Wednesday

LizzyTish88

@AlPacina You can text me all you want! 

@PamBeesly524 Woohoo!!

AlPacina

@PamBeesly524 - I think your presents sound amazing and hilarious at the same time! You've done great!

@eilis1228 - To be fair, this is only the second time he'll have traveled for work in 3 years, and the other time was to California.

He works for a steel fabrication company and essentially does really precise measurements on enormous parts of boats, nuclear waste containers, dam gates, etc. But these massive parts have tolerances where from end to end they have to be in line by, like, 5-thousandths of an inch. It's insane. He's going to Bahrain to measure something for the military, and then make recommendations on if the part needs to be adjusted to get in tolerance, or not. He thinks it's maybe a couple hours of work. But he'll get paid for all of his travel time!

eilis1228

@AlPacina


That's really cool! 

KeptInStitches

@swazzle, happy anniversary!

@southernpeach89, that's so sweet of your H!

@pambeesly524, glad your work is taking care of its employees!

@lizzytish88, a good gift, but make sure they'll share a last name.

@jenna8984, awesome surprise!

@labro, go productivity!

@untouchablets, good luck with class!

@minskat30, good luck with your assistant.

@futuremrshistorian, I would go anyway.
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I taught my last lectures this morning. Still don't know if I'm continuing to be employed ... I don't want to become a Milton Waddams, so I'm going to try to nail down whether I'm still working sometime today. My students evaluated me for the first time, so I really hope they left me comments on how I can improve.

Tonight is church, and H and I are setting up Communion, so we really need to go (and we haven't been in two weeks so we perhaps really need to go). Otherwise after church we'll probably continue the week-long celebration that has been May the Fourth by watching the part of Star Wars Episode II we fell asleep during and moving on to Episode III. I might try to get some other stuff done, too, but for the life of me I don't know what.

PamBeesly524

So do a lot of you guys do Blue Apron or a similar service? My friend just gave H and I a free week, so we're trying it next week. I'm meh about the meals coming in the first week, but week 2 looks BOMB so we'll probably stick it out. I can't tell if it's worth it cost-wise.

Swazzle

@PamBeesly524 - I tried Blue Apron, Home Chef, Hello Fresh, and Plated. Home Chef was my favorite of the bunch because there were a lot more options and I was able to select meals that were low carb and low calorie to fit better into my WW diet. I also found the recipes tasty, easy to follow, and with less prep time. Home Chef's customer service is also hands down the best of the ones I tried. If they forget 1 ingredient or your delivery gets delayed for any reason at all, they'll make it right by giving you a credit for free meals.

Blue Apron was my second favorite and was actually the first one that I tried. The meals are really good but I think it took me longer to make those and the calorie count was pretty high most of the time.

I did not like Hello Fresh or Plated very much. I tried each of them for 2 weeks or more to give them a fair shot and was disappointed. 

KeptInStitches

We're trying HomeChef - the first week we'll be getting Parisian bistro chicken, wood-fired BBQ chicken pizza, and coconut crusted chicken.

eilis1228

@PamBeesly524 We tried Home Chef and Blue Apron. They were both great, but I agree with all of @Swazzle 's points. I liked the options better on Home Chef, especially the ability to choose lower calorie meals, and the ingredients were always fresher and better packaged. We ultimately canceled due to cost, but we enjoyed both services.

PamBeesly524

Awesome! Maybe after awesome week 2 of Blue Apron we'll give Home Chef a shot.

speakeasy14

@twodimes well it sounds like you were running from something in your dream.  What did you eat and/or watch/read before bed that maybe got you amped up?

labro

@TwoDimes I'll fold your towels anytime. But you have to post a detailed status update about it here!

speakeasy14

TwoDimes said:

speakeasy14 said:

@twodimes well it sounds like you were running from something in your dream.  What did you eat and/or watch/read before bed that maybe got you amped up?

I was watching the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, LOL. Maybe I thought I was running away from a crazy preacher trying to kidnap me and trap me in an underground bunker with a Duggar-like cult?!