I drink a lot of soda.

When possible, if I get fast food, I like to bring it back here and have a can of pepsi - for two reasons.

First, pepsi from the grocery is way cheaper than soda from a restaurant.

Second, pepsi from the grocery actually tastes like pepsi.

Maybe I'm just unlucky... ...or live in the wrong part of the country... ...or something... ...but when I get soda from a fast food place - or even from a 'sit-down' restaurant - it is very poorly mixed with alarming regularity.

Like, I'd say 80% of the time.

Now, there may be some confirmation bias there, but even if I give myself a 30% margin of error, I'm still drinking bad soda half the time.

Does anyone else experience this? Am I the only one who is a little irked when I pay $1.50 for a 2c soda and it doesn't even taste right?

Does anyone come to the defense of the soda fountain?

~PS

Just so you all know, today is Penguin Awareness Day. This was *not* going unmentioned.

In other news, gas prices have finally dropped below $2 here in east TN. As per my previous agreement with the fuel companies, I will now cease complaining about the high price of gasoline until it is once again above $2.

Congrats to one Tony "Llama" for having successfully conquered Ape Escape 3 earlier this week. Catching 142 monkeys is no small task.

Game night at the coffeehouse last night was fun - but that was the most drawn-out game of Shadows over Camelot I've ever not finished. One of the guys that was playing with us heard us talking and said we should have a d&d night at the coffeehouse. This amuses me.

Lastly, I've been playing my new guitar a lot. My fingers aren't used to it, but it's been lots of fun. I think I need to retire my old effects pedal though. If I have enough money relatively soon I think I'll by a Boss EQ pedal so I can ditch the thing.

~PS