My work schedule down here in Sydney is very morning centric, due to the fact that there are all these American friends and colleagues with whom I keep in touch with, and my beginning of the day is the end of theirs. With this comes an odd dichotomy of morning calm and afternoon zany. A good example of this, in fact, came to me this morning, when I got instant messaged the following video, made in Brooklyn, by two of my friends who spent the day indoors, avoiding the cold.

Yup, this is how I start my day sometimes.

Tonight, I am off to eat $35 burritos. Technically, I am going to a full Mexican buffet, but still in US dollars, this will cost me $27.43. Or in Mexico, that would be 300.49 pesos. All that, plus, I am betting that drinks are not included.

Today, good friend plus birthday equals extortion.

Do you know the worst thing? I've been to this place before, for another birthday, and the food is not even that good. Mexican food may be exotic here in Australia—Thai is the equivalent of Mexican in these parts—but at a certain price point, I would expect that the chef could figure out how to cook a burrito. I mean really, they are only made out of beans, affordable meats, and industrial cheese in the first place. Let me put it this way, for $35, I could eat my self to nausea with top end sushi. How does bluefin tuna toro nigiri sound?

The profit margins this restaurant is getting tonight caused today's post. Take me to Taco Cabana and I can get you a far better meal for under ten dollars. Heck, take me to my kitchen, and I can fix you up.

I'll have the chips, please.