"It was this monsterous energy that was used to ink the book"

 Actually, it wasn't, but I've got the title track from Twiztid's 2003 album, "The Green Book" as my current ear worm. It's either this or the theme songs to both "Welcome Back, Kotter" and "WKRP in Cincinatti" rotating in my head. I can't help it; I was listening to some compilation disc the other day and it was filled with all pre-1985 television show themes. Then "The Green Book" popped in my head and I'm like, "Well, three ring musical chair circus!". Haha. 

Outside of the tones in my head, we were shopping yesterday and went down the cola aisle. Apparently. it's still Passover. Kosher (yellow cap) Coke is still being hawked on the top shelf.

I took a close up of the sugar content, as regular Coca-Cola contains high fructose corn syrup, while the other contains cane sugar. The latter is also known as "Mexican Coke" (stop guttering) because (closer to the US) countries sell Coca-Cola with no corn syrup, but with cane or regular sugar. Notice the grams of sugar in all the photos though.. some things change, others don't. 

Also, the Diet and Zero Sugar versions still contain Aspartame, oddly enough. It makes wonder how "Kosher for Passover" the drink really is, but according to Dr. Google, as the (fake) sugar has molecular changes in processing, it's considered "generally kosher" (I guess "kosher adjacent"). So the ones abiding by strict laws won't go to hell while drinking their sody and shmearing their charoset on their matzah. 

While we were out, we went to a store that happened to masquerade as one of those bins stores that sell Amazon returns. We happened to hit it on a good enough day when the price was low, but the items were mainly holiday themed (Halloween and Christmas). It was strange, but I actually found something. 

I picked up two packages of a "Sloth Ice Cube Tray, 2.2" Large Silicone Mold for Cocktails" (the Amazon link is here because I left the sticker on one of the pictures). The store seemed to have a few of these in the bins.

I actually got eight made, since they froze up rather quickly. They're cute and I'm using four in my water cup for work. The other four went into a water cup for the gym. They're pretty solid when they're done.

The pictures don't do them justice, but I think it's also the water I'm using. Someone once said, depending on how you filter your water, the more clear the ice cube, the cleaner the water was. I honestly can't confirm that theory, so I'll leave it at that. 

If I were an alcohol drinker, these would totally be a hit among my drinking friends, but I haven't had an adult beverage in quite a few years. Some of my friends gave it up as well. Therefore, the sloth will be used as a conversation starter in water or soda, and I'm sure people would think these are just as cool. 

Even though I picked up the packs for less than the $9.99 Amazon is selling it for, it's worth it because it's different. If there were other animals at this store, I probably would have purchased them too. It doesn't have to be for the hard stuff, you can serve ice in anything you want cold. Just because this mold is made for a bigger glass (for cocktails and such), doesn't mean you still can't use it in water or juice. It would actually be interesting if other freezable type liquids were put in this and it melted in something else (like if a fruit punch were made for a party and the sloth ice was various fruit juices to melt into the punch). That totally would be a fun party trick. 😆

That's about it for now; I wanted to give a quick update as to what I've been seeing and doing the past few days / since my last update. Work has been quiet but long on the days I've done the adult thing. Local schools are getting out in about 33 days, give or take, so summer season is getting closer upon us. Snowbirds left this week and there are still some trickling out. Pretty soon major traffic delays will be a thing of the past for a few months, and we'll see more rain in the future. Nor that we want any storms, mind you, but we're coming up on those wonder weeks and hopefully it won't be so bad.

Big hope. Haha.

Stay cool, stay buzzed, keep singing along with the voices in your head.

Cheers;

See Also:

• "Welcome Back, Kotter" theme song (via Amazon) (John Sebastian's original song, track 06)
• "WKRP in Cincinatti" theme song is hard to pinpoint on Amazon. It's originally sung by Steve Carlisle, but there's nothing to link to on the AtoZ site except covers, sadly enough. Some of them are poorly done, others are just okay.