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The Cupcake Shoppe is very small!

Definitely "Gourmet" Cupcakes. They had about 7 different varieties available (flavours like After Ate, Creamsicle, Holiday Cheer, Raspberry Chocolate, etc), and it was about $3 for a normal-sized cupcake (white cake, with Egg Nog icing). Delicious, however. I congratulated them and went on my way.

So, what's up with Gas and our Dollar? Yesterday, I was thinking that perhaps the Gas prices (which hit an incredible low of 58.5, as opposed to 72.5 some days) was in some way related to the capture of Saddam, but that seems highly unlikely. Today, gas prices are back to "normal" (being outrageous).

And as for our Dollar, it appears that since this morning our Dollar has gotten quite strong (i.e. the US Dollar was getting weaker by day's end when I cashed in what Dave returned to me). But it's at 77.3, which is incredibly high - it used to be around 65! What happened today that made our Dollar so much more appealing?

I'll probably post again tomorrow, but in any case, everyone have a Happy New Year!

Happy Soon-To-Be New Year! :D

Post Office situation went down like this: Turns out that aside from the Letter-Carriers, Canada Post uses an outside company for Parcel and Package Delivery.

What happened was that the people probably came by my house and tried to deliver the package once, but they didn't leave the slip at the house on the first day. What do they do with the notice slip? They mailed it - which means it takes time to get through the Postal Service again, before arriving at my door - one day before the Final Notice gets delivered.

The gentleman at the other end of the line was very polite. He even offered to have someone drop-off the other package I'm waiting for (TK's tail), whenever it arrives.

And in regards to TK's head, I'm getting this bad feeling that they've shipped it via Ground mail, since it's been "Dispatched from origin country" as of December 24th but hasn't been tracked since. I sure hope that's not the case...

New Season of Red vs Blue coming soon! (They predict Monday of next week, and they've been pretty good with holding their dates, so...)

Stories we didn't stop the presses for in 2003

The Globe and Mail today had a little information on the Canadian Dollar (analysts expect the Canadian Dollar to hit $0.80 US in 2004). However, there is an article about smaller, less-important events that happened this year that they condensed into one article.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031231/EWRAPUP31

Several things of note in there:
- Tim Horton's doesn't make their donuts in the stores anymore! ;_; (Nothing is sacred, yet the donuts remain holy.)
- Berlin will be creating Trashcans that will thank passersby who use them - Talking Trash, indeed
- A nine-metre (approximately 10 yards) fork was created in Rock City, NY to create - yes, a fork in the road.
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger has started an organ piece called Organ2 which is to be played as slow as possible - so it won't be finished until 2640. Thankfully he's not holding the keys down himself...

If those interest you, go and read the article. There's tons more, including a religious parrot. I don't want to spoil the whole article.

Speaking of which, anyone see today's Crossword Puzzle in the Globe and Mail? Including the clues, the thing takes up 2 whole pages. The crossword alone is more than 1/2 of a full page in the newspaper... O.o