Sunday, 10 August 2014, 17:54 CDT

I just finished drinking a Mountain Dew in a glass bottle.  I hadn't seen 
Mountain Dew in a glass bottle for years, but there they were for sale in 
a convenience store the other day.  When I saw them, I had to buy a couple 
because I probably haven't had it in glass since I was kid back in the 
1980s.  I remember always having one when I went to get a haircut back 
then.

It tasted quite good.  The taste was a bit different than regular Mountain 
Dew; I suspect that's because it uses sugar in the glass bottles (instead 
of the usual high-fructose corn syrup).  If they keep selling these, I'll 
keep buying them.

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Sunday, 24 August 2014, 00:13 CDT

I'm thinking about renting a VPS just to have a machine to play around 
with.

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22:20 CDT

I signed up for the free tier on Amazon's EC2.  I've set up a virtual 
server running Ubuntu Server because it most resembles Mint, which is what 
I'm most familiar with.  I haven't decided what I'll use it for, but I'm 
sure I'll think of something.