Midterm

This past week has been all about ramping up for our team’s midterm briefing where the customer will be coming out to basically see what it is we have done with their money.  We have a lot of information, but the rules they have put on us have kept us from getting farther than just some preliminary stuff.  We’re hoping once we talk to them, we can convince them they need to allow us to delve in a little farther.  In the end, we’re all on the same team and letting us in a little more simply gives us more ammunition to create a better final report for them.  Hopefully we can convey that in our presentation.

I decided to join some of my friends here and start the South Beach Diet.  We started on Friday and then I promptly scheduled a pancake party at my house for that very evening.  If you don’t know what South Beach is, it’s basically a low-carb diet which means you can’t eat things like … oh, I don’t know … pancakes.  We still have a lot of pancake mix left over from our ski trip a while back (thank you Krusteaz for making such a huge amount of pancake mix available at Sam’s) and we’ve been trying to use it up.  Friday night we had twelve people over for pancakes, bacon and eggs.  It turns out twelve people can certainly eat their way through a lot of eggs and bacon.

We got quite a few comments on the variety of certain items we had for people to enjoy.  Because (when I can eat them) I like pancakes with peanut butter on them, we had a few things for people to put on their flapjacks.  In addition to the simple butter approach, we had Nutella, Natural Almond Butter, Natural Peanut Butter and Skippy Peanut Butter.  That in addition to the numerous types of bacon made people wonder if we had planned it for this party or if those were just items we kept in stock.  For the butters, those are things we keep on hand.  One of the roommates likes Skippy, another likes Nutella Natural Peanut Butter and I like Nutella and Almond Butter so when we went to Walmart for the essentials, those are the items we picked up.  The next logical question was about the bacons.  I’m partial to turkey bacon or Canadian bacon (which is simply glorified ham) and one of the roommates refuses to eat anything but “the real thing” when it comes to bacon so we have to keep regular bacon on hand.  I think he should just be able to tough it out and conform, but he’s not having that.