Mad scientist mode. I wanted to scream aloud, “It’s alive! It’s alive<\/i>!” as did Colin Clive in the original Frankenstein<\/i>. Why?<\/p>\n
My grandmother loves to drink Sprite in the 20 ounce bottles. She doesn’t drink the whole bottle, though, pouring some into a glass tumbler, and then putting the remainder in the bottle in the refrigerator. I opened the refrigerator tonight, saw four Sprite bottles in various states of emptiness, and decided to do something about them.<\/p>\n
Consolidation! I poured the bottles into one another, retightened the cap, and put the filled Sprite bottle back in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n
Of course, in a day or two I’ll need to do the same, and the Mad Scientist impulse will surely overcome me once more.<\/p>\n
“It’s alive! It’s alive<\/i>!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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