*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Same price here for fruit juices.

MK> Same here.  Depends if we're talking brandnames.  The generic pop is t
MK> cheaper stuff by quite a bit.

Ah but I'm talking the outdoor vending machines only.  Wont find generics
in ¨there. Qoo is an all time favorite with us.  Comes in several flavors
(fruity ¨ones) and mildly carbonated. They have one that had green on the
can (or ¨bottle, some machines do the plastic bottles) and it tastes just
like a fresh ¨burst of liquid crisp lettuce!  Sells out really fast in hot
weather sadly so ¨it's hard to find just now.

Next favrites are 'Pocari Sweat' (love the name!) and Daqari.  (note the
¨Japanese do not always follow a 'q' with a 'u').


MK> It's been hot here the last couple of days.  Other then that it has be
MK> cooler then average so far up till now.

 CS> hit 40-43C in the next month and stay there til mid-Octoberish then 
 CS> chill down in a mere month so that by early December, we potentially 
 CS> get snow.

MK> Although it doesn't often get that hot it sounds more or less the same
MK> as here except the so-called winter is more a rainy season but there i
MK> potential for snow here at sea level.  Usually it is the higher elevat
MK> that get a more traditional winter.

I findit hard to fathom it being that hot every day where you are in
summer!  ¨You live so much more north!  Tht 40-43C is 105-110F!!!  If you
check on a web, ¨you will not find that for Sasebo because the weather
station is on the other ¨side of a mountain range and it's 10-15 degrees F
cooler over that way.  I base ¨my posts on the thermometer in my kitchen
(in the outside window, not in direct ¨sun) which reads both C and F
scales.  Yesterday for 3 hours we hit what the ¨base calls 'double black
flag' (115F, no PT allowed outdoors unless it's ¨bicyling to and from
work).  It's unusual to hit that hot this early so thats ¨why the rules. 
Once we start averaging 100F, they relax that as we are adapted ¨to it and
the rule then only applies to 'mandatory PT not allowed'.

Right now we average (I still think more in F but trying to adapt as I know
¨where you live it's C) low 90's F.  35-38C roughly.

Wanna really mess me up?  Give me an oven that only reads in C!  Yikes! 
They ¨have them here too.  Mostly toaster oven types.

 CS> lingers through parts of what other people have as 'fall'.

MK> Most of Canada only gets two distinct seasons; winter and that brief '
MK> season' others call summer.  :-)

Hehe yuppers!  Here, it's really distinct though the fall feels 'shorter'
than ¨the other 3 seasons.  Move north of us to Osaka and they are all
evenly based.  ¨Northernmost Japan has the ice festivals with wonderful
huge ice creations ¨because they are basically located at the sothern tip
of what would be Siberia ¨easterwards of it (not as severe a climate as
Siberia, but quite cold in ¨winter).  Nothernmost part has what would
qualify as 'winter' to many of us for ¨5 months of the year.

                                       xxcarol

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