Cola-ccino, Anyone?

So there's a new drink in town.  It's Cappaccino flavoured cola.  Yes, that's right.  Coffee and Coke.  Together in one fizzy drink can.  It's available down at the little cornerstore, so since I had to pick up a few other items (more basic things like bread, phone credit, eggs and bananas), I decided to take the leap and try out the new drink.  I bought three cans - one each for Sean, me and a visiting consultant.  After work yesterday, I popped some popcorn, and we popped open the tins.

And in fact, it wasn't too bad.  Sean took some photos, but I haven't gotten them onto my computer yet.  It tasted sort of like chewing on espresso beans and washing them down with Coke.  Not bad.  I don't know if there's more caffeine in it or not, but it sure gave you the feeling that you were getting a double dose of caffeine!  But it was worthy to try again.

I also said that after "work" we popped the tins open.  In fact, I didn't do too much work yesterday!  My computer got a bit of a virus.  So Sean wanted me offline so he could contain it and clean it.  Don't know quite how or why, but something got into my yahoo email and started spamming everyone in my contacts.  Sorry for those of you who know me and got an email about a "Japanese friend..."!  Anyway, my computer is rather, um, er, well, full (much to Sean's chagrin!), so it took a while to scan everything.  So I sorta wandered around the compound like a little lost puppy.  Not quite knowing what to do with myself without a computer for the day!

Thankfully, there's no workshops coming up.  I'm not presenting at any conferences anytime soon, and there's really no deadlines pressing on me.  So it was sort of nice to have the "freedom" to have a day without a computer to do other things.  I tidied up some files on my desk.  I shopped for a new whiteboard for the workshop room, and even unpacked a few things from my trip to Nairobi.  And by late afternoon, my computer was clean and back in my hands.  And I still marvel at the fact that Sean is here to do it all for me - I wasn't the one trying to figure out how to contain my virus and sitting and watching it scan.  Amazing to have someone else here who actually knows what he's doing!

I think he definitely earned his Cola-ccino yesterday.