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As most of you know, I’m a big fan of Coke soft drinks. My current favourite is the gold-canned, caffeine-free Coke Classic. I’ve tried just about every variation that’s come along in the last ten years: vanilla Coke, Coke with lime, black cherry vanilla Coke, and even Coke with ice in it.

I’ve been very wary of the diet stuff mostly because it tastes like crap (sorry Sarah). I’m also a bit wary of the artificial sweetners which I don’t completely trust as being non-carcinogenic. The lounge at work though has started to offer Coke Zero, a new offering from the Coca-Cola company. I’ve tried it and I think it tastes much better than Diet Coke. There’s apparently half the aspartame and they’ve tried to make it taste much closer to normal Coke.

I’m trying to cut down on my sugar comsumption, so this seems like a somewhat workable alternative to not drinking Coke at all. I am afraid that I’m just trading sugar for cancer-causing agents.

It’s a bit early for me to comment on the 2008 US presidential election but allow me to do so at this time. It would be easy for me to talk about the frontrunners, Obama, Hilary, and Rudy but I ain’t about doing things the easy way. Let’s discuss a lesser known candidate, Dennis Kucinich.

Kucinich also ran in 2004 but was largely lost in the whole battle royale between Dubya and Kerry. This time around, he seems to have a secured a more noticeable platform, namely in the form of a new, smoking hot redhead of a wife, over 30 years his junior, and over a foot taller than he.

Yeah, I know his stance on abortion, gay rights, immigration, and Iraq would have some influence on me but his street cred jumped a couple hundred points after he got married to his third wife Elizabeth in August of 2005.

I know it might seem unfortunate that Kucinich would get more attention this time around just because of his wife but let’s face it, that’s the reality of the situation. There have been many stories written about the couple. The fair-skinned Brit has even done an interview about the whole thing which you can watch here. If you prefer reading, this entire blog post is about how the unlikely couple met.

I doubt he’s going to win even a single electoral college vote but man, who cares? He’s already a winner in many people’s eyes!

Ever since I moved out to the wastelands of Tatooine, I’ve been separated from my friends by a great distance. It’s tough when for a couple years, your closest friends were just down the hall.

So it was with great joy that I heard GK himself, Garrett was moving to Port Moody with his ladyfriend. Not only was he moving to Port Moody, he was moving to a place just a five minute walk from my home.

We will now be able to share the same McDonald’s, the same 7-11, and possibly the same discount women’s clothing store. With GK being so close, I told him I would be over lots and that he should stock the refrigerator with food. Garrett has a brand spanking new widescreen LCD TV but no Xbox 360. I, on the other hand, do have one of those. It will be a good combo. Plus, we both have Wiis so now we can trade games on a regular basis.

The funny thing is, GK and I work just half a block from each other. Now, we’ll be living as close as well. We may even commute home together too, though that seems quite unlikely since I work some pretty long hours.

Anyways, I can’t wait to tell Garrett about my friend Bob Sacamano.

Last night, I enabled some new visitor tracking tools. The map you see above is from the last 23 or so visitors to my blog. I think the Spain one might be a false positive. I don’t know anyone in Spain… or do I?

Spider-Man 3 took in $148 million USD in its first three days of release in the US. In light of this, I give you this heart-warming news story from Oregon.

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TV funnyman Conan O’Brien is in San Francisco this week, taking his show on the road. Last night, it was Lucasfilm themed evening. Not only did he interview the Man himself, he got to tour Lucasfilm headquarters. The above clip is from part two, you can view the first part here.

Well, it was a lunch for the ages on Monday. Yes, I’ve lunched with gwilli before. Yes, I’ve also lunched with GK himself. Monday was the day though where we all met at some sorta weird and powerful lunch nexus.

gwilli took the reins and gathered the troops. He hadn’t seen Garrett in person for years but had kept in touch via the Internets. I said I wanted Mexican so Greg took us to this authentic Mexican place on the outskirts of the downtown east side.

I could describe the lunch here but that would be a waste of time and words. Why don’t you just read gwilli’s post? Don’t forget to click on the pics! I gotta say that mango water stuff was awesome in a liquid way.

It was quite the meeting of the bloggers. Not quite Spider-man meets Wolverine meets the Hulk but more like a crossover between Different Strokes, Silver Spoons and Webster.

When I leave work, I usually walk by a pub on my way to the limousine stop. Next to the pub is a bunch of street parking. This evening, as I walked by the pub, right where you could park a car was a big pile of horse poop. Having grown up the son of two horse ranchers, I know horse poop when I see it and this my friends was indeed it.

It looked fresh, not more than a couple of hours old. Don’t ask how I know, I just do. I have no idea why someone would park a horse where a car would usually go. That street isn’t known for horse-drawn carriages nor wild horses. Nevertheless, a horse was parked outside that pub for a sufficient amount of time for it to do its business… and right by the outdoor patio too. How odd.

I’m going to see if the poop is still there tomorrow. Stay tuned mofos.

Friday night’s Sleep Report is brought to you by Josten’s. Take pride in your achievements and think Josten’s!

I stayed up until 4am reading random Wikipedia articles. The last thing I read was on James Dyson, the successful British inventor, known mostly for his cyclone vacuums. It’d be weird if he made Cylon vacuums.

After crawling to bed, I fell asleep almost immdiately. I awoke at 10am. Using integrals, I discovered I had accumulated only six hours of sleep. This was not enough. My bladder was full though, so I arose to urinate into the nearest toilet. After doing so, I return to my bed. I was completely awake. Not believing that six hours was enough rest, I tried going back to asleep. I managed to fall asleep again and awoke at 12:30pm.

Total sleep time was approximately 8 hours. This has been your sleep report.