What a tasty soda!

Mmmm! I'm drinking a bottle of "Orange 'N Cream Diet Stewart's" soda as I'm typing tonight's blog entry and let me tell you this: This is one tasty treat! Imagine if someone took baby aspirin and crushed it up and carbonated it! That's what this tastes like and it's delicious! I'd recommend it to you if you are trying to lose weight but want a quick treat. Only ten calories!

I had my bike fixed today. After only a month, it wouldn't shift into the lowest 8 gears, which didn't seem good to me. I ran it into Cole's Bicycle Shop in Carlisle and they got it up in the rack immediately. Turns out it was my own fault! I installed a mount to hold an air pump and the mount was in the way of the derailer. D'uh! My friend Rob and I both spent time looking at it last week and didn't even notice it. Oh well - they said that the cables needed tightening anyway because they had been all stretched out from riding. That happens to new bikes evidently which is why they recommend a 60-day check-up when you buy one. The folks at Coles have been great to me each time I have been in and I really enjoy their shop.

I found this great illustration on the web and wondered if you all had seen it. It's the secret of the old Pac-Man video game revealed for the first time. It's actually kind of clever:
I played a pretty fun new game tonight with my buddies Nate, TC, and Julie. It's called "Pandemic" and it's one of those new-fangled cooperative games that I enjoy so much. All the players actually work as a team to try to defeat the game itself. As is usually the case, it's really difficult and we lost two games, but it was very fun.

You may have missed the announcement from my earlier posts, but tomorrow is my Friday. Thanks to the holiday and my regular Friday off, I will be celebrating a four-day weekend. Very sweet! I'm hoping to not only celebrate Independence Day, but also make a lot of progress in my reading of the new 4th edition D&D books (nerdy, I know!) and get a couple good bike rides in.

Oh, and speaking of games, check out this cool little online game that I found today. It's pretty sweet, uses only the arrow keys, has scary music, and it will cause an extreme case of DISORIENTATION!!

That's it; I'm outta here. See you all tomorrow!!