Past Revisited

The title might feel a bit dramatic based on the thumbnail but bear with me, I’ll pull the strings together and we’ll make some sense out of this, I’ll get the knot tied for you. So the obvious example might be the breakfast samidge. With the sausage rounds coming back into my realm, I’m able to make the best version I can do of the breakfast bullet. I’d like to attempt it with the famous hollandaise cheese that Two Glasses of Wine once gifted me but that doesn’t exactly exist anymore so this is what I’ve got. Quick sidebar, the machine functions best with large sized eggs, I’ve made it my mission to only target large sized eggs for this exact reason. The packaging says large but they are definitely acting like XL eggs. The only other possibility is that the muffin top is bigger. I cut lower now to accomodate for the height of the sausage round. Am I over thinking it? So that is one way that what was old is new again. But that’s not all, something else happened today that is a return voyage to an earlier page from the chronicles of the Tugboat.

About ten or more years ago, maybe less actually, there was another health crisis. This one wasn’t a global pandemic but it was pretty serious on a more local level. I’m not talking about SARS, that was for sure more than ten years ago. I’m talking about the H1N1 swince flu epidemic/outbreak of 2009. Oh, 2009, so it was more than ten years ago, good to know. This allegedly started in Veracruz, Mexico and came to party in Canada. The linked page says that 10% of the population were infected, some 3.5M people. That feels excessive based on the provincial numbers. Anyways, bad flu was zipping around for a couple of years and our safety team at work got us some sanitizer, some gloves, an extra first aid kit, an emergency weather radio, and a thermometer. Maybe some other stuff, it was ten years ago! I do know for sure we got a thermometer because I still have and use it, that part will become relevant lower down. Also of note, that was the thermometer used in my episode of how to beat any fever in a matter of hours. Comment below if you want that crack pot theory explained. The history repeats itself bit is that work sent some more items to help keep me safe, feast your senses on these.

Before you get saucy, the mask covers what it needs to. It will be effective. I won’t rant about masks on this post but eventually I’m going to. It doesn’t protect you, it helps, along with other actions, to protect others. It doesn’t hurt you, you can breathe through it easily. I’m overweight and wildly out of shape and I can live normally with one on, so why can’t you?! Later I’ll blow my top about this sensitive subject, not now. The thermometer can be used orally, under the armpit or rectally. Probably a strong suggestion to add would be to wipe it off before use. Better idea would be to buy two and clearly label the one being used rectally. So I’m reliving my past twice today.

Since things tend to come in threes according to the witches and sorcerers, let’s bolt on another. Today, along with BDP, I was involved in doing an Xtend training for a customer. That was a soybean biotech trait developed starting back in 2008 and worked on by our group up through 2015 when we finally launched it, after a couple of years of waiting on regulatory approvals in foreign lands. It’s been in the market for years now, well adopted and commonly used. The reason why we were asked to do the training is because they have a lot of new sales folks coming from other parts of the industry who were familiar but hadn’t been formally trained. It was fun and probably good for me to dust that off and teach it again. It had been 2-3 years since I’d been involved training on that particular subject. So there are three things that came about today that were revisiting the past. I think I tied it together.