Monday: rain!

I have umbrellas and rain jackets, so we are fine (umbrella is all we really needed or wanted). We were unable to get on Rise a second day — did exactly what I did the day before, but no go. Oh well! We got on the Mickey railway again, so that was awesome. We did Star Tours a couple times and we also did Toy Story (formerly Midway) Mania again also. We bailed out as the sun came out, and timed our arrival at the bus perfectly — walked onto an air conditioned bus with only one other party. R. dropped us off in the morning. T. did AK, and did every ride but the Safari, which I think was either not running or was mistimed every time he tried to get it. He got both Pandora rides — I was impressed! Got up early for it, tho. Park opened at 8 for him and he was there before open and got in early.

I had an omelette, the greens, the presumably new potatoes (we were never really sure), and reheated last night’s leftover fries. A. had a PB bagel, an apple and some carrots. I’m making bread pudding with eggs, OJ, raisins and the leftover iggy’s bread with some sugar from the coffee making stuff.

I rarely outright disagree with a Matt Levine assement

But when I do . . .

OK, I’m not cool enough to be the beer guy. That’s fine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-19/everyone-loves-the-100-million-new-jersey-deli-except-david-einhorn-knottrmb

Lots of fun stuff here, however, I would like to draw attention to this part:

https://www.ft.com/content/4984410c-e6fe-41d6-9d66-67ee54188f38

HSBC had been making people hot desk, but execs had their own offices on their own floor. Not any more. Now , in theory, the execs would be hot desking with everyone else.

Levine’s assessment amounts to, kinda more fair, except for this: “Hot desking seems unpleasant enough without the risk that one day you might accidentally sit next to the CEO.”

I think he may have missed this bit from the FT article he quoted from and linked to:

“I won’t be in the office five days a week. I think it’s unnecessary . . . It’s the new reality of life.”

The reality here is that the executives are not planning on ever being in the office again. They were only in the office half the time pre-covid, due to travel. They fundamentally never plan on being there again. They will either be in meeting / collaborative space, traveling, or at home. Probably a second or nth home in a very nice climate with delightful amenities.