I'm irritated that it turns out that "immediate shipping" means that the company will immediately send the package to its "shipping partner" in California, where it will lounge around for four days before being given to USPS.

That's a crappy definition of "immediate", Ginger.

I made a mistake. It occurred to me that I understood how to do the individual steps that should lead to homemade mac and cheese (make a light roux, fold in cheese, etc.), as well as all the ingredients, including shredded cheese. So I made it, and it was both easy and delicious. This is knowledge I should not have.

That is knowledge I also should not have, Calli.

Let me clarify. I don't have it. But I may have it soon.

It is dangerous knowledge, Calli.

With our year end processing, corporate decided to change how we access historic data. I have been in query hell for the last two days but I finally found an UGLY solution to get the data I need.

I refuse to go through the UGLY process every week, so I now that I know where to grab what, I get to come up with a cleaner process that can be replicated by folks who do not have good query skills. Joy!!!

At one point in the process, I was utterly frustrated and sent a detailed message to my boss and my boss's boss explaining the situation, what I'd tried, where I was stuck and asked for help. My boss's boss's response? "I know the situation is in good hands with you working on it. Good luck." Ummm, thanks for having faith in me, but I'm about to set everything on fire, dude.

From the local Facebook sale group, with is sometimes more entertaining than you'd think.

For Sale: Printer. Broken. Couldn't tell you if its a paper jam or totally mangled.... Likely somewhere in between. In a moment of sickening, bourgeois excess we just up and bought a new one instead of figuring it out.

I probably just stepped in it in an online cancer group. In one post, I pointed out that gluten is only bad for people with a demonstrated intolerance and there's nothing inherently bad about GMO foods. I snapped after one woman said to stay away from soy sauce because it was "full of gluten." The ingredients in soy sauce are water, soybeans, salt and wheat, in that order. After fermentation, the wheat is undetectable in many soy sauces. Besides, I don't think anyone is going to sneak behind the barn and down a bottle of soy sauce.

Mmm, mac and cheese.

Ginger, just so you know, moving anything round California right now is super slow because port issues are creating trucking issues and it's all a big mess. So possibly there were four days of getting to the shipping partner, depending on how it was going. At least that appears to be the case based on all my shipments going to Colombia and Costa Rica that are stuck in our warehouse unable to get to port.

BUT my day and half of meetings is OVER and they were productive and enlightening so yay. And I am not going into the office for two hours. I will check my e-mail in case there's something that I REALLY need to do, but otherwise it's the weekend. And I got fed lunch, and it was only a little off my diet.

ION, my Box o' Meat is now being delivered to me by UPS (instead of being delivered to a brewery in the next county where I would pick it up) and that has eroded a significant amount of the warm fuzzies I was getting from having a Meat CSA. Also, "subscribing" is one month at a time, for one delivery a month, so, I dunno.

In one post, I pointed out that gluten is only bad for people with a demonstrated intolerance and there's nothing inherently bad about GMO foods.

Yeah, but everyone knows you're just a shill for Big Gluten. Open your eyes, sheeple!

Yes, Monsanto told me to write that.

I'm reading a recipe for Pork and Udon Soup, and the first commenter says, "To cut carbs, I left out the noodles...." So that would make it just Pork Soup.

I am clearly in a Mood.

But did they pay you to write it?