Wayne D's Blog

A while ago I wrote about emusic.com an online service that lets you download forty mp3's a month for $9.99. I've been procrastinating about downloading my songs and last month I don't think I downloaded anything. I decided that perhaps I had run out of artists who's music I wanted to download from emusic. This month I decided I was going to do my best to find forty songs I wanted and then I was going to cancel my subscription. I gritted my teeth, determined to find forty songs if it killed me. Before I knew it I had went off on a tangent and found music from artists other than the ones I originally went searching for, downloaded my forty songs and bookmarked three albums for next month. This month's artists and albums were:

• Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound
• Darol Anger - Generation Nation
• Swing Out Sister - Live
• The Wailin' Jennys - Firecraker

On the list for next month:

• Flamenco Caravan - Loves Philosophy
• Darol Anger - Diary of Fiddler
• Pete Seger Sings Woodie Guthrie

A week or so ago we received a few small samples of Nutella spread in the mail. I decided to try it out on my Saturday morning toast. I found it a bit sweet for my taste. When I chekced the label it said hazelnut spread but the first ingredient was sugar and the second ingredient was peanut oil. I guess if they called it sugar spread people might not buy it so readily. When I checked the peanut butter bottle the fourth ingredient was sugar. Of course it isn't that easy, it's not all about sugar. The peanut butter is slightly higher in calories per gram and about double the fat per gram, higher in sodium but about three times lower in carbohydrates per gram. I guess it depends on whether you want to get your calories from sugar or fat. Maybe I'll switch to honey, it's lower in calories than both of them.