My Encounter With Mandeep

It has been a long, long time since I've written a real blog. Since the pandemic days, in fact. But this warrants it. So there I was, going about my usual afternoon busywork at the AVN compound, when I hear a call from downstairs: "Hello?" I thought I heard my co-worker moving in that direction to see what was up, but then a few minutes later: "Hello?" Looked like it was gonna be up to me. So down the stairs I plodded, and immediately found myself face-to-face with a short, pudgy, balding man seemingly of Indian descent, whom I will call "Mandeep" for the purposes of discretion.  "Hello sir, is there somebody I can talk to here? This is the AVN?" he asked me. "Well yes, what do you need?" I asked. "I have traveled so far, I just need to talk with somebody who can help me," he implored. "OK ... what's happening? What's your question?" I persisted. "I want to find out how can I get into the industry?...
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Diet Dr. Pepper & Cream Soda Shortage Confirmed

As you surely know, I've been on an increasingly desperate hunt for a replenishment of the not-long-ago introduced greatest libation ever conceived by mankind, aka Diet Dr. Pepper & Cream Soda, to no avail. I have scoured every grocery store, driven far and wide, chased down every lead, and still I have none to show for it. This was my last can, savored yesterday at lunch:

I twitted that to Dr. Pepper, with the open question of whether it was to be last one ever. And funny enough, though it wasn't in direct response, THEY twitted THIS yesterday to the masses:

So perhaps all is not lost. In the meantime I'm trying to figure out how to make due until more of my sweet, sweet DDP&CS turns up. Today I tried concocting my own substitute using these:

It ... was not the same. But look, I'm scrambling here, OK? I don't know what else to do. I just hope and pray the real stuff returns. Soon. If not, I really may go off the deep end, folks. 

Yeah, I know, let's just pretend that ship hasn't already sailed.

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