Today I am working from home (and tomorrow too). Working from home can be fun, but when it comes to the work itself, unless you have the right set up (which I don’t), it’s not as fun. I handle a lot of data and definitely need, at least, one massive monitor, I usually have two at work. I wonder if they’d let me bring a monitor from work to keep at home for this instances? I know for sure we have both an extra monitor and a docking station. Who knows? Don’t loose anything by asking I guess.

Also going back and forth between the the work computer (and HP EliteBook) and my MacBook Pro, it is so weird!

Name: Sunbeam
Style: American Imperial IPA
Brewer: Sockeye Grill & Brewery - Idaho, United States
ABV: 8.5
IBU:
Rating: 4.5/5
Notes:

Golden orange in color with a white, pillowy head. Aromas of soft pine and unpeeled oranges; no discernible malt aroma. Light pineapple flavor with strong alcohol presence. Citrus zest and pinecone flavors to finish. The body is full but soft with medium-high carbonation. The alcohol flavor clings to everything else going on.

Pretty accurate description/notes.

Pokémon Shield

I cannot say I am diehard Pokémon fan. Actually my first interaction with anything Pokémon related was the first TV Series, back in Puerto Rico, I remember. Then I remember playing Pokémon Stadium on the Nintendo 64 and much much later Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Pearl specifically on the Nintendo DS. Then nothing else until Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu!.

If you fallow this mediocre blog of mine you would know that I have been traveling for work, thus I have had some time for myself. I have been playing a lot of Pokémon Shield and I love it! Yes, like any other Pokémon game it can feel a little repetitive at times but still keeping my interest in it. Like I have said before I don’t have a lot of experience with these series of games but I can definitely tell some of the improvements they have done in this game compared to some of the past games. Not gonna get into the details, this is not a review just me saying “I fucking love this game!” (😅).

Anyway, if you’re a Pokémon fan, you’ll definitely want to pick this game up and even if you’re not, its still a fun game to play.

Next on the queue it’s STAR OCEAN first departure R, which is a remake, of course.

I’m too lazy to write well

If I had to sit and plan and overthink everything before I hit Publish, I’d never write anything. Most of the time I quickly fire off a few paragraphs, publish, and only then proofread what I’ve written. Yeah, that’s backwards, but it’s easy and I prefer easy.

I can so relate to this at a spiritual level! There have been many times where I ask myself if I should elaborate more or put more effort into what I am trying to convey and then I go, “meh, I’ve said what I wanted to say”.

Name: High Five IPA
Style: American IPA
Brewer: Fort Myers Brewing Company - Fort Myers, Florida
ABV: 5.9
IBU:
Rating: 5/5
Notes:

Pours orange/yellow color, minimal head. Malty, citrusy, slightly dank, bitter. It’s not mind blowing but it’s nice and cold and I am pretty hot. Maybe why I rated a 5.

Name: Peanut Butter Cup
Style: Stout
Brewer: Naples Beach Brewery - Naples, Florida
ABV: 5.8
IBU:
Rating: 5/5
Notes: A smooth and creamy stout with peanut butter and chocolate flavors

Name: Latitude Adjustment IPA
Style: American Indian Pale Ale
Brewer: Naples Beach Brewery - Naples, FL
ABV: 7.2
IBU:
Rating: 4.5/5
Notes:

A hoppy and bitter American pale ale with malt character and a dry finish

Second day in Naples, well, more like second field day in Naples. It was a short day , quote and quote, we only had a few small readings to do. One of them I was asked by The expert, and old-man that has been doing this for years and that I am fortunate to have the chance to have met and learn a thing or two from before he retires on April 2020, to go ahead and do the reading. He said, “Gaby I have been doing this since forever. Why don’t you go ahead and point out what do you see different?”. To which I asked. “Is this a test?” In tone of a joke of course, then he said. “Nope, not a test, we are training you. Go on ahead and if you miss anything, we’ll stop you”. Of course I freaked out inside of me a little (😅). It’s kinda weird when you get put on the spot like that. And of course, I have never done this before, so I wasn’t too afraid to ask as many questions, especially to someone that has so much knowledge.

Anyway, I go on and start reading the plot, looking for subtle differences in the plants 🌱, along with my clicker to keep count of how many I saw. Every time I saw one that I wasn’t sure I’ll point it out and he would tell me whether it was what we were looking for or no. The ones I pointed out that I was sure of them still confirmed with him and I was pretty accurate in my assessment. According to him I didn’t miss one and like I’ve said, the ones that I wasn’t a hundred percent sure we both looked at them just in case.

Then after that the site was having done kind of a field day for other people, business kind of people. I got to meet more people from the company that are usually in different parts of the country and only interact by email. Learned about why they do and how my work and the data I provide affects theirs. Very awesome stuff.

This has been an amazing experience, again, it puts in a different perspective to everything I do from the computer with the data I am provided with. The challenges and complexity of field grow-outs, and the complexity of the vegetables business.

And so, the Naples trip is a wrap. Tomorrow I head back to the 208’s (Idaho). Good I kinda miss my family.

(Side note: At one point during one of our readings, we were looking at some squash plants — zucchini squash. So they [the fruit] are supposed to be yellow, so off types they’d have some green when they aren’t supposed to, like they were starting to turn green. To which I said, “HULK SQUASH” and they didn’t get it (🤦🏻‍♂️). Sad — a wasted joke (😅).