Thu 6 Sep 2007
3 Good Dots…
I feel good today… beautiful weather since several days ago. I’ve always liked spring the best, with birds and baseball now and summer ahead soon, but right now is Pat’s favorite time of the year. Weather is still warm, but nights are cooler and we can sleep without air conditioning. Pat hangs the bedsheets on the line after washing them, and the smell of line-dried sheets is another of the world’s great fragrances — that, and fresh-baked cinnamon buns, and new car smell…
* …Another reason I feel good — a sense of accomplishment after fixing another problem with the PC upstairs. It was mighty slow to boot up, and the reason was the CPU was running at 100% usage, 100% of the time. First, disconnected Ethernet and checked for malware: none found. No reason to suspect it, really, since everyone here stays away from the seamy side of the web, and just in case, we have multiple layers of defense. Google turned up a solution: Run MSCONFIG and stop things from loading at startup, then reboot. I did it, and sure enough, no more 100% CPU usage… the rest was easy…
* …At our house, phishing has never been a problem — receiving phishing emails has been… for some reason, in the past week or so, we’ve been sent 17 of them purporting to be from Banco di Roma, and no one here even speaks Italian…
* …and now, here’s a word from our alternate sponsor:
* …And oh, by the way, here’s the list of ingredients on a can of Coke I bought at Wegmans for Labor Day weekend:
It says “sucrose.” Not “high-fructose corn syrup.” What’s going on here? According to some articles, people are passionate for Coke made with sugar, so then is The Coca-Cola Company meeting that demand by going back to its classic Classic formula? Can’t tell for sure. At Wegmans, the 2-liter bottles and 12-packs of cans were made with sugar, while 6-packs of plastic 1/2 liter bottles and 7-ounce glass bottles were HFCS.
And me, I’ve been drinking soda made with alternative sweeteners for about a year and a half, but Coke with sugar tastes mighty good, as good as Dublin Dr Pepper and Boylan’s Cane Cola… does this mean I’m falling off the diet soda wagon? Well, here’s where I invoke the rule of “everything in moderation (including moderation)”… and I’ll talk to you later…
Coll said,
Thu 6 Sep 2007 at 14:08
I too love this time of year. The end of August is always a little sad.. saying goodbye to summer and all… but autumn.. my how I love it. If only winter did not follow so close on its heels.
Interesting stuff about the sugars in the coke. I will have to start reading my labels.
Cindy at Rosehaven Cottage said,
Thu 6 Sep 2007 at 17:44
Now I think I know why the Coke in Canada tastes different than in the U.S. You’ve solved a huge mystery for me and my hubby! ~~Cindy
David said,
Fri 7 Sep 2007 at 18:30
Not unless the rising price of corn is forcing Coke to switch back to sucrose from HFCS?