A couple of cool things happened today. On whim I tried to plug in and turn on my dead laptop. I figured something was wrong with the powercord when it stopped charging a couple of moths ago. It was about time to decide whether or not to spend the $40 on a new cord in the event that was not the problem. Turns out I won’t have to because the battery started charging again and I could turn on the machine. It does sound like something is loose inside but I am weary to open it up. I have lost two laptops because I went looking inside.

The second thing that happened was I found real apple soda at Trader Joes. This stuff is imported from Spain but it was German Aphelshorle that first got me hooked. The cool thing about this stuff is that there are no added sugars besides what is naturally in the apple juice. This means it is not overly and artificially sweet like the soda’s we Americans mostly drink.

P.S. And my day just gets luckier. The gedit spell checker suggestion for the word “aphelshorle” was “asshole”. I needed a laugh like that.

UPDATE: As Thomas points out to me in the comments the correct spelling is Apfelschorle but that doesn’t produce nearly as hilarious a suggestion from the spell checker.

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