Have you ever had a day so challenging, you didn’t know what to do with yourself? That was my day today. Stuff at work is supposed to ease off after tax day, but boy this year is different. It’s not just my workload either, talking to a friend on another team, they’ve been inundated as well…and everyone seems to be in a crabby mood.

Yesterday afternoon, I had the idea to pack up the sourdough starter I’ve been working on, along with the other ingredients for bread and my little bread maker and take it to the office this morning. I’d put the machine in an empty office near me (some co-workers are still remote) so I could keep an eye on it. So while things pretty much sucked, at least we got to smell baking bread most of the morning. I get in so early it was done by about 9:30am. A co-worker brought butter and jam and folks seemed to enjoy it. I had no appetite because of the type of day/week it’s been, so I didn’t have any. Smelled good though!

I love feeding the people I care about and I work with some pretty great ones.

By the way, maybe it’s the sourdough starter recipe I’ve been following, but jeez, I’m not sure it’s worth all this work/waste of flour. 2 feedings a day, every 12 hours, discarding all but 113 grams (1/2 cup) each time??!!?? And the bread recipe I have asks for A LOT of starter so I have to have 2 batches going at a time.  I think I’ll use up what I have going and freeze the loaf or something.  Now that I know what I’m doing, I can always start again.

Tomorrow is Friday and the office should be pretty empty. Hopefully, we can close out the week better than how we started.