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Since finding out that I had food stamp benefits again on July 5, I have already spent half a month's worth of them. What's frightening is how easy that is. I haven't even been splurging all that much... okay, the canned Indian food and octopi weren't strictly necessary, but I also bought things like olive oil, honey, beans (on sale even), natural peanut butter (peanuts, salt, nothing else), and lots & lots of fresh fruit. You know I'd have spent less money if I were eating the Standard American Diet of no fresh produce and way too much junk food.

Speaking of junk food, I did buy a (sale-priced) U-No Candy Bar. Any of you ever eat one of these? The ingredients list is refreshingly free of partially-hydrogenated oils--that coconut oil and that palm kernel oil are fully hydrogenated, baby! No high-fructose corn syrup either, just good old-fashioned fat, sugar, and artificial flavoring. [Edit: "It’s just not a bar I can recommend to those who aren’t already terminally ill." ::snerk::] It's interesting to read the stories on that site I linked to, people with fond memories of this candy bar I never ate before today. Pity the candy itself tastes strange and insufficiently chocolatey.

The weather's delightfully mild for a DC summer and I didn't mind the walk home at all, but a neighbor looked upon me with great pity when she discovered I'd come all the way home from the grocery store on foot. Silly thing is she looked like someone who thinks it makes sense to pay money to get all your exercise at the gym.

Saw another big tree by the road today, too scored by saws to make ring-counting easy but clearly well over a hundred years old and possibly closer to two hundred. I grew up in a neighborhood where the oldest trees are maybe eight years older than I am, so the lovely old trees we have around here still thrill me (even the ones that fell over in the storm and knocked out our power).

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Uno used to be my mother's favorite candy bar.

The texture is nice, at least if you don't have a problem with oiliness, but I was pretty disappointed by the flavor. On the plus side, I have now eaten all the saturated fat I need for the day. :-)

Hmmm I wonder if the quality has gone down, or it was my mother's nostalgia talking?

Tell your arteries to enjoy the extra insulation.

The candy isn't made by the original company, so quality could have gone down. It could also be nostalgia. Then again, the bar's texture is a good one--and in an era when you couldn't buy truffles at every corner store or bookshop like you can now, the texture alone probably seemed like heaven. And the candy has enough sugar to satisfy a sweet tooth without being incredibly cloying, with just a touch of salt to surprise you every once in a while. The candy didn't taste enough like chocolate to me, but not everyone with a sweet tooth is a real chocoholic.

My arteries have no comment for now. I think they're plotting an insurrection (or something).

birds and a distant lawnmower

I like that for a title or a writing prompt

So whatcha writing, UN?

This week I'm working on some scripts for DungeonMaster, a treatment for a comic book, and I've started re-writing some old material.

For the prompt, I don't know yet, and will come back to it after Pirates tonight.

i live in the land of Florida suburban housing developments, so old trees are magnificent treasures to me and objects of my awe.

Yeah, old trees just have something special about them. I'm so happy to be able to be around them every day.