Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

OTOH, milk was super cheap today. Also bought a cheese platter, which is out of character for me but it looked good.

meal ingredient kits have gone too far. Today in the grocery store I saw a cardboard box containing plastic wrapped ingredients that you can assemble yourself at home to make...

a sandwich.

For half as much money you can buy an already assembled sandwich with a lot less packing material or for not much difference in price you could buy separately packed ingredients for several sandwiches.

I love the junk mail that says, "you could save $x on y" where x is considerably more than I currently spend on y. (they're never really offering to pay me to go with them)

Someone wanted to take money out of the tip jar to pay for their drink. WTF is wrong with people that they'd think that's cool. The attempt was prevented, but seriously, that's messed up.

While there's no natural disaster to explain this outage, I've seen this before in hurricane aftermath. Lights are on in that bar/restaurant, let's go there, and you end up with everybody in town at the Applebee's or something.

I heard the shop got a sales boost this morning because half of the rest of the city was without power.

Received and read the class feedback forms now that those have been scanned and sent to me. I have no idea what this (see image) means but I'm going to take it as a positive. Overall feedback was highly positive and people seem to think they're going to get use out of what they learned.

The cat still likes me.

Retrieved the cat. She's just finished looking around the house and is now requesting cuddles.

Made it home. I took a small nap at a rest stop to recover enough for the last couple hours of driving. Now I need some sleep.

Refueling break. Both the car and the belly.

Having lunch with Prav in Atlanta. We did an origin trip together many years back and he regularly makes the long flight from New Zealand for events.

Spoon

Have been paid for the teaching. Usually have to wait for the check. Was also given a nice spoon.

Finished teaching classes. I haven't looked closely at the feedback forms (those will get scanned and I'll read them after that) but from what I've seen I have met or exceeded expectations.

Lunch today had a crossword puzzle challenge. Two of the prize winners got answers from me and one of them gave me the shirt from the prize so I now have a new Roast Magazine shirt.

I have a full set of station instructors for tomorrow's classes. I had a plan B if that wasn't true but I'm glad that wasn't needed.