In Greensboro, there was a drive thru burger place that made the most awesome shakes, CookOut? They had a huge board that listed all the possible flavors. You could mix any number of items. I used to get a espresso chocolate malt shake, back when I could eat ice cream. They also had seasonal flavors like watermelon, pumpkin and egg nog. The latter was quite rich.

It's hot. AC completely quit while I was out and was blowing 90 F air. BAD AC.

But I now have a chicken burrito thing topped liberally with guac and real lime popsicles in the freezer for dessert. I still hate the layout of TJs and the parking is bad (unless you are SANE and just park further away, which coincidentally, it under trees) but LIME POPSICLES. And cheap guac.

I have some LIME popsicles too. They are the yum.

upto...Where did that even come from?

I think it's the "lite" effect:  commercial inundation.

Coffee Bean iced chai latte. It's what summer is for.

Well, that and dressing scantily.

These are pretty damned good. My favorites were some random cheap mexican kind (Mexico really knows how to present lime in its full glory), and these are pretty close. A little sweeter than the mexican ones, but I'll live.

Tell me not to eat spoonfuls of guac.

Don't eat spoonfuls of guacamole, Sarameg.

I need a Coffee bean near me. Or maybe to go to SF and see JZ and the Coffee Bean.

But it's cold and creamy and...yeah, really shouldn't.

Sometimes I really wonder about Devi. I got new food bowls and she keeps wander into the kitchen and walking around as if she's looking for something. Food is in bowls. I'm not sure she's figured this out yet.

Best wishes to you and your family, Zenkitty.

Ain't nothing wrong with eating spoonfuls of guac.

Ditto the cappuchino blast I current have, although I wish I had asked her to use coffee ice cream, not vanilla -- I didn't realize that's what they do until it was too late.

Ghana beat la Republica Checa? That's hot. (I get the World Cup schedule from the chalkboard outside the Mexican bar.)

So you know how when you launder pillows and comforters, they tell you to throw a couple of tennis balls in the drier?

...Where do people get tennis balls? Am I imagining the fact that they used to sell tennis balls in grocery/drug stores in the summer? Cheap ones, sure, but I'm not going to play tennis with them anyway. I hit a lot of stores today -- I wasn't just looking for tennis balls, but I did look for them while I was out. Nobody sells them anymore. Do I have to go to the Sports Authority to do laundry? Does everyone just have tennis balls, like they spontaneously generate? Do Allen wrenches hatch into if you leave them in a dark closet for long enough, so nobody needs to buy them? Does nobody launder pillows anymore, so it doesn't come up? I even looked in the laundry aisle to see if maybe there was some new, high-tech thing people use nowadays, with microchips and fluff-sensing technology. But no. I looked in the pet-toy aisle, thinking there'd be some tennis-ball-like object that would work, but everything there is made of plastic or rawhide.

It's the most minor of problems, but it vexes.

Although it might explain why the tennis court behind my building is always deserted.