4 hours later and I’m still fuming at how Tim Horton’s screwed up my coffee again.
Here’s the story, I decide to make a special drive out this morning to get my and my wife a coffee. She wants me to take this travel mug instead of wasting a paper cup. I knew this was going to be a disaster because asking to fill up one travel mug in the drive thru with 2 cremes, but 1 creme in the other normal paper cup was too much to handle. Compound that with the fact that 90% of the employees working at that location is not Canadian and cannot speak English.

So there I was, “Can I take your order?”

“Yeah, I’d like one large coffee, two cremes. I have a travel mug for that one by the way”.

…”You’d like a refill?”

“Yes, that coffee will be in a travel mug.”

sjdhfjkasdjhf <<< This is non-English speak by the employee.

I murmer, “I have no idea what you just said.”

“I’d also like another large coffee, 1 cream. I don’t have a travel mug for that one so I guess in a regular paper cup?”

sjdhfjkasdjhf <<< This is non-English speak by the employee.

I murmer, “Oh sh*t…I have no idea what you just said.” I’m pretty sure they heard this.

“You’d like a refill?”

At this point I’m looking at where I can drive off but there’s never an escape from a drive-thru. I think they build the curve things on purpose to keep you locked in so you can’t drive away in retaliation. I’m forced to ride this one out.”I’d like one large coffee, 2 cremes in this travel mug, I’d like another large coffee, 1 creme in a regular cup. That’s it.”

sjdhfjkasdjhf <<< This is non-English speak by the employee.

I drive through. I’m asked to pay $4 something for two $1.52 coffees. She passes me 3 cups. I explain the situation and end up with a travel mug and 1 more cup. I ask her twice:
“So this is the one with 2 cremes and this is the one with 1 creme?”

“Oh yeah-yeah, two creme”

“Oh sh*t.”

Totally a bad feeling about this but I have my hands full and I’m not about to start opening lids and checking for brownish tones so I drive home. I get home and both are very very light, meaning two creme in both, plus mine has like 2 sugar in it. I was furious and I’m still in a bad mood. That was my last five bucks and my gas tank empty light is on. Kill kill kill.

I’m now eating chocolate flavoured mini-wheats from the U.S…weird! Also picked up Cracklin’ Oat Bran. It’s like cookies !

Awww, how can you tell this face it’s time to go to bed?

The Halloween Kiss candy is terrible. Does anyone really like those things?

I had a voice mail at work today from a local IT guy at a customs office in Windsor Ontario. He was unpacking a switch I had configured and boxed up to be installed at the site. He said “Thanks for the switch – oh by the way, did you lose a gold ring?” He found my lost X-Ring (university grad ring) that must have fell off my finger and into the box. He’s going to mail it me.

It was about 2 months ago that I lost it. I thought it slipped off my finger when I washed my hands and dried it with paper towel since that was when I noticed it was gone and when I was screwing around with my hands. I even emptied out the trash cans and sifted through all the paper towels. Nice! I even called the jewelry store to ask how much a new one cost and she gave me a price that was more than twice what I originally paid. The price of gold went way up since then.

Life was more exciting when I thought Grape Nut cereal was actually grape nuts.

I think Subway switched from their egg whites solution to a ‘just add water’ powder now, I can tell the difference. They went from just okay to really really crappy. I think McDonalds is the only place that actually cracks and egg now.

We cancelled our home phone line recently and have moved to voice over ip (VoIP) which is basically telephone services over the internet. Unlike Skype you can use an ATA adapter, plug that in your home router and then plug your existing telephone(s) into that adapter. It converts analog phone signals into data to be transmitted over the net. So far so good. It was a $50 initial setup fee and then free forever so no more phone bill.

I think cable tv is going next since everything is on the net now anyway.

Painting that black stuff on your driveway is a crappy job. It’s not as easy as it looks, you can’t just roll it on and call it a day. You really have to push down hard to get the stuff in all the little holes and you end up breaking the broom stick roller extenders. Three of them.

I lost my friggin’ X-Ring today! I looked down and it wasn’t on my finger. I think I dried my hands with paper towel and it came off with it and into the trash. I looked but it wasn’t there.