more Krispy Kreme

Egads, I can't believe it's raining again. What's with this weather? If I was a parent, and a child was complaining about the rain, I'd give them the usual spiel about how the rain's good for all the growing green things bla bla bla. Sadly, however, the only growing green things around here are the feeble-looking office plants you can sometimes see in the windows of corporate high rises around here.

I faxed and e-mailed the latest round of documents for the CCRA yesterday. I've gotten tired of crossing my fingers that this audit process will end soon, so have started crossing my toes as well. People stare when I pass them on the street but hey, but I'll do anything to end this ongoing hassle.

But now to more important topics...

A breakthrough in my Krispy Kreme fantasy: Jeff says he's going to take me to a Krispy Kreme this weekend! Apparently there's an outlet somewhere in Mississauga. When it first opened, the store reportedly did $70,000 worth of sales in the first day of business. Holy cow. What exactly are IN these doughnuts to make them so popular? If I don't end up making it to the Mississauga outlet (or even if I do), Scott and Amanda have promised to take me to one when I visit them in August, yay!

Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out the fat content of Krispy Kreme doughnuts since I'd like to go into this virgin KK experience prepared. Glazed Sour Cream is my favourite doughnut, so I checked its stats.

According to the nutritional information chart provided by Krispy Kreme (the term "nutritional information" is pretty funny, don't you think?), a glazed sour cream doughnut has 280 calories, 15 grams of fat, 23 grams of sugar, and 2.2 grams of protein (Ha! Protein! Like anyone cares!!) Odd. No addictive substances listed.

In comparison, the Tim Hortons Glazed Sour Cream Glazed has 318 calories, 19 grams of fat. That surprised me; I had half-figured that Krispy Kreme products must be loaded with more fat and sugar to have such incredible appeal. Not that either is a candidate for a health-conscious award, mind you.

What I find bizarre is that Krispy Kreme (American) uses the "doughnut" spelling, while Tim Horton (Canadian) uses the "donut" spelling. What gives? I've corrected my spelling to the proper English version.

Calories or no, I must try a Krispy Kreme doughnut sometime soon. I'm sure all of you are hoping I do as well, just so I shut up about doughnuts already. :-)

Online tidbits:

The teaser trailer for Matrix Reloaded is online.

Yay, the courts have ordered ordered VeriSign to stop its deceptive advertising campaign. I got one of Verisign's "renewal notices" recently, which confused then ticked me off. If innocents DO send back the form with payment (thinking they're just renewing their domains), Verisign transfers the domains to their own service.

Today's Blatherpic:

My iBook and a cup of lemon tea at the cottage.