So I found the equivalent of an extra life or a hidden level in the video game that is the Budget Blankets website.  I clicked the• Promotional travel Accessories icon, and the water bottles were all consolidated down on one page.  There are four!  A careful search of the All products page left me disoriented and thinking that I lacked the strength to stand, so I closed the window and began to write about the only water bottle I saw. 

The experience demonstates how fallible vision is!  It has been submitted that one sees, much more than one is able to see.  Our eyes take in more information that we have the capability of remembering or even processing into short term memory.  In other words, the mind snaps hundreds of photos a minute, many are quickly scanned, then discarded.  The information contained in these photos gone, the brain is left with the sense of never having seen their contents, leading some to conclude that the snapshots of that moment be the same as the moment or minute before.  One can honestly deny having seen almost anything, as if it never existed, based on their add lib, fill in the blank memory. 

I do not remember what the XC-8000 looks like exactly, but it will not quickly fade from my memory.  I remember mainly sound, the sound of trying to drain its liquid contents through the flip up straw, and hearing the air coursing through along with the water.  They should call this the venturi effect water bottle, because it aerates your water for you with just the force of drawing the water from the stainless steel container.  Good seal, no leaks, rugged construction, holds an impressive volume of water, (about one swig more than the curvy) all this for the slow drinker.

The curvy water bottle has a distinct shape to the lid that must have a very specific feature that just hasn't dawned on me yet.  Can you open bottles with it?  Break the glass of your automobile in an emergency?  Upon further review more will be revealed, thanks for tuning in!  Coffee mugs tomorrow!