Hm, maybe I'll get that for whoever I draw, depending on who it is...

I would love a $10 gift certificate for either of the two places I usually get my lunch. I will be buying Starbucks gift certificates for my direct reports -- is $10 enough for that?

I would think so. That's at least a couple of fancy drinks, right?

Should be, I guess? I know it's just a token gift, but I also think it can be awkward to get a big gift from your boss. Or is that just me and the silk blouse I got one time? (I loved the blouse, actually, but it was SO WEIRD as a present from my boss!)

I think I would find a personal gift like that a little weird. My boss usually gives us $40 or $50, but in cash or GC. The only time I got a personal gift (a top as well) from a boss, we were a really tiny place (like 4 or 5 of us, total), and even then it was a teensy bit awkward.

I would lean toward twentyish for the direct reports, but I think that may be part of ATM brainwashing to think of $20 as being the standard for everything.

Plei, I have come to the conclusion that the recruiters in our area (geographic and industry) are just ... kinda meh. There are so many candidates for any particular position that they can just haphazardly throw people at job openings and not do much else.

Yeah, pretty much.

At this point, I wish I had a ghost writer for cover letters. Life would be so much simpler if they just wrote themselves.

I would lean toward twentyish for the direct reports, but I think that may be part of ATM brainwashing to think of $20 as being the standard for everything.

Yeah, that's fair. I don't want it to seem like nothing, but also not like I think it's Significant, you know?

$20 is enough to get a nice-not-cheap dinner.

Took Chumley to the V E T, vet tested his blood sugar twice and it was 114-116. Perhaps the cat is trying to gaslight me. But he got a urine sample and blood for testing, so we will see. He IS down .75 lb since his visit in October, so that may be significant.

Next, I'm off to a practical interview for Instacart where I do a shopping exercize for a trainer.

Hard to imagine I've spent months of days where nothing much happened. Suddenly everything is happening at once.

I lugged my last bag of change to the Coinstar machine. It was a giant bag of pennies. Over a thousand pennies. Now I can check that off on my To Do list and not let the penny situation happen again.

Last summer I gathered up all my change I had laying about and ended up with $200. (It took five years to accumulate.)