Today is the day.
For today, only, Dr Pepper is giving away a free can of Dr Pepper to everyone in the US. This is the results of an announcement the company made back in March: if Guns N' Roses released their new album in 2008 (the one they have been working on for 15 years), then Dr Pepper would give a free can of soda to everyone in America, save departed band members Slash and Buckethead.
In October, the band set the US-only release date for Chinese Democracy (the album) as today. With that, Dr Pepper made today the day to grab a coupon off their website, fulfilling their end of the deal.
Now, if only I could get www.drpepper.com to load...
I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper
She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?
Be a Pepper, drink Dr Pepper
Stop the Insanity! (where is Susan Powter when I need her?).
One of the radio stations here has already begun playing Christmas music. It's the week before Thanksgiving! It think the station might have not yet switched completely over to holiday songs, but I don't know for sure, as I'm doing my best to now ignore the station until mid-January (I keep having to remind myself of my self-imposed boycott as well). This is one of the things that gets me out of the holiday spirit... and it's not even time for Chrismas yet! I still hope, probably in futility, that radio will wake up and realize that Christmas should wait until after Thanksgiving, despite what the retailers of the US (aka their advertisers) would like them to believe... ('course, those retailers should know to wait as well).
And in other insanity-related issues this week, my alarm did manage to go off fine on Thursday and Friday--which was nice. It didn't help was that I got to work on Thursday to find 150 emails coming into my Inbox. By the end of the workday there were over 350 unreads there, and it took me part of Thursdays night and some of today to go through them. There's still some remaining, which I'm going to try to get through tomorrow (hopefully).
Broken ice still melts in the sun
And ties that are broken can often be one, again
Ever just have a week start off funky? I can't really pin-point one reason why this week has started off so, well, off, but it has.
Maybe it's because the power went off at my house yesterday morning, right when I was supposed to get out of bed. Consequently I woke up 10 minutes before I was supposed to be at the office, which meant I was 20 minutes late. (The power was still off when I scampered out the door.)
Tagging along from yesterday, this morning I woke up 20 minutes before I was supposed to be at the office. I discovered at 7:40 this morning that I'd set my clock for AM instead of PM when I got home last night. Consequently, my alarm was set to go off 12 hours late.... And then I was only about 5 minutes late to the office (not sure how that happened, particularly since I had to dodge waiting for a freight train this a.m., and then detour around road construction, and massive lines here and there...).
Course, Monday was strange as well, and I've had a bizarrely heavy email week... though hopefully tomorrow will be better. None of this really even gets into the cold weather that's around this week (it's colder here in South Florida than in Southern California at the moment).
Maybe it's all because I'm breezing through these Sookie Stackhouse books my sister sent me (I'm on the 4th one this week...). Hey, Elvis the Vampire is in it... or "Bubba" as he's referred to... which reminds me, I should get back to reading and find out. Hasta
Well please don't ask me what's on my mind
I'm a little mixed up, but I'm feelin' fine
I have recently stumbled upon a county-by-county breakdown map of last week's Presidential elections, which I found rather interesting and wanted to share. (Obama is blue, McCain is red, shades of purple mean a blending of the 2.)
More maps available from Mark Newman at the University of Michigan. A flash map of FL was created by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel here. (The link has Florida and county poll results for the President race, Florida's Marriage Amendment--which dishearteningly passed--as well as a few other races.)
In other news, I have safely returned from a weekend trip to Jackson, Mississippi. And while there wasn't exactly a ton of stuff to do outside of the works items I was there for (read: downtown Jackson shuts down when the work week is done, and there was only a couple of episodes of House on t.v. to distract me), I do have some catching up on things back here in FL to work on. As well as I'm trying to not be shocked that the media seems to have suddenly realized Obama's ethnicity (they didn't really point out anything about his African American heritage for the "two years of the campaign"--the media's words on campaign length, not mine. Then for the rest of last week post election, all CNN, etc. seemed to be able to focus on was his blackness. I had hoped that we were getting past that, but I guess, sadly, I was mistaken). So...
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
