Party on, Wayne!

Sunday between 6 – 10 PM CST if you can send any intelligent or trivial thoughts my way please do so. My team, “Party on, Wayne!” will be competing with about 55 others teams in the Kansas Trivia League. We made it though the semi-finals last Sunday.

The readers of YJKOBT seem to be an eclectic group and if we use our powers collectively to send knowledge to me then maybe just maybe “Party on, Wayne!” can win! Even if we don’t have super powers positive thoughts are always helpful.

Oh, yes every time our name is said my team and many others shout out, “Party on, Garth!” Even if we don’t win we are having a good time!

Inexperienced Coffee Snob

I’ve always thought I was just a foo-foo coffee drinker – like the high calorie ones you get from Starbucks. I’ve never been able to stand the coffee that comes from the “office” coffee pot and that is not just because I’ve smelled it burning. I had convinced myself it is because it is hard to have the fancy liquid creamers around – they usually need refrigeration and some of my offices that has been a slight challenge. I wonder how many inches I’ve added to the derriere making it the color of hot chocolate? Recent developments convinced me that I’m an inexperienced coffee snob.

At a Kansas City restaurant on Saturday I had Turkish coffee, and it was fabulous. I didn’t add sugar or anything to it. I could smell the coffee along with other spices. It tasted strong, rich, and the way I’ve always wanted coffee to taste.

The little sweet little grocery next to it sold their own Turkish coffee. Since I can’t get this fantastic drink where I live I’m thinking about getting all the supplies to do it at home and enjoy whenever I want. However, I will continue to avoid the office coffee pot at all costs and stick to my hot tea.

-Disaster Chick, Back-Up Coorespondent

The Diet Dr Pepper Challenge

Doc had talked a couple weeks ago about Diet Dr Pepper tasting as good as regular Dr Pepper, and this got me thinking about the Cola Wars back in the 80s.

I barely remember commercials of the Pepsi Challenge to see if people liked the taste of Pepsi over Coca-Cola which I will not refer to as Coke.

I was reading a book that talked about this and they had professional food taste testers comment. Pepsi is sweeter and if you take one sip you are going to like Pepsi over Coke. However, Coke remained the leader. Why? Well, most people are not just going to open up a can of soda-pop (this is my way of preventing the pop v. soda war) take one sip and walk away from it. We are going to drink the entire can. Most people don’t want that initial sweetness for their entire soda-pop drinking experience and hence go back to drinking Coke.

Now it looks like Dr Pepper is doing a little soda-pop war of their own by saying their unleaded is as good as the leaded. Diet Dr Pepper was the first diet soda-pop I actually enjoyed. Other diet drinks were too icky and regular was too sweet. If you are going to do the Dr Pepper challenge enjoy a can of each to make your decision. My advice would be to split in half and take the challenge with a friend. Have fun!

-Disaster Chick, Weekly Correspondent

A hiatus of sorts

Is anyone else busy as heck with work, the holidays, kids, and everything else? Yes I thought so. Everyone is busy, and so am I. Something has to give and I have decided to give the blogging a little rest.
No this blog isn't shutting down. It will still be here. I just can't promise that I will be posting on it daily for the time being. The great and insightful Disaster Chick will still be doing her weekly commentary on Tuesdays and I won't be totally gone. Whenever something reaches out to me and really needs posting I will post it. I will also of course be updating my Walk to 100 progress. (I am still outpacing the Bobcats)
So that's it... Maybe after we get through the holidays I will have more time and inspiration...

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 12/4/10

Yes it would!

Have a great Weekend!

-Doc

Make a Memory

What are the moments that stick out in your mind? Have they ever involved people you hardly knew? Would they care that moment has been implanted in your permanent memory?

I have been reminded of a conversation I had with three guys several years ago. While we share the same employer there is only one of them I have talked to since. I doubt if any of them remember me or what we talked about. They gave me a new perspective on something I was going to write off, and really gave me hope that good guys still exist. Today, one of them is burying his 33 year old wife. I won’t go to the services or otherwise contact him because we only had one conversation over dinner. While it is one moment that I will always remember, but I doubt it would register with him.

Life is short – even if you get to live to be one hundred years old. Everyone says it all occurred in a blink of an eye. I once read an article where actor John Leguizamo once said that with children “the days are long but the years are short.” Isn’t that how it is in our daily life? We go to work and can’t wait to get home only to begin the process again. All our days run together like the watercolor mess of an inexperienced artist.

We may never know the mark we actually made on Earth. We may never know how many lives we touched. We only have a few generations that we will actually be remembered unless we do something to make it into the history books. But history isn’t always made by world leaders, inventors, and activists. We touch people’s lives and transform small pieces of the world every day.

Get out and transform those moments into memories that way if you ever get Alzheimer’s you will have reflections of many great moments.

-Disaster Chick, Weekly Correspondent

Anyone want to buy an Ice Cream store?

Apparently there is one for sale...

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 11/27/10

Have a great weekend!

-Doc