it's day five of 18 in a row workwise, most at least eight hours and a couple a little over 15. go me!

i managed to fill most of yesterday with more sleep than i've had in months, though it wasn't my plan at all - i had tonnes to get done in the afternoon and i accomplished almost none of it. that's going to make today a bit busier, but i think it'll work out in the end; i really needed all that sleep.

i decided a few days ago to try to integrate breakfast back into my daily routine. i wasn't looking for elaborate, so i thought i'd try cereal. the cereal aisle at the supermarket is daunting, there were hundreds of different shapes, colours and flavours competing for my cereal dollar, and in the last probably twenty years since i last spooned a bowl, i've forgotten what i like, if i ever liked any at all. all i knew is that i didn't want anything too heavy or complicated.

the front of a cereal package is one of the larger pieces of marketing real estate in the supermarket, there's a lot of space on each box for manufacturers to try to get the message across. i decided to buy whatever most appealed from that standpoint, with the exception of anything overly fruity or which contained marshmallows or anything gross. and yes, the marketing got me.

what better way to choose a product than by its cd rom? yup, i went for the prize in the package. general mills is giving away cd rom games in its products, different titles randomly scattered across its brands, each visible through a window on the front. i elected to get the home version of jeopardy, which landed me a great big box of nesquick. for those not up on their saturday morning cartoon commercials, it's chocolate blobs made from cornflower, with all sorts of vitamins from unknown sources added in for good measure. today was the big day, i ingested some. it's not horrible, i'm going to try to ingest some again tomorrow morning. the cd rom of jeopardy, on the other hand, is pretty awesome, very well done, the questions are plenty hard and i get to insult the host over and over in my best sean connery voice:“what, are ye some kinda pansy, trebek? i'll take the penis mightier for $200.”

just a reminder here to go see craig spinning for three hours at hush tomorrow (tuesday) night, should be hella great.

and now it's out the door for me, i'm spending the week working somewhere else. i'm thinking it's going to be challenging and fun, i just wish it wasn't two busses away. have a great day, and i'll get to the photo thing from the comments in the last post going really soon, as soon as i can come up for air.