Waffles and the psychic flux of enjoyment

Okay, maybe this is really stretching it here, but I don’t think so. According to Herman Daly, the economic process is based on converting materials (natural resources) from low entropy states to high entropy states for consumption to improve or maintain people’s psychic flux of enjoyment.

Well, I am doing a lot of work on my own consumption habits and psychic flux of enjoyment, most recently in the brunch area. My family has always been into going out for breakfast, which in my teen years, turned into brunch (since I didn’t get up). During my 6 years in Montreal, brunch was never such a stretch because it is so cheap and good, so my psychic flux of enjoyment per dollar spent was fairly good. Upon my return to Toronto, however, I found that a) my favourite brunch neighbourhood, i.e. Roncesvalles where I started out as an 8 pound babe in the 70s, had been taken over by hip people, and b) prices are waaaaayyyy up across Toronto, and c) brunch spots in Toronto do not last long in their initial state of enjoyableness. As soon as you get sucked in to one spot in this city, a combination of a) the price goes up (by to $2 to $4), b) the portions go down, c) the quality goes down, d) the line gets longer, which I had not really encountered in Montreal. Recently, sadly in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood I encountered e) LINE UP RULES! I was not allowed to sit down and wait for my friend, I had to stand at the door until my friend arrived in the flesh before being seated. The explanation was so that they could make a living, I suppose so that their psychic flux of enjoyment could be increased. Too many rules before coffee makes for much confusion and frustration and lowered levels of my own PFE.

This event made me realize that my psychic flux of enjoyment of brunch in Toronto per dollar spent on brunch is decreasing weekendly. I decided that I have to stay home from now on, because if I don’t spent an exorbitant amount of cash on brunch, my psychic flux of enjoyment will increase (especially per dollar) and my consumption will decrease. After some long and hard thinking, I realized that a waffle maker is exactly what I need at home to make this plan work. So I checked craigslist, and KAPOW! I scored a belgian waffle maker for 10 bucks! It works really well. So now I am officially done with snooty brunch, and it is officially always brunch at my place, where it is chill, chill, chill. So come out to Casa Chrysalids for waffles and coffee anytime, where your psychic flux of enjoyment is going to be high, high, high.