Turdsday

Thursday was the scheduled second half of the soybean discussions. I was up before the sun and got to witness it’s first peak into the world, it was beautiful. I took a photo from upstairs but the window and screen ruined it. I finished my morning routine and hustled to the front door to get another shot of it. It was further along but no less spectacular. If you can’t take some time to appreciate the little things in life then what are you even doing?

I had a fast breakfast of a yogurt and a lot of water. I knew that I wouldn’t be getting up much today so I’d want to be good and hydrated early on. The meeting started promptly at eight with a short musical interlude to get the team’s energy up right away. We moved through things well but it was going to be another long day of discussing soybean varieties. There was only a short break for lunch so I nuked a couple of Stouffer’s Bistro Crustini Meatball and Mozzerella paninis and hustled back into the fray. The afternoon was just more meeting. When dinner rolled around I was well hungry and decided to go with a full bag of tots in lieu of a more complicated dinner that was planned. I dumped some shredded cheese on them and doused them in sriracha ranch dipping sauce. It was very tasty but it was also pretty heavy, some would argue that it was too heavy but remember that I had a light breakfast and a normal lunch so wanted to have enough fuel replenishment and reserves to go the distance.

When the dust settled though, the meeting didn’t go that much longer than planned. I did though. I worked a ways into the night to keep caught up on daily items that inevitably fall to the sidelines when you are in an all day meeting. When I finally powered down it was after eight. I anticipate this is the beginning for such behaviour unfortunately. I used the remainder of the evening to listen to my book, MSF and eventually some YouTube videos before bed. I was trying to learn about video editing software but didn’t get very far before I passed out.