Weekly update
It's been more than a week since my last post, but you get the idea.
We were debating dinner plans last night, tossing around cuisines and restaurant names, as well as ideas for things that we could make from home. atara floated the idea of lentil soup, and I commented on how I would not object to adding more lentils do our diet. This led to atara pointing out that I had not made mujadara in some time.
When I pulled it out and dusted it off, I discovered that the recipe called for brown lentils, and we only had green ones. They have very different cooking times, but I made do. I had to put the lid back on the pressure cooker and added another three minutes to the time, but it came out perfect after that. I've added notes to the recipe for next time. Even if we'd had brown lentils, the brown basmati rice I used was still too firm after the 10-minute cook time dictated by the recipe.
We had a bit left from last night, so I nuked it this morning for breakfast. I topped it with a fried egg and a light dusting of habanero powder. It probably didn't need the pepper powder. I added it anyway. It was good.
I got a message in Teams on Friday from the manager who brought me on-board with my current contract. He wanted to chat about "non-work related" stuff. Turns out it was work related to the extent that he is quitting. He has nothing else lined up, and no plans beyond doing a bit of travel and spending some time with his family while he plans his next steps. He's not the first to quit during this project, and he won't be the last.
I suspect very strongly that the recent resignations (and upcoming ones that are planned, but that the company doesn't know about yet) all relate to a toxic bully who was recently promoted. He's the kind of person who talks the good talk in the back rooms. Senior management love him, but anyone who has ever had the misfortune to work with, or for him absolutely abhor him. When my contract comes up for renewal in June, I may make renewing it conditional on never having to interact with this person in any way.
We were debating dinner plans last night, tossing around cuisines and restaurant names, as well as ideas for things that we could make from home. atara floated the idea of lentil soup, and I commented on how I would not object to adding more lentils do our diet. This led to atara pointing out that I had not made mujadara in some time.
When I pulled it out and dusted it off, I discovered that the recipe called for brown lentils, and we only had green ones. They have very different cooking times, but I made do. I had to put the lid back on the pressure cooker and added another three minutes to the time, but it came out perfect after that. I've added notes to the recipe for next time. Even if we'd had brown lentils, the brown basmati rice I used was still too firm after the 10-minute cook time dictated by the recipe.
We had a bit left from last night, so I nuked it this morning for breakfast. I topped it with a fried egg and a light dusting of habanero powder. It probably didn't need the pepper powder. I added it anyway. It was good.
I got a message in Teams on Friday from the manager who brought me on-board with my current contract. He wanted to chat about "non-work related" stuff. Turns out it was work related to the extent that he is quitting. He has nothing else lined up, and no plans beyond doing a bit of travel and spending some time with his family while he plans his next steps. He's not the first to quit during this project, and he won't be the last.
I suspect very strongly that the recent resignations (and upcoming ones that are planned, but that the company doesn't know about yet) all relate to a toxic bully who was recently promoted. He's the kind of person who talks the good talk in the back rooms. Senior management love him, but anyone who has ever had the misfortune to work with, or for him absolutely abhor him. When my contract comes up for renewal in June, I may make renewing it conditional on never having to interact with this person in any way.