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Springtime and Hidden Updates
Well, springtime in Chicago has finally, well, sprung! 71 degrees today, windy as hell though. If you believe the 10 day forecast, and I don’t, the lowest temp for the next week and a half is 52 degrees. Some lovely spring showers, too, of course. It’s about time we had a little bit of baseball weather to go along with the start of the season.
Bottled Goodness
I remember in my youth, drinking A&W Root Beer Floats like they were going out of style. Now, as I approach my 30th birthday, they’ve concocted “A&W Floats” A&W Root Beer and ice cream IN A BOTTLE! This is so awesome. To me, it tastes pretty close to the real thing, it just looks, well, melted. I’ve seen comments saying it was too sweet, or that it tasted like sweet, flat root beer and melted ice cream. My solution: Put the bottle in the freezer, for 20-30 minutes, gives it a good chill, which is always how root beer floats tasted best anyways.
Oh, and root beer floats were never quite right unless it was made with A&W, period. Kudos for re-introducing a classic concoction. As of today, I’ve only found them at 7-Eleven in single bottles, they retail for $1.79 and supposedly 4-packs will retail for $5.99. Its worth it for the occasional treat. Or, in my case, the daily treat.
They’ve also come out with Sunkist Orange Floats, which are damn tasty themselves.
Tragedy … Too Close to Home
Add another shooting rampage on a college campus to the ever-expanding list. This one happened in my own back yard, so to speak. Roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago in DeKalb, IL a gunman opened fire in front of a geology class, shooting 21 students, before killing himself. Three victims were killed on site, two more victims died following transport to area hospitals, where two victims remain in critical condition. This is a new and disturbing chapter in the book of life as we know it today. A new chapter of the same old story; the senseless killing of innocent people. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those involved, directly or indirectly, in this horrifying series of events. I really can’t begin to completely put into words the sadness that I feel right now. What really can be said?
Unbelievably, this is the fourth shooting at a school here in the US, within the last week.
Vector TD2
Candystand.com just released the newest tower defense game by David Scott, Vector TD2.
VTD2 follows Flash Element TD, Flash Circle TD, Vector TD and Vector TDx, all of them addictive as all hell and a complete waste of way too much time. The maps are harder than previous editions, but that doesn’t diminish the game play. Thankfully, I can’t get to Candystand from work, or I’d probably be out of a job.