply and their time is so much more valuable than mine. Probably irrelevant was the fact that the truck had michigan plates, but that reflects poorly on some of my good friends from michigan... Then he pulled into one of those empty spots to turn around and leave... Who knows, this could be some royalty I've never heard of and I should be grateful to have experienced their presence... Who knows... Turd, park in a spot like everyone else.