Look, I’m not saying things look a little…. unhinged on the world stage at the moment.

I’m just saying that were I still wearing a uniform, I’d be checking the dining facilities for the presence of steak, shrimp, and lobster. I’d also be keeping an eye on mandatory voluntary taskings to appear with politicians.

Just saying.

We have officially reached the comfort food stretch of winter.

Made a huge batch of shepherd’s pie for dinner the other night.

Was feeling a bit restless when my lunch time came up yesterday, so I made a carrot cake from scratch.

Today, I’m toasting rice and cinnamon sticks in the oven so that I can start a batch of horchata.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring. Probably caramel rolls, but who knows?

There’s a saying in military and veteran circles that the elements of the end-of-week safety brief are only included because someone did something stupid and now we all have to be warned not to repeat their mistakes.

I’ve come to believe that mandatory, wide-spread, corporate training follows the same logic. I think this is enhanced by “We got sued/audited/fined, so now we have to show that we’ve told our people to not be stupid/evil to mitigate current and future litigation”.