Impossible. The beeping alarm sounds at least 3 hours too soon. No possible way it could already be 6:40am. But, alas, it is. Welcome to Monday morning. I rise and begin the daily routine: make the coffee, take a shower, check the weather, get some breakfast… This is the morning agenda. It unfolds this way because the repetition requires little thought from someone not known as a “morning person”. Any deviation from the routine can prove problematic.
Therefore when I tip the cereal box and only a few errant flakes fall into the bowl, the whole morning comes to a halt. My brain does not think of alternatives. It does not consider the full bag of bread and toaster oven just to my right. It does not remember that an apple also serves as breakfast when in a pinch. It only perceives the nearly empty bowl.
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A question I have received often over the past weeks is in regards to installing Photoshop Elements, the software packaged with the READ CD Box Set. I can imagine these READ CD users, poised at their computers, ready to create READ posters, the folder opened to install Photoshop, only to find they have no cereal. Serial. The serial number! A serial number is required to install Photoshop Elements?? Where is it?!
That much-needed number is on page 3 of the Getting Started Guide. And indeed knowing where the cereal/serial is, helps with getting started in the morning. 