Imbalance

Before I start off raving, and ranting, about Burnout: Revenge I must point you to an article which was very fun for me to read. Clickez ici sil-vous-plaît. Nothing special, you'd say, apart from the fact that at the bottom of the article, amidst of all those European cities everyone has heard of is my town. Yes, that Dutch city. What's even more ironic is that I know how incredibly dull and small this city looks compared to the others, and how extremely not centrally it is situated. This must be the first time my town got featured on GS, though.

Enfin, last week I delivered on the promise I had made to myself to buy Burnout: Revenge. I bought it and I'm enjoying it....on and off. The thing is, I'm very good at Burnout, or that's what I'm telling myself at least. The game is hellishly easy. Every event I blaze through and I'm perfecting it in one try. Maybe two or three at best if I get unlucky for some reason. However, the Burning Lap and Preview events they put in the game...Those are insanely hard.

In these events you have to race against the clock. The clock has been set rather sharply in order to perfect the events with a gold medal, though. In fact, you have to boost all the way over the track, get all the shortcuts and you're not allowed to crash in the process. A lot of these events take me well over an hour to perfect....Of course I'm not settling for silver medals. It's pretty tough to know that of the 6 or 7 hours I've invested in the game so far more than 5 have been dedicated to these two types of events. Gah.

Good Nutrition

Apart from gaming and smoking I have another, rather unusual addiction. It's bread. Yes, the sometimes swampy and damp slices of dough and grain.

I've been told that in the US (and practically the rest of the world) you can choose out of three or four kinds of bread. All of my friends who've been abroad complain about how little choice you have when it comes to bread. One thing that I like about supermarkets here is that a good supermarket lets you choose out of 30+ types of bread. There's the common bread, white bread, dark bread, dark bread with extra grains, bread with corn, bread with sunflower seeds, bread with dark seeds, bread with sundried tomatoes and garlic, sugared bread, bread with raisins, black bread (completely made of rye), bread with cocunut, bread with some flour still on it, almond bread....I could go on and on.

I like all of them, but mostly I prefer the darker kinds of bread, especially since white and common bread have low nutritional value. Darker bread is chockfull of grains. It's also typically Dutch (and very much like me, too) to put all kinds of things on bread. Meat, fish, cheese, chocolate sprinkles, sometimes even cookies etc. etc.

Well, I'm absolutely addicted to this stuff. I eat 4 to 5 times a day. Bread in the morning, bread in the afternoon (often twice), dinner at night and late at night more bread. In case you're wondering where the variation is: With so many different kinds of bread there's a world of variation.

And saying that gamers live unhealthy is not true. At least, I'm not. I know most people prefer Coca Cola (yes, I'm in the Coca Cola camp, I hate Pepsi) and a bag of salts while gaming, but I've been at the point where I discarded my bag of salts to make myself some bread with apple juice more than once now.

Bread is my fuel. I love it.