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Yesterday started as a delivery fail day. The Wall St Journal wasn't delivered (apparently their error, not the carrier). I missed one bus by about 15 seconds, so I walked to the other bus line. Where I waited for 15 minutes, watching the late bus on the first line go by. I got into work about ten minutes late. No one really cares, but I try to set a good example.

Wednesday is our normal "work pays for lunch" day. One of the partners calls it a free lunch, but 1) there's no such thing; 2) it's company-paid, not free. I look at our books; there's a difference. Said same partner is not an adventurous eater: he's in his 70s and grew up in the Midwest. He eats the exact same thing for lunch every day. So he always defaults to doing lunch at the same place, which is adequate - but it has a limited menu and so I also end up ordering the same thing, because every time I've branched out I've regretted it. I've been trying to enforce changing things around, but it's resulted in him picking a separate place to go each time. That's not what I'm trying to accomplish...

Instead of that usual sandwich lunch, we went out to a sit-down restaurant. We had two birthdays this month as the excuse. I was in a meeting, so I didn't have any input - and so the partner made reservations at a nice local place. Sadly, it's the same sit-down place we've been to the last four times we've gone out. I made a couple mildly snarky remarks about memorizing the menu and I may have made the point. We're in the financial district; we don't lack for choices.

Date: 2018-12-01 07:15 pm (UTC)
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that's a tough situation about the partner and his background and his default choices.

I hope the rest of your week was better. Hugs.

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