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2011 tea tasting
North African Mint
Containing green tea, mint, with cardamom, ginger, licorice, fennel, and pepper. This was way better than i expecte it to be. Minty but not stongly so but a really nice, smooth flavour.

Cold remedy: A base of green tea with ginger and a couple other ingredients. It's supposed to ward off a cold if you drink lots of it when you feel one coming on. Unfortunately i only had a single serving sample so it's not really done the trick. It was ok.

Coco Chai Rooibos: A base of rooibos which is a red tea, caffeine free. I've not had it before and i suppose i should try it without all the spice and flavour added but this was nice. The cinnamonny chai flavour and that touch of coconut which gave it a sweet "soft" feel . Nice just before bed.

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I bought a couple of ebooks from the Kobo website this morning and thought i should try the wireless feature. I went down into the shops area where there's a few free wifi spots (Rogers, Starbucks, Second cup) and fired up the reader. It found all the wifi spots and there was no problem connecting at all. Went to the menu for the Kobo site and synced and though it took a few minutes, it popped the new ebooks in no problem. I do think it's a nuisance that it also put on one i'd already read but i think i just need to remove that from the "My Library" listing on the kobo site and it will not re-sync that next time. I think you can do that from the desktop app as well.

I don't have the desktop app installed at work because i don't like to put too many personal types of things on this pc like that and they do frown on it. I have Irfanview on here for photo viewing and i also installed my purchased copy of Paintshop Pro for when i want to do some graphic work. I use Foxit for pdf reading too as it's wayyyy better than Adobe reader. So fast, doesn't always look for updates every time you open it. I also use Firefox which is considered non-standard as well. They're saying when we go to Windows 7 that we might not be allowed to install anything non-standard. I hope that's not true as i would hate having to use IE all the time.

We are approaching our family birthday season. My mom's was last week, my nephew's is this weekend. Mine is next week along with my aunt, then two cousins and two of my best friends by the end of March. There's a 50th birthday party next weekend for one of my second cousins. I think my family will celebrate mine this weekend with my nephew. Our other birthday season is June-July when there's another flurry of birthdays. (Niece, nephew, father-in-law-to-be, sister, friend)