Refracted Neurons

I am a very picky eater. However, I love Starbucks' cinnamon rolls.  Apparently, so does everyone else because three quarters of the time I try to buy one and they're all out.  Here's how the conversation goes: Me: Do you have any cinnamon rolls? Overly Cheerful Barista: Oh, no.  Sorry, sold out.  How about a pumpkin cinnamon scone or a slice of non-fat cinnamon pound cake? Me: (looking disgusted) No, no, no!  Really, that's okay! Honestly, I find the rest of their pastries overly pretentious and the rest of their food not very good either.  So here's the question: if you make something really fabulous that sells out every day, why not make more of it and earn better profits?  Why only stock a specific number of cinnamon rolls?  Is it a franchise specification? Also, why don't independent/no slave labor/shade grown/fair trade coffee shops sell cinnamon rolls?  They always have tofu doughnuts and mafia muffins (heavy as cement shoes...

I kept seeing this purple blob in one of my outdoor planters.  The winter has been so hard, there was no way it could be what my intuition was telling me it was.  "It's a flower," said my intuition, "a purple flower, a pansy." "That's ridiculous," said my logic, "it's a tag from one of the winter blooming pansies that died last spring from too much sun." I went out and looked and it was a purple pansy.  I think the reason I grow plants is because they never fail to remind me how tenacious life is.