Blurred Buggy

You can't quite tell - but that's an orange hourglass on a big scary spider, a Brown Widow, which has made our kitchen window her home.

I'm sure my Australian readers, dealing as they do with a myriad of poisonous critters on a daily basis ("Oh dear. Poison scorpions in the breakfast cereal again - ah well, they are crunchy and full of protein, after all.") will chuckle at the idea, but Cindy is a bit rattled at the arrival of this uninvited guest, and has made several complaints to the office. They have politely ignored her.

I've offered to take care of the little critter, but she'll hear nothing of it. She's named her Fred(rica) and almost seems to enjoy keeping a daily eye on Fred - at least this way she knows where she is. Until of course, Fred has thousands of babies...

Where's my prize??

The cat litter had been disturbed from its usual smooth-topped config.

I shook the litter box back and forth three or four times.

Nothing!

"Where's my prize?!" I grumbled, as if I were shaking a box of Cap'n Crunch.

A voice inside me said 'What did you say?'

"Yeah, I know. Weird, right?" I responded.

I never liked Cap'n Crunch, even as a kid - but the Cap'n always seemed to have the best prizes, as if to taunt me.

100% RDA of essential Althaea extract

Is it possible that kid's breakfast cereal is actually getting less healthy than it was in the 70's?
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I remember when the commercials would wrap from the cartoon critter scampering lustfully after the children and their sweet and crunchy cargo to a shot of the cereal in a best-case scenario still-life shot.

The voiceover would say "Part of this complete breakfast!" - the table would be laden with eggs, bacon, pancakes, bagels, nine pounds of fruit, a mountain of brussels sprouts, and a cheerful half gallon of hummus.

A few years later, the voiceover had changed to "Part of this nutritious breakfast!"

Yesterday, I heard the latest version: "Part of this breakfast!"

What's next? "Could be considered food."
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