Timelies all!

We were short-staffed today at work. One of the other biologists took the week off to use leave. Then another biologist had an all-day virtual training thing today, which she decided to do from home. Of course we get overwhelmed with work, including getting paged at 4:05, and again while I was enroute to the first page. Bleah.

Me too! Well, at least off work for 5 days in a row

Me too! Well, 4 days in a row. But that's a lot! These three days with people being on vacation is pretty intense, though. I was hoping the retailers would also be mostly OOO and chill, but no.

I have received a mysterious package from Willams-Sonoma! It's hard to imagine it is not a coals to Newcastle situation, but I am pretty excited anyway.

The flowers to my parents today were a HIT. It seems most of their facility is locked down. A maintenance person a nurse tested positive (and some others my mother has yet to identify, she is the Harriet the Spy of that place, I swear) and the nurse was likely doing door to door temp checks and the maintenance person was replacing lightbulbs one day last week and so was in and out of several apartments.

Oh, wow. I hope they come through it unscathed

So it turns out my phone was not broken. I remembered there was a local phone/iPad fixit spot nearby, took it in, told him it wouldn't charge and he plugged it in and it started charging right up.

I should've checked my charging cable from the start.

Anyway...problem solved for a $10 cable.

Matilda and I just got back from an East Bay jaunt dropping off EM's presents and stocking. She's driving with her boyfriend up to Montana starting tomorrow, but we'll Zoom with her and Emmett on xmas eve and xmas morning.

We'll meet up with Emmett on xmas eve (in the early afternoon) in the same parking lot in Marin (midway between us) and hand off presents. I'll give him a tray of lasagna too and some cinnamon rolls to make on xmas morning that that's how we're going to roll.

After SNL shamed me for not doing a better job filling JZ's stocking I went to the local cheese shop and now she's got a Fancy Stocking With Cheese. That's very full.

now she's got a Fancy Stocking With Cheese. That's very full.

That's a quality stocking.

That all sounds excellent, Hec!

Only 9 1/3 hours work today. Yay. At least we have more bakeware to ship out, that was looking dire for a while.

The flowers to my parents today were a HIT.

Yay!

It seems most of their facility is locked down.

Boo.

she is the Harriet the Spy of that place, I swear

Hee!

I know food is my answer to everything, but what about sending them either some treat kind of thing or a restaurant dinner?

We'll meet up with Emmett on xmas eve (in the early afternoon) in the same parking lot in Marin (midway between us) and hand off presents. I'll give him a tray of lasagna too and some cinnamon rolls to make on xmas morning that that's how we're going to roll.

Aw, that's nice.

Way ahead of you Jesse, I am ordering them breakfast treats from Porto's tomorrow morning. I have 7 more days of this.

Then I'm out of ideas!