Cheeseburger-flavoured crisps? What an idea.
That you're making me feel old, and being the same age as your children does not help.
"The same age as my children"??? Takhisis, my cat is 10 years old. You're older than 10, but if you take the cat-human equivalent, you're younger than Maddy. In fact, according to the cat-human equivalent age chart I just consulted, even I'm younger than Maddy (by a few years; it says that she's about the equivalent of a 58-year-old human). However, keep in mind that this could be modified up or down depending on the general health of the cat (or human).
It's a funny thing, how my minds seems to switch to feet and miles (but not gallons) when using English and then bounces back to metric when I change to other languages.
Admittedly my use of both systems is a mishmash of what's comfortable and convenient. When it comes to land measurements, I still think in acres; I can't visualize how much a hectare is. And even though I know approximately how far it is from here to Calgary (it's not as far as it used to be, since both cities have expanded their boundaries), most people here don't express it in terms of distance. We tend to say, "Calgary is 90 minutes away from Red Deer" since that's how long it takes to drive there while going the speed limit (or reasonably close to it).
Well yes, from a convenience store or fast food place bottled pop is always expensive. Standard price for a 20 ounce bottle is $1.89, or 9.45 cents per ounce. Regular 12 pack of 12 oz cans of coke are $4.99 standard price at supermarket, or 3.46 cents per ounce, but that's regular price. They go on sale all the time, usually 3 for $10-12. At costco a 32 pack of 12 oz cans of coke is always $9 or 2.34 cents per ounce.
I made a mistake in my earlier post. The 6-packs of 710mL Dr Pepper I was talking about is actually $3.33 when it's on sale, not $3.99 (this is in CAD, and we have to pay deposit and enviro fees on top of that; the deposit is returned when the bottle is brought to the recycling depot).
The place with the 20-ounce pop I was talking about is Papa John's Pizza. I belong to their loyalty program, and last week they emailed me a coupon code for 10 points, which were redeemable until July 30. Since 10 points can be redeemed for an order of garlic bread sticks, I decided to use them, and also got a small spinach alfredo pizza and 2L of root beer.
I don't mind metric for distances and weights and stuff cus everything divides by 100 which makes conversions simple and it makes sense, even if I have to do some math to convert. And it's more precise since my pound divides into 16 parts and I end up using fractions wheras a kg naturally divides into 100 grams for precision. Like the idea that a us mile is 5280 ft is just really, really stupid, it's so arbitrary. And a ft is 12 inches. So a mile is a very arbitrary 63680 inches. Um ok cus that's easy to divide by.
Yep, those figures are on everyone's mind every day, right?
But I dislike Celsius because of that loss of precision. Freezing to boiling is only 100 degrees of difference, while on Fahrenheit it's 180 degrees. I guess you could say fractional parts like 72 degrees f = 22.22 c, but I don't think many people do that. Like to me 68 f or exactly 20 c is a very ideal temperature for me and what I set my house at, but simply going up to 22 c is now a balmy 71.6 f. I'm nitpicking obviously but it just seems like precision of temp is lost since most weather sites use whole numbers.
I don't worry about the decimal points with temperature. I just know my comfort levels at various times of the year, and which point it's too hot, too cold, and how much of a humidex or wind chill I can tolerate. For example, -20C with no wind chill is a lot easier to tolerate than -15C with a wind chill.
Speaking of chill... it is actually a little chilly at the moment. I think we're going to have a storm tonight, judging by all those grey clouds in the sky.
