Thanks! That’s interesting.
Now that is very interesting. A lesson we all can learn from this.
Interestingly enough I’ve been buying it in regular grocery stores for over a decade. It has always been in the Sprecher/IBC section of the soda aisle. I think that technically makes it common, but there is a lot more variety there now. There did just used to be one brand.
A lot of mixed drinks call for ginger beer, so I’m sure that’s kept it alive through unpopular times. I’ve also found alcoholic ginger beer quite refreshing.
Perhaps it’s a region thing, although it’s also possible I just never noticed it.
I have a love/hate relationship with ginger beer. I love it, but I love the style that is so gingery that it will take your head clean off by the smell alone. Most of the stuff I find is just a step away from ginger ale. It’s too sweet and only barely ginger flavoured. I’ve found a nice mix for making drinks, but the spiciness doesn’t last more than a second before it’s gone. Our local mega-grocer (President’s Choice) used to make one that was really good, but dialed it way back. Grace did the same. I’ve tried making my own, but with only moderate success. I’ve even gone so far as to specifically source Jamaican ginger.
Oh, well. It’s hard to make a Dark and Stormy that I like.
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I love ginger beer. The stuff you buy in the shops are either too fizzy and watery, or too horridly expensive.
Will have to make my own then. Luckily my MIL have a lot of good recipes that I can use.
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I need to find the stuff I used to use again. Takes the tar out of your lungs with the after taste.
When you’re buying from a place like Half Price Books, the prices are great. When you’re selling to them, it’s not so great. I’d probably get more money by having a yard sale. But, they’re out of the house and if I look at the original purchase as a VERY long-term rental, it’s a little more tolerable.
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Things you learn when digging through old stuff:
Recordable DVDs are not an archival medium for backups unless you specifically buy archive grade DVDs, which I did not. Even when they’ve been indoors all this time, you can hit CRC errors. In other cases, the DVDs just aren’t read at all. Fortunately, an older computer with a less sophisticated DVD drive is having a better time reading the data and a new backup onto a hard drive is in progress.
You know, I had this same kind of issue years ago where a variable-speed DVD drive wasn’t reading some discs as well as an even older fixed-speed DVD-ROM drive.
There’s benefit in keeping old computer equipment around, I guess. It may not be fancy, but it gets the job done in times where the new hotness sticks its nose in the air and just scoffs at it.
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Update: It’s type 2 diabetes for me. Which is nice to know.
However, telling me this morning that I have MRSA and three hours later that it’s just a regular staphylococcus aureus infection was quite unnecessarily upsetting.
I’m glad they got you sorted out. Sounds like diet and exercise life changes for you!
Please take care of yourself. I wish I could tell you how awful it was when the roommate passed away mostly because he didn’t.
That does sound like quite a roller coaster… Good to hear it’s not as bad as you thought.
Today’s magnitude 6.3 earthquake off the cost of Oregon is your friendly reminder that the Cascadia Subduction Zone is overdue to let go.
Review your evac plans accordingly.
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So about 21 years ago I was going for my first tech job that wasn’t at a small college I had previously attended. It was a summer job because the college job (which I loved in many ways) didn’t pay summers unless I was willing to live on nothing to stretch my income out. (1)
So I headed down to Maryland, where I grew up, for a summer gig at my brother’s employer. The first day I was stuck doing the usual IT job thing of “We desperately need to hire people, but we have no time to talk to them, so we’ll sit them in a room until things clear up”(2) which meant sitting in the UNIX guy’s Cave-Office and not annoying people trying to work.
So since I had nothing to do, I figured I’d read through a book from the stacks piles scattered throughout the room. I grabbed an O’Reilly press book since those were usually approachable and had friendly covers (3). It was some edition of DNS & BIND. it was either that or what looked like much more specific material on Solaris or HP-UX administraton. I only read a bit before my brother said, “Hey, that’s really boring. Read something else.”
Little did he know that decades later I’d be administering a DNS environment, and still trying to make it through DNS & BIND.(4) I do have it on Kindle now.
(1) Knowing what I know now, I should have considered this. I could have still taken on summer work, and maybe have devoted summers to some creative endeavors. I could live very cheaply those days. But it didn’t happen.
(2) There might have been some sort of crisis going on that day… I wasn’t involved, since I just barely started working there.
(3) OK, so it was no “DON’T PANIC” but it could have been worse.
(4) To be picky, we use Infoblox, but it’s basically a fancy front-end for BIND when it comes to DNS.
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Despite my complaints, I’m much happier working for and with people I respect and think are smarter than me, as compared to the last several years at OldJob where neither were true.
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Switch to LED lights, they said. They’ll cost a bit extra up front but they’ll more than make it up in total savings, they said. What they didn’t say is that when some of them start to fail well before their expected end of life, they can turn into strobe lights.
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Got an irritating neighbour? Point said new strobe light at his house…
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Less than an hour back at work after a 4 day weekend and I’m already over it.
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I just found out a vendor salesperson I deal with apparently lost a close friend which is why she stopped returning my emails. I wish to be compassionate… But she’s also the reason renewing licensing for a major product was a major mess last month, and generally not one of the sales people we want to deal with.
I’ve had the same experience, granted the ones that went bad were the most inexpensive LED bulbs that I’ve ever seen. Lowe’s was selling them for a buck a bulb on black Friday weekend a couple years ago. But it still makes me leery of replacing the fluorescent fixtures in the kitchen with those nifty looking flat LED array panels. Or the meh-looking single bulb fixtures in the bathrooms.
OTOH, if I can find one the right price that includes a motion sensor, so it would automatically shut off when someone leaves the bathroom light on, I’ll jump on it.