Friday Family Feast — The Tugboat

My fall busy season seems to have snuck up on me. With no trip to STL there isn’t the same process and suddenly I’m in the thick of it with little fanfare. Soybean meetings all week and now switching over to corn in the near future. Things are getting hectic. I’ve been trying and succeeding to be an early to bed, early to rise person. It seems the company systems work faster early in the morning than later in the evening. Early to rise means I have time to do a few things before work which is different. I’ve deflated some of the breakfast ritual when I bother to make it. I’m trying for maximum efficiency and minimum savouring. Today I created and crushed two breakfast bullets. Still off coffee but fearing in the coming weeks I’ll slink back to that cruel mistress. Work started ahead of eight again and I was grumpy to start the day. Started off with an important call then a short one with a smaller team to confirm that proper direction was being taken. Then the big corn call started. It was scheduled to run from eleven until seven. The plan was to discuss all the product between the 105RM test and the 70RM test. That is hundreds of hybrids. After the first RM set we stopped for a thirty minute lunch and then hammered through the rest. Luckily we finished early, just ahead of six, the time scheduled for our fortnightly family feast. This week was the recipe I chose. Meat Lovers Stuffed Peppers. Sausage, pepperoni, marinara sauce and mozzarella. Well that was the recipe anyways…..

You can see that some people are cheese on the bottom pizza makers and some are cheese on the top. Parents used the blue and beige stone plate. Sister in America used the dark blue plate. Norther Ontario sister used a black plate and made four and my own was four peppers on a white plate. Just so we all can see who is who. Some of ya did dishes right after and we kept on chatting and then all moved to other rooms and kept on chatting more. The Big T had a few cocktails in him and was chattier than usual. The call lasted two full hours. I started playing my MSC challenges while we talked. I was able to stream them on Twitch again with no issue. I told my family I was doing that and they thought I was a fool of some sort. Once I wrapped that up I retired for the evening with some YouTube. Asleep ahead of ten again.