The weekend preceding Thanksgiving is always spent driving Natasha and Tuey down from New York to Atlanta. Then Natasha goes back to NYC and back again to Atlanta before Christmas. Post-Christmas, I take the reverse trip to get them back. This year, Rohan joined us, too. It was a good thing that I did not have to do the nearly 850 miles of driving all by myself.

It is a bit ironic that FedEx goes to the level of precision to say the delivery window starts at 10 minutes past 9 (not your standard 9 o’clock) and then admits it will be somewhere within a wide range of 4 hours.

Interestingly, if they had said somewhere between 9 and 1 and it had shown up at 1:05, I would not have minded at all. Now that it has set my mind to 9:10-1:10, if it shows up at 1:15, I am going to have a vague feeling that they let me down!

I was reading this somewhere else about how numbers have odd precision interpretation. “It will take me 4 minutes” or “It will take me 6 minutes” conveys a far higher precision than “It will take me 5 minutes”!!

Took Kang Lu’s advice and got Yunnan coffee. Pretty tasty!

Check out the logo on the ice cube. My friend Larry Mason made the mold with 3D Printing!!

The top coffee-producing countries in the world. Who knew Nepal produces coffee? The red ones are the countries from where I have already sourced coffee beans (33 of them). The blue ones are still to go.

We had three young adults, three dogs and the two of us this time. We missed my nephew but he will be here for Christmas.

After dropping Natasha at the airport came back home to this scene. Poor Tuey is sprawled across her bed. I do not think he realizes that she will be back from New York in 2 weeks!