Some of the thrilling talk about cinnamon recently got me to thinking. When you buy cinnamon-flavored candy, gum or dental hygiene products they are often advertised as being hot and fiery. Candy such as Fire Jolly Ranchers are specifically advertised as "fire". The candy and dental hygiene industry has been able to get away with it so far; however, it just doesn't make any sense. Think about the "fire" cinnamon flavor on toast. Likewise, think about cinnamon toast-flavored gum. How can both flavors get away with calling themselves cinnamon? It seems to me that they need to think of a new name for the "fire" version of cinnamon. Cinnamon belongs to toast. Period.

I received some excellent news regarding my watch the other day. Since none of you are familiar with the details of the watch situation, I will give you a brief, boring version of the story. The watch, which I purchased almost seven years ago, began experiencing problems about two or three years after I bought it. Since it is a chronograph watch, there are multiple hands. Mysteriously, one of the stopwatch hands began to reset to the wrong spot. About a year later another hand started resetting to the wrong spot. Whenever the stopwatch was reset the hands would go to the wrong spot (instead of zero). For example, the second hand for the stopwatch would reset to "41" and the minute hand would reset to "50".

The watch was sent to the manufacturer in Switzerland and they informed me that it would cost a small fortune to fix the problem. The amount was ridiculous so I had them return the watch without doing anything. I became bitter and muttered mean things under my breath about the company.

Fast-forwarding to the present...-->> The battery died last week, so I took it in to the shop to have it replaced. While there, I griped about my watch issues. The guy at the shop said he might be able to help. I was doubtful. Anyway, he replaced the battery cleaned the watch and...and...fixed the problem!! He apparently knew something that the other people at the shop did not know and he restored the hands to their rightful positions. He even showed me how to correct the problem in case it happens again in the future.

Although my faith is somewhat restored in the manufacturer of the watch, I'm still a little perturbed. They wanted to charge a ton of money to overhaul the watch, even though it would have been a simple matter to correct the problem. The quality of the watch may be good, but the quality of the manufacturer may not be.

Emilie and I had the joy of being introduced to The Andy Milonakis Show tonight. I didn't think Emilie was actually going to watch the whole show, but she seemed to enjoy it. I think it may be one of the funniest things on TV currently.