Oh yeah, I forgot to weigh (ha!) in with my scores for the mint chocolate protein powder:

• Smell: 10/10. This stuff seriously smells like a mini box of Ovations on Christmas morning.
• Mixability: Kevin, who has tried lots of these things, gave it 9/10. I am new to the world of protein shakes, but I guess they can be gritty or chunky or generally gross. This kind mixes well, though.
• Taste: 8/10: Doesn't quite live up to the smell, but it's still really good. I bet if I mixed it with milk instead of water, it would hit 9/10. I might have to try that on Monday.

For the record, the only other kind I've had was Chad's chocolate and I didn't smell it, but I'd give it a 6/10 for taste. Not good enough that I'd look forward, but not a bad taste, either. I bet it would get to 7/10 with milk too. And he brought by the tub of tropical berry powder, and it gets 3/10 for smell. Not appetizing. But he says it tastes okay. I might try one on Friday.

Yesterday after work, Kevin and I were the only two people in the gym. We goofed around with the pullup assist machine and found that it didn't offset as much weight as it claimed to. Science was conducted and a graph will be built. Kevin said Chad would call us NERRRRRRRRRRRDS but if he does, he'll be the second to do so because Mika already did.

Chad, Internet shopper extraordinaire, just dropped off a giant vat - five pounds - of protein powder. He got Tropical Berry for himself; I chose Mint Chocolate. His smells... not good. But mine smells DELICIOUS. I just keep opening the vat and inhaling. It smells like those cookies with the chocolate wafer and the mint creme, and the whole thing is dipped in chocolate... you know the ones? Oh man. It smells like After Eights or Ovations. Or my favourite gum. I think I may have chosen very wisely.

I haven't tried it yet, though. I'm going to be really sad if it tastes like a butt.

Slept better last night. That's good!

Went to work. The morning was nuts but I managed to finish off two smaller projects and one larger one before heading to the dentist at 11:30, so I call the morning a success. My dental hygienist said my flossing and brushing has improved (YAY) and my dentist said that my checkup was good and so I call that a success as well.

Back at work, I started in on the newest big project. It was announced last Thursday and is due next Wednesday, i.e., a week from tomorrow. Today, I got 123 pages to add to our response. This is how I wound up taking a cab home from work at 11:30 at night. I had enough work to do that I probably could have stayed all night if I'd really been keen on it, but I hit a point where I lost both my ability to read and my will to live. If you had to read 123 pages of technical specs and masturbatory marketing fluff, you'd be ready to go home too.

Normally when I work late, I walk home, eat supper, and drive back to work so I don't have to walk home late at night, but, well, you know.

The car goes in to the mechanic tomorrow morning. All I need is for it to make the drive there okay. I don't see why it wouldn't but I didn't see why my wheel would rip off my car, so clearly my psychic abilities and automotive instincts are lacking.

Lunch was an Extreme Pita chicken caesar salad and Baked Lay's. Supper was the same, plus a pack of Popping Mini Eggs. Lunch tomorrow will be the same again. And if I have to stay late, supper tomorrow will be the same as well. I like the ol' CCS + BL, as it gets written down in my Weight Watchers booklets, but only to a certain degree.

Over the course of the day, I made it a mission to visit the desks of my coworkers and eat their candy. Lots of people have candy dishes. Normally, I try not to notice, but tonight, I figured why not? What else would a Weight Watcher with a clean bill of dental health want more than a pile of candy?

CANDY: caramel
DESK: Kenton's
REVIEW: too hard to get the plastic off

CANDY: Werther's Original (the chewy kind)
DESK: Kenton's
REVIEW: After I told Kenton I had taken a caramel, he said he also had Tootsie Rolls. These were most certainly not Tootsie Rolls, so I was initially skeptical. But this was delightful enough that I went back for a second one.

CANDY: scotch mint
DESK: Jim's
REVIEW: Meh.

CANDY: one of those hearts with words on it
DESK: It's in a common area - maybe Joyce bought them? I don't know.
REVIEW: OH GOOD LORD. This was Satan's candy. This was everything I hate about cereal marshmallows times a million. The dry, chalky crumbly sugar that scrapes against your teeth in that oh-so-terrible way... no no no no. If I was locked in the office and left to starve to death, I would eat the flesh off my own bones before I'd go back to those things.

CANDY: Sour Cherry Blasters
DESK: Marcel's, I think?
REVIEW: These were good! They appeared to be leftover Halloween treats and the staleness gave them a delightful chewiness.

CANDY: Sour Patch Kids
DESK: Whoever had the Sour Cherry Blasters
REVIEW: With a range of flavours, you'd think these would be better than the Sour Cherry Blasters. You would be wrong. I've never been a huge fan.

CANDY: Jelly Belly jellybeans
DESK: Same desk as the sours
REVIEW: I didn't get a popcorn one so you know these ruled.