I did notice that after only 2 days, my starter had some decent looking bubbles. Not in the very near future, but mebbe in the summer, I’ll do a 2 day version, then straight into a bowl with flour, salt, and water for overnight proofing.
My mom says back in The Old Country, they kept a small, dry block of starter for making dough. I have shamed my ancestors. 
You know for the pictures they prolly used photoshop, makeup, lighting, Vaseline on the lens, etc.
Blah. Not angry, fits here. Just annoyed.
We had an elderly acquaintance who was going to take us on vacation to Alaska this spring as thanks for the times I’ve cared for him. Was really looking forward to it.
Very understandably, he needs to get an important surgery just before the trip and needs to recover during it. It’s canceled now, and I don’t expect it rescheduled. The guy probably has more like months left than years.
Zero anger at him. Alaska isn’t necessarily on our bucket list so it may never happen. But we’re going to split up and use the planned PTO. One, we’ll paint a couple of rooms and take apart/put together our old/new bedroom furniture. Two, we’ll do a road-trip. Visit some friends and maybe family who are hours away. One couple has a baby we haven’t seen yet. I really need a vacation.
Then take one. Like, wake up to the realization that you’re an actuary, you busted your ass to get here, the reward is an office job and decent income, and the ability to take a break when you need one. Talk to the spouse this morning, pick a time and a place in the immediate future,like in 2 weeks, go into work this morning. I triple dawg dare you. Don’t gimme any bullshit about you have work to do that’s so important that the company can’t continue :).
If it’s any consolation, my son is booking (and apparently paying for) a trip for us to Alaska next year. Guess I won’t see you there.
I hear you. It’s a bit harder in practice. I shouldn’t publicly speak about company woes, but in my solo position, Actuarial is 100% at a standstill when I’m not doing the work, and we’ve been in a stressful, dynamic situation as I tame the flaming piles of shit left behind.
(Did you know, if the numbers don’t reconcile, but consultants 0 over the reconciliations, then the numbers reconcile? The CFO isn’t going to check it after all.)
Feels like every week I’m just trying to get back to the thing I needed to finish last week.
Either way, I’m casually interviewing where interested.
Only because you need to get over the high bar of knowing that your family and personal life actually takes priority. That’s the hard part. And I don’t say that facetiously.
I had a few incidents when I was younger that taught me the ability to say FU to work without caring even a little bit. Company going to fall apart? Stuff not getting done? I don’t really give a crap about any of that. I’m going fishing. Good luck everybody.
Presently, “family” is only my spouse, excluding the pick-up kid who’s about to graduate college.
This has been very on my mind as we look to adopt next year. Thus, why I’m interviewing.
Vacations are for suckers.
I think @BG5150 has an alert for whenever a poster mentions “vacation” or “travel” on here.
It should be. It’s way more scenic than you expect.
Not really annoyed, since difference inconsequential. But at exactly the same time, next to each ofter in the same room, Accuweather tells me the temperature (outside) is 70 with a real feel of 70, and my wife that it is 69 with a real feel of 67. WTF?
“hey, we’ve got 5 minutes left scheduled for this. I have a hard stop then, so can we wrap it up in the next 3? If not, let’s continue the discussion tomorrow.”
Currently, I rarely have hard stops, so I don’t get to practice this, but in past experiences this has worked.
Meetings that are going way longer than warranted by the importance of the topic make me magically spawn hard stops.
I’ve seen the same thing with my wife and me.
Who’s gonna know if you have a hard stop of not? Just call it that way.
I got some lab work done today for a study I’m participating in. The needle stick really hurt! Those needles are usually pretty small and don’t hurt as bad as a blood donation, but not this time. It still kind of burns a half hour later.
A friend just posted on FB about her wildly successful first attempt at sourdough. While I’m happy for her, I am still annoy at my failed experiment. 
I promise my first attempt was worse than yours. Can’t even get a knife through the crust.
We’re just tools of the Military/Industrial/Sourdough Complex. 
I bought a couple of sourdough mini loaves at a nearby grocery store the other day.