Dirty little secret

The only thing that gets me up to the gym on a good day is knowing that I'm allowed to have Tim Horton's on the way home. Typically I have a large double-double (that's a large "coffee" with two units of cream and two units of sugar). I have no idea why this is a treat.

The first time I tried drinking Tim Horton's I had it the way I learned to drink coffee while I was in France. Black with a bit of sugar. It was not quite 8AM. I think I may have spit the "coffee" back into the cup while my students laughed at me. I think it was the precocious Kinley who taught me the right way to enjoy a Tim Horton's coffee--double double or not at all. I keep putting "coffee" in quotes because it really isn't coffee at all. It's a coffee-based beverage. Sort of. When Leslie was up in The Canadia back in May I introduced her to Tim Horton's as a coffee-based beverage (the expression comes from Dieter). Leslie knew to brace herself before taking the first sip. I can't say she enjoyed even a drop of what she had, but she was a trouper for trying (not to mention it was the only caffeine available at our venue). Dan later introduced Leslie to Chillers, which I think she liked better.

Last night I went to the gym and treated myself to a large double-double and two sour cream glazed Timbits. (Random trivia: five timbits is the same price as one donut, but four timbits is the same amount of dough. So you get more bang for your buck if you buy five timbits...). Surprisingly the coffee was enough of a sugarandfatandcaffeine high. I ate the timbits grudgingly. Calories should never be consumed with a grudge so tonight I skipped the timbits.

And then I banged out the draft of a 1,600-word article for Linux Pro Magazine, a print magazine that I'm sort of going steady with right now. Last month they included me in their write-up of LugRadioLive USA (I'm in the full article which is available as a PDF). In their next issue I have a one-page article summarizing this year's DrupalCampToronto (I believe the PDF will be available on-line next week, I'll link to it then). The article I'm working on now will be submitted for inclusion in the September issue.

On the one hand Timmies is pretty damned gross, on the other hand I can't think of any other legal substance that would allow me to bang out a mildly coherent 1,600-word article in less than an hour.