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Let's muse about clothing for a while.

Today: Socks

There was a time when I only made sure that I was wearing one sock on each foot. I just threw the washed socks into a bucket and pulled out two of them every morning. I figured: if someone makes the effort to find out what kind of socks I was wearing beneath way too long pants, I better give them something to think about. Today, a couple of years later, I only own black, grey and white socks. So I could have three buckets. But I rather keep them sorted.

That's enough musing for today.

Let's muse about food for a while. Today: Milk.

In germany, there is a big buzz about the price-increase of dairy products.

Some products like butter cost uo to 100% more, icrecream costs 20 cents more, a colleague tells me. "Because the milk is more expensive." Some would argue that the price of milk makes up only for 1/3rd of the products price, such an increase would therefore be burglary.

The cowfarmers deserve more money, so others claim. 26 Cents per litre is not enough. How about I buy directly from the farmer for, say 50 Cents a litre. Resulting in him earning almost twice as much while I would be paying almost half. That sounds like a good deal to me.

I must investigate this when I return from the USA in September.

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My second visit to the USA will bring me to San Francisco tomorrow afternoon, where I will be picked up by a friend of mine. He will drive me down to Santa Cruz where we will make last preparations to travel to Burning Man 2007.

This is me, prior to the trip, by the way. Picture was made with a Panasonic DMC-LS75. Probably one of the shittier cams out there, but it runs on regular batteries and the price is kind of ok for it to go all dusty and stuff. Didn't want to ruin my new Samsung NV10 out there in the desert.

When I return, if I return, I will try and assume the same pose and do an "after" picture. We'll see how that turns out.

Ok. Me: Gone until 9/11/2007