NBC’s Treasure Hunters: Challenge #8

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I’m a bit behind this week as I didn’t get home until after the show started1. Click the more link to view the spoil­ers for this week’s chal­lenge.
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Day 2

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Day 1 at any job tends to con­sist of new employee paper­work, intro­duc­tions and maybe some light work. Day 2 tends to be a bit more inter­est­ing. Today, I got more of a taste of what my new job is like and so far, so good. That my work com­puter is a shiny, new lap­top faster than any com­puter I own doesn’t hurt my atti­tude. Plus the heat wave we’ve been hav­ing finally broke today and the temp maxed out in the eight­ies rather than the 90°/100° tem­per­a­tures we have been having. :)

NBC’s Treasure Hunters: Challenge #7

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I’m not as quick on the uptake this week, but I’ve finally got the solu­tion for this week’s chal­lenge. Again if you don’t want to read any spoil­ers; stop read­ing here and now!
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Warning: Dannon 7 Benefits All Natural Coffee Yogurt

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When I get up in the morn­ing, one of my first thoughts is usu­ally along the lines of how good that alarm clock would look when smashed into a mil­lion pieces. Given this is the case, I tend to sleep as late as I can and still get to work on time. Doing this does not give me a lot of time in the morn­ing for break­fast. I try to make up for this by eat­ing a cup of yogurt as my first break­fast and then later in the morn­ing I get a gra­nola bar as sec­ond breakfast.

Addi­tion­ally, I don’t like to waste money1 so I tend to buy what­ever yogurt is on sale. When I did this Tues­day, the gro­cery store had Dan­non yogurt on sale at 20 cups for $10 or 50¢ a cup. This makes them just barely cheaper than the store brand yogurt. I thought I’d give them a try and picked up 10 cups in a vari­ety of flavors.

Yes­ter­day, I cracked open my first cup of the Dan­non yogurt and had selected 7 Ben­e­fits All Nat­ural Cof­fee Yogurt. Once I had the foil cover off the cup of yogurt I knew this was not going to be good. The color of the yogurt reminded me of things I’d blown out of my nose, last time I had a bad sinus infec­tion. For extra unpleas­ant­ness, there was a thing layer of oil or maybe water on top. I mixed the yogurt up with my spoon, start­ing by smash­ing it straight down into the yogurt. To my mind some of the yogurt should have stuck to the spoon when I lifted it out of the cup. Also, the yogurt should have moved together to fill in the holes where I’d stabbed down into it with my spoon. Alas, nei­ther of these events tran­spired. Then I did a more tra­di­tional mix­ing2 and pre­pared to take my first bite.

*hor­ri­fied shudder*

Imag­ine if you will the worst office cof­fee you’ve ever had. With extra creamer. Gone all cold and solid­i­fied. Now add in an unhealthy dol­lop of chalk­i­ness and you’ll almost under­stand what it tasted like. Of course, that’s not the worst part of this story. The worst part is I have another cup of it in my fridge and I’ll be eat­ing it in the next week or so. Yes I know I will hate it, but if I just throw it away then it’s wast­ing money. *sigh*

1 Some peo­ple would say I’m cheap.
2 Swirling the yogurt around in a cir­cu­lar fash­ion using my spoon.

Up in Smoke

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It was another long, dull morn­ing at the office. For­tu­nately, the after­noon proved to be quite a bit more inter­est­ing. While I was exam­in­ing an issue reported by one of our beta users; I heard some shout­ing about a fire from one end of the build­ing. Pop­ping my head up like a good, office gopher; I saw some peo­ple rush­ing about, the over­head lights that was were off and the safety lights were on. Shortly after that I was told a fan in one of the bath­rooms had caught on fire, burning/melting some of the plas­tic of the fan. There was only a lit­tle bit of smoke right then and the fire had been put out so I went back to work. Then the smoke got worse and I stood with some co-workers near an exit with the door open to the out­side for fresh air. We stayed inside as it had also just started to rain. A few min­utes later, we heard sirens and were told to either go to the top floor of the build­ing or out­side. I opted to stand out­side. After we were out there for some­thing like 20 min­utes; we were told to go home for the day. Which was a sweet 90 min­utes early, but I had a fear­some headache pre­sum­ably from the chem­i­cal fumes off the burn­ing plas­tic. What a day.

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