{"id":676,"date":"2011-11-17T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/real-quick-since-its-almost-midnight-the-coca-cola-freestyle-machine.html"},"modified":"2011-11-17T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:54:00","slug":"real-quick-since-its-almost-midnight-the-coca-cola-freestyle-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/real-quick-since-its-almost-midnight-the-coca-cola-freestyle-machine.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Quick, Since It’s Almost Midnight: The Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quickly!<\/p>\n

Dave’s 2 week checkup was yesterday.  He’s doing MUCH better now and both his neurosurgeon and primary care doctor (the military doctor who he sees more often) are both impressed with how well he’s doing!  We’re thrilled with the upward turn in his recovery compared to last weekend.  And Dave’s attitude is so great right now!<\/p>\n

Today, after Dave’s primary care appointment, we headed over to our local Moe’s<\/a> for lunch.  I hadn’t been to the Fort Walton Beach Moe’s in a couple months, so we were intrigued by this new machine there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Just so you know, I was NOT the only one taking pictures of this thing \ud83d\ude42  Dave was in uniform for his medical appointment on base.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is called the Coca-Cola Freestyle<\/a> machine, and it’s some sort of computerized machine that will give you over 100 combinations of Coke products!<\/p>\n

Want Coke?  Diet Coke?  Coke Zero?  Sprite?  Diet Sprite?  Fanta?  Fanta Zero?  You can have all that!  AND you can add flavors on the spot…Dave and I were intrigued!<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is a touch screen.  Choose first the baseline Coke product you want.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Then that product will appear with several flavor choices: cherry, orange, grape, raspberry, lemon, lime…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
And somehow it pulls it all together and dispenses it.  This was “grape Fanta Zero” and it was rather, um, BLUE.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quickly! Dave’s 2 week checkup was yesterday.  He’s doing MUCH better now and both his neurosurgeon and primary care doctor (the military doctor who he sees more often) are both impressed with how well he’s doing!  We’re thrilled with the upward turn in his recovery compared to last weekend.  And Dave’s attitude is so great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[20,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-aU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/08\/so-what-else-could-possibly-happen-to-us-here-in-ne.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":0},"title":"So What Else Could POSSIBLY Happen to Us Here in NE?","date":"22 August 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Dave went to the emergency room at about 4pm Wednesday with pains near his appendix. After a CT scan at 7pm, it was inconclusive whether it was really appendicitis, but Dave and the doctor made the decision at about 8:30pm to perform a \"laproscopic appendectomy\" Wednesday night. The surgeon (an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":473,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/10\/3-times-in-26-months.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":1},"title":"3 Times in 26 Months!","date":"14 October 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, let's all sing along (to the tune of Gene Autry's \"Back in the Saddle Again\"):I'm back in the O.R. againOut under anesthesia, which I dread....Where doctors take their knivesOn what remains of my G.I.Back in the O.R. againI'm writing this corny little song from the surgery waiting room at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SHbB9hoN7JI\/AAAAAAAASsA\/rqWQ5bOiGXk\/s400\/IMG_2720.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":159,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/06\/about-to-explode.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":2},"title":"About to Explode","date":"08 June 08","format":false,"excerpt":"No...not me. My poor husband.He's at T-6 days and counting till his PhD dissertation defense. I won't even TRY to explain what he's up to, but let me just refer you here if you also have a 100lb. brain and would like to learn more. He last updated the homepage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dear husband\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":74,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day-ii-patricia-and-dave-the-early-days.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":3},"title":"Happy Valentine’s Day II: Patricia and Dave, the early days.","date":"14 February 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Enjoy this photo from one of our earliest outings, my AFROTC Military Ball in Spring 1994. Made the dress myself! I miss sewing. Will need to talk about that sometime.More importantly, check out the brillo pad on my Dave's head! Once he came on active duty he's kept it so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dear husband\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":589,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/06\/happy-belated-fathers-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":4},"title":"Happy Belated Father’s Day!","date":"20 June 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Belated Father's Day to any of my Dad readers! \u00a0We were happy to get to spend time with Dave's Dad early in the day at Dave's family reunion in Pennsylvania, then we drove down to my parents' house in West Virginia in time for dinner with my Dad. Earlier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-RmP52g4aKw0\/Tf-YB1BEpLI\/AAAAAAABWzk\/CmFBGyihTFg\/s400\/Dave_layout.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":619,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/florida-discoveries-15-great-blue-heron-in-action.html","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":5},"title":"Florida Discoveries 15: Great Blue Heron in Action!","date":"24 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all, I learned that it's \"heron\" and not \"huron\". \u00a0Oops. \u00a0I was wondering why my Google searches kept directing me to Michigan-related websites...Last night Dave and I went on a good old fashioned DATE! \u00a0The kids are visiting grandparents in the northeast through next weekend, and even though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"bird watching\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mcyQ5xOEAb8\/TiuZJ8eMNLI\/AAAAAAABYho\/kqhim4UZw7U\/s640\/IMG_5340.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}