Just like home, you don't always get what you want...

That is the motto at the local diner...
During breakfast today (home of the "giant" pancake) at the local diner, a great mystery ensued.
It seems there was quite a sticky situation created by the mystery of the syrup that could not be located.  Apparently at this diner, which has all of about 6 tables + counter seats, each table should have one large bottle of maple syrup (the real stuff too).  We were sitting at the counter and I noticed one of the young waitresses whispering furtively to the owner (Larry).  Then Larry started eyeballing the tables and came out from behind the counter, bent down, and looked under a table, to the surprise of the customers.  Soon the story came out, a bottle of that syrup was missing and unaccounted for.
Had it been misplaced?  Had a sticky-fingered customer purposely walked off with it?  Seems like it would be awfully hard to conceal such a large syrup bottle unnoticed.

The mystery remains...after trying valiantly to finish off my strawberry rhubarb pancake, and settling our bill, the syrup still hadn't been located...

the mystery continues...

too much of a language nerd?

I noticed one of the ads on the bus has a mistake in it. It's actually an ad by the bus service itself. 
It has to do with directions for how you should exit the bus.  I should take a picture but I'm not sure if I've been back on that same bus again. 
On the sign, it tells you to exit through the back or something like that, unless you are "afraid of
a hoard of wild rabbits".  But if they are trying to describe a large group or crowd, then the word
should be "horde".  There is actually a noun form of the word "hoard" but it means something different.
Is it wrong that this bugs me a bit?

contrast...

Today in writing class I talked about the idea of doing comparisons/contrasts.
Here's an example:
Guy I saw at the bus stop:  Wearing jeans, flip-flops (no socks) and no hat, his toenails painted purple.
Me: When it's 26 deg. out and snowing: Winter coat, gloves, hat, wool socks
Possibly purple toes if I was not wearing shoes and socks!

first snow...

First snow of the season today...

Is winter already here?

Boo.