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[caption id="attachment_10174" align="alignnone" width="497"] Pretty... cold. The sun blazed as a light through a block of ice today.[/caption]

As office workers in Fairview picked up their morning take-away they could be assured their steaming hot double-doubles would be closer to iced coffees by the time they sat down in their cubicles.

Vancouver is experiencing a novel patch of cold, dry, winter and Vacouverites appear to be enjoying it. They've certainly taken to wind chill like ducks to ice water.

There are signs of another price increase coming to the McDonald's Canada menu. In fact one such sign is sitting on the counter of the location I frequent on Broadway Avenue around the corner from South Granville Street.

From what McDonald's staff have told me, the price of all drip coffee sizes: small, medium and large, will be increasing by 20 cents early in the new year.

The latest member of  the Waves Coffee family finished preparing my dark mocha, and presented it to me with the caveat that she wasn't Kiran, the barista who bears up so well under the weight of her latte art brilliance. The newbie barista explained she tried to draw a face, but, it would be more accurate next time. ... Accurate?



Oh... my... Accurate as in portrait? She got the hair, and the palsy sneer of the mouth, but couldn't do the teeth (just as well), or the glasses -- coffee isn't a high resolution medium after all, Guess she left out the jughead ears out of kindness. Click the image to enlarge.