As if 2011 hadn’t been busy enough, Mel and I closed the deal on a new house last week, and we will be vacating our digs on Cambridge Street South on December 16th. Just to recap:
- December 2010: We get engaged
- April 2011: I leave my job at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for a new position at Health Canada
- May 2011: We spend the month travelling in Belize
- July 2011: We get married
- August: Mel submits her PhD thesis for defense and starts her new job as Director of Research at Youcan
- November 2011: We buy our new home
The new place is in Lincoln Heights, a great little neighbourhood we knew essentially nothing about before going to see the house two weeks ago. The house is a 70s-era ranch-style home, but it’s really the lot that sold us. The yard backs onto the Mud Lake Conservation Area, an NCC wildlife preserve, which means no rear neighbours, ever. It also means access to bike and hiking trails and the Ottawa River Parkway. It’s a bit further west than we had been looking, but it will be worth the extra few minutes travel time. Libbie is going to go nuts when she sees her new playground, and Mel and I might actually get to use our snowshoes this winter…
The next few weeks before we move in will be crazy: packing, purging, Xmas season nonsense, etc. But once we’re in and settled, drinks by the fireplace will be sweet.
Housewarming coming soon…
Hoo boy. This is frightening in a way that only Rollo, Mike Harley, and Mike McLaughlin would understand. Sour candy: it really CAN rot your teeth!! Who knew?? Sour Spray is almost as acidic as battery acid. I shudder to think how much of this stuff I rammed down my gullet in my mid-30s during the Great Sour-Off…
Acidic candy
Sour candy is sour because of the acidity level. The Minnesota Dental Association has compiled a chart listing several popular sour candies, all of which are acidic enough to cause tooth enamel loss and some of which are almost as acidic as battery acid! Here’s part of the chart:
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Update: I meant to add that the ph scale is logarithmic (like the Richter scale) so that a pH of 3.0 is 10 times more acidic than a pH of 4.0. That means that even the pH 1.6 & 1.8 candies on the list aren’t quite battery acid, but it also means that a pH 2.0 candy has 100x more acidity than is required to cause enamel loss, not just 2x.
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holy moses. sgt motormouth still got it!! http://t.co/koSsA2c0 (thanks, @kottke)