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Done for the evening. We ate around 3:00. The person we have on that shift recently had back surgery so Jen went down to help her stock beer &c. This was a good thing as we were slammed -- our daily CID was about three times what a normal slow season cash in drawer would be for a Thursday. (It is unseasonably warm the last few days so the ski area is operating with minimal services.) One thing that always surprises us is the number of people who cannot cook -- they can follow a recipe but if we are out of one ingredient (canned sweet potatoes in this case) they do not know how to get a real sweet potato, nuke it, slide the skin off and use it in the recipe just like the canned version. Probably tastes a lot better too... The store was open until 6:00 so after I did a load of dishes and drove my Dad back to his condo and gave him his evening medications, I headed back and helped Jen for the last hour or so. The turkey was amazing -- not as tender as a butterball but this was a "real" bird that got to peck bugs and run around in the grass with its fellow critters. Her muscles got used a lot more than a bird that spends its life cooped up in a 3X3 pen for 90% of its life. The flavor of the pan drippin's and the gravy was pure ambrosia. We raise chickens and eat them -- will have to try a turkey one of these days... Got a fire going in the DaveCave(tm) so it will be nice and toasty in an hour so I'll surf for a bit and then check email and work on some stuff (rearranging the music equipment and commissioning another computer for doing video editing).