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This morning, being in a hurry to get out and check out conditions before the general rushhour I popped myself into the local supermarket and bought a breakfast croissant; that is it holds cheese and ham. Ardent reader that I am, I pick up the packaging and check the contents:
- Cheese 30%
- Smoked ham 13%
- Croissant 56%
Mathematics tell me that 30+13+56=99. So, we have 99% accounted for, but what is the 1%? Air? Packaging? Hmmm….
Today I bought a almond croissant under the false assumption that it would taste like the one from the Farmer’s Market. I was wrong, very wrong. Instead of fresh puffed pastry with a small custardy centre laden with real almond flakes and icing sugar on top, I got an overdone croissant with icing paste with a few almond flakes. It got worse when I realised the reason for less flakes; they’d decided to short cut and put almond essence in the icing paste. “ARGH! Begone with you!” I cried, as I flung the offending pastry to the other side of the room.
Moral of the day: Assume makes and ass out of u and me … but mainly me.
I have an iPod mini, it’s small and pink, which is a rather strange colour for me to have if you know me. In the two years I have had this piece of technology I have used it for listening to music, listening to audio books, as an alarm clock and at one point for reading ebooks. Until yesterday.
To all those heavy podcast users out there, I might be slow to join the bandwagon, but at least I think I’m here to stay … for a bit. I’ve discovered podcasts. I might not be able to watch tv shows or documentaries, but I can listen to the radio stuff, which is very cool. The commute in the past 5 weeks has been lacking something since I do it empty handed. I am left to stare out of the bus and memorise the route. No more! Today I enjoyed a 40 minute snippet news and documentary on science. Super!
