I just had lunch at my favorite (Ethiopian) restaurant by myself. The waitress either remembers me or does a really good impression of it, which is surprising since I probably only eat there a couple times a year at most.

Anyway, a nice dinner's worth of leftovers taken home now.

Your eyes are very striking, Theo. I bet she does remember you.

Alas, Beresheet crashed about 150 km from the Moon's surface. Nevertheless, it's an amazing achievement.

Successfully orbiting the moon is pretty good! And, I would say, it probably did land on the moon just not still working and in one piece.

Am now craving Ethiopian food.

Yeah, that's the word.

Edited: hold on. My earlier post about 150 km? I got it from the last telemetry data, so it was wrong. 5 kilometers. We got 5 kilometers from the moon before crashing. That's incredible. Last picture here: [link]

Timelies all!

We set off early tomorrow for Toronto for FKO. Which means I have to pack for myself and for Mr. S, as Gary gets home late tonight. Which I suppose is better than last year, when he met us there, and I drove the whole way. Still, I'm tired.

It definitely sucks to have lost my job, but I do not envy the people who are left. I wonder how the 7AM meeting went this morning without my manager. I wonder if my former grand-manager, who is now in charge of the team, attended the meeting. I wonder if anyone is going to be working on what they were working before.

Yeah, I can't imagine that got *better*

Friday! My first laugh from the morning from one of my newsletters.

Late-night comedy: Seth Meyers had some advice for Michael Avenatti: "When you rip people off you gotta play it cool with the money. You're like the guy who buys a Ferrari and asks for the vanity plate 'BNK RBBR.' "